Lighting Question

Hi,
running the Paul Gerfen's light demo from the B3D samples, I wonder, how to get rid of the diagonal lines which appears on the cube surfaces when using spot lights ?

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That diagonal lines are the separation between the triangles of each surface, and appears also when using only one light.

Is it possible to have a more homogeneous colouring on the surface ?

Thanks in advance,
Sergio.

you cant using blitz lights- they use vertex lighting and basically each trinagle is filled with fading colours from each vertex- this means you will get the giagonal line between the two triangles.


Look into lightmapping your level- its not as hard as you may think, if you have the right tools!

Thanks, but the level lightmapping does not dynamic lightmapping, while the blitz light engine does.

I mean, if I turn the cubes, I have to recalculate the lightmapping, which requires time. Instead, using the built in lights results faster.

Sergio.

Isee, you need the dynamic side of things...
then i suppose the only answer is to have a higher poly cube (16 quads pur surface or something)... its nt recomended but it may help remove those lines.

Found the way:
EntityFx entity, 4 ;flatshaded

Simple, isn't it ?

Sergio.

of course! that works with cubes... but dont use it on anything rounded though! Hopefully, should you use rounder objects, you wont notice the lines anyway! :D

Great news you got around it though ,dont know why i didnt think of it.