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FPSC Classic Models and Media / Illumination

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Ezykeyal
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Posted: 18th May 2007 23:44
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Hi,

I've created a ceiling lamp.
What I want is to have the bulbs be illuminated (to make them appear bright).
I tried many things to make the illumination.fx to work but I can't seem to figure it out.
How does one do it?

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X Games
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Posted: 19th May 2007 01:01
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snapshot maybe, it could be that texture needs to be bright!

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Ezykeyal
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Posted: 19th May 2007 04:49
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Ah yes, sorry.
Well a shadow is being cast on the bulbs itself which should not be.

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Gamers Gear
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Posted: 19th May 2007 04:51
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Just add alot of lights around the bulbs, works for me anyway...

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gps
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Posted: 19th May 2007 05:41
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For a static entity you need to use the shader 'illuminationmap.fx'

You'll need this line in your light's .fpe file...

effect = effectbank\illuminationmap\illuminationmap.fx

...and of course an illumination map

Remember to give your map the 'I' suffix, for instance 'light_I.tga' (assuming you texture map is 'light_D2.tga')

Hope this helps.

- Graham

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FredP
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Posted: 19th May 2007 05:46
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How do you make an illumination map?

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Ezykeyal
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Posted: 19th May 2007 13:44 Edited at: 19th May 2007 13:45
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gps, that's exactly what I did and it fails to work for some reason.

I have 2 tga's, one is the actual texture for the entire lamp and another one that is completely black with only the light color in the right place which serves as the illumination map.

That's how it should work logically but I learned that nothing works logically in fps creator.
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Strelok
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Posted: 19th May 2007 14:28
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Quote: "How do you make an illumination map?"

I think just like bump you only have two color...with will not cast shadow and black will do.
You can find a example at...
D:\program files\The Game Creators\FPS Creator\Files\texturebank\scifi\scenery\furniture\terminalA
then look at the terminal_a_I
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Roger Wilco
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Illumination maps in FPSC works sort of like alpha-maps, if you load up the texture and paint the bulb all white and the rest of the entity black, the bulb will show up not being affected by the shadows. You need to save the illumination map to a different file, called texture_I.tga for example. I find that when I use _I after the filename, it works quite well.

Also, if you're doing the illumination map in photoshop, make sure you don't save the file as a grayscale. PS likes converting files automatically if they don't contain any color information.

Hope this helped, at least a bit.

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FredP
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Thanks for the info.

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Oakley Design
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I have tried creating an illumination map but with no success.
My colour texture is 'console1_D2.dds'. The illumination map is 'console1_I.dds'.

At first I got nothing, then suddenly it worked but the texture was randomly overlayed over the object which looked weird. Now it has gone completely as well as the colour map, leaving me with a big black blob on my screen! I have enabled full shader effects, the texture paths are correct, I have used the correct .FX shader... what is going wrong!?

Can anybody help?

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