PZ Lights

Post by **trepan** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:35 pm

Stationary world-weapon phantom
zone shots used as scene lights.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:48 pm

Cool, I needed some of those lights for my map

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:55 pm

Say, how would one go about making objects glow? I need to have light on my dark map.

toaster · Post by **toaster** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:09 pm

Pretty nice, Trepan. Good application.

Post by **trepan** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:50 pm

RPG: the easiest way to get "glowing" objects
is to use the emission material property. I used
a modified bzfs exec to produce the stationary
shots (also has the mods for zone activated
world weapons =)

wegstar · Post by **wegstar** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:42 pm

mods for zone activated
world weapons

wow.. i'm getting ideas

Soraya · Post by **Soraya** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:03 pm

Pretty sweet trepan.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:58 pm

I can't get emissions to work right... Can you PM me the map file?

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:08 pm

The mesh glows the emission color, but I can't see the light on any other of the nearby meshes or the ground.

Post by **trepan** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:33 pm

emission won't affect any other objects, it's not supposed to.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:43 am

Then how did you get your grass to turn yellowish and the reflection of the two lights in the four spheres?

Post by **trepan** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:47 am

(re-)read the first post in this topic.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:55 am

Oh the zoned shots are what's creating the light. That would be a good feature, glowing objects, though.

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:15 pm

That's awesome.

M1A2AbramsTank · Post by **M1A2AbramsTank** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:12 pm

trepan, how come it's always u that comes up with all the really cool, really new map objects?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:21 pm

because he was the developer who MADE most of the realy cool new map object features.

M1A2AbramsTank · Post by **M1A2AbramsTank** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:53 pm

geez, now u peeps tell me, why am i always out of the loop!?!

Soraya · Post by **Soraya** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:39 pm

I had no idea either... I feel unloved!

haha! all better now!

Lirael_Goldenhand · Post by **Lirael_Goldenhand** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:17 pm

Wow, awesome idea! If ever I make my own maps again, I'll need to steal your idea... maybe make a few streetlamps in a BZ city or something. Anyway, awesome application of the shots!

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:26 am

Lirael_Goldenhand, you need a modified BZFS binary to make those shots. Trepan would have to hook you up with his.

wegstar · Post by **wegstar** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:38 pm

ah well.. probably will be out on the next version

TD-Linux · Post by **TD-Linux** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:01 pm

Are these new features (zone-activated world weapons) included in the v2.0.3 version?

Post by **trepan** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:55 pm

Nope, they've been replaced with JeffM's server-side
plugins. I deleted all of my mods intended for 2.0.4.

BIYA · Post by **BIYA** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:53 am

Trepan would this "Emission" be related to the material object in wings3D?

TD-Linux · Post by **TD-Linux** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:40 pm

I believe the plugin converter utilizes the 'emission' value included in materials. When you define materials, there is a slider and color box for emission. That should work, but note that I have not tested it.

Wings3D and bzw seem to handle objects about the same, so I think any of the material options would apply in Bzflag.