A Sun
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| If I want to put a sun in a 3D world, do I have to use a sprite or can I intencify a light? |
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| Use a sprite. |
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| Thanks for the confirmation. |
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| I have done it with a big Sphere at a distance, then particle candied an emmiter onto it, to make an aroura. This was only for "Show", and the light was a seperate light entity |
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| I see. Then how do I make really vivid shadows? |
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| I dont know. Never bothered with shadows. It was as I said just for "Show". Lot of games dont "need" shadows. |
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| Thanks for your help H&K. Ya, now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever seen a Blitz game with shadows. |
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| You should really look up Swifts shadow library for really good shadows or look into the newer stencil shadow stuff being offered by our Russian colleagues. IPete2. |
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| I will when I get towards the finishing stages of my game. (Right now I'm only working on landscapes.) Thanks everyone for all your help and ideas. |
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| "H&K" I have done it with a big Sphere at a distance, then particle candied an emmiter onto it, to make an aroura. This was only for "Show", and the light was a seperate light entity It should be a source of problem, that you 'll have to specify a big range for your camera. => why not Making a small sphere ( sprite? ), and position it every frame around the camera ( just have to specify a great EntityOrder for it is "drawn" after the rest of the scene ) , like a skybox ? |
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| @Bobysait, I dont really have b3d, but I had a month when I had acccess to Particle candy, Terrered, easyTok and b3d. And that was the solution I had in the short time I had to use b3d. And the big sphere at a distance, was moved everyframe relative to the camera point. If I had had longer then I might, as you said, just sprite onto the skybox. But I dindnt, and It worked, (ish). |
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