Beam of light problems with portals and DIF walls.

#1 1. My first thought is to eliminate internal portals, but some of our Interiors are very large, like a mall and a school. We could still do it, but I'm hoping for other ideas.

2. A ridiculous hack I thought of would be to "coat" each and every wall of the DIF with a DTS object. (See what I mean by ridiculous). ;)

I just posted this to show I'm receptive to ANY ideas.

Thanks!

Tony

#2 I basically have the same problem (with TGE), but my understanding is that you can restrict lights to particular zones with TLK lights. So if different rooms in your DIF are portaled off, you could potentially keep the lights from crossing zones.

#3 Thanks Rubes, but that's actually the opposite of what I want. I want the light to cross zones. So short of removing portals (which also removes the darkness), I'm at a loss.

Thanks!
Tony

#4 Switch to DTS would be my suggestion, but you'd also run into the self-shadowing problem unless either you get self-shadowing working in TGE (which has been done, back in 1.3 at least) or get TGEA.

#5 Thanks Daniel,

I'll do a search for the 1.3 mod, but does TGEA support self-shadowing DIF's? I didn't know that. The flashlight I'm working on is actually for TGEA (not my own 1.5.2 project).

Tony

#6 Not DIFs, but DTS shapes self-shadow, as far as I can tell. It certainly looks that way from the Barricade demo (the Player recieves shadows of itself from the sun). I haven't tried testing with dynamic lights, etc. I reccomend you play around with the Barricade demo.