GuiObjectView Update: Lighting Support

#1 Great stuff john :)

#2 thanke john, atleast i am getting some lighting inside my game ;)

on a more serious note, i have added this to the advanced guiobjectview resource and beffy's guiobjectview and it works just fine. on both.

Ori.

#3 Thanks guys, just adding a little onto a resource thats already outstanding.

-John

#4 Anyone else have a problem with objects showing up after merging with the TGE 1.3 changes?

Everything seemed fine until I merged the changes in the player.cc/.h files made on 8-30-04. Now the objects don't appear.

Edit: Never Mind. There's a thread in the forums about it that takes care of the problem.

#5 Hi Sabrecyd,

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#6 Thanks John.

I did see your new plan for the Lighting Pack (cool btw). It turned out it's not a lighting problem anyway. It was something in a different recent update for 1.3. Here's a link to the problem and fix.

guiObjectProblem

#7 This is okay if you're using it before you load any missions but we're popping it up mid-game... and it blows all the lights out if you use it as-is.

At the end, under "lightManager->removeLight(&light);" you need to add this line:

lightManager->resetGL();

#8 This works nicely. Just a small comment: We use 2 of these controls, one in the startup GUI, and one in-game. The second of these controls will ignore its light settings and use the default settings. Changing the line lightManager->setMaxGLLights(1); into lightManager->setMaxGLLights(2); fixes this. Not sure if it breaks something else in the game, but it works good enough for us so far.

Thanx for the patch!
/Bjarne

* EDIT *
Naturally it broke :S
Any control started after the first one has overbright settings...
* EDIT AGAIN *
Hmm... after finding some parts of the LP that was not properly migrated: All works nice with lightManager->setMaxGLLights(1); and the lightManager->resetGL(); addition.

#9 Wicked good ... works great with the player select resource, too! :)

#10 For some reason my lighting is all ambient light. There is no shading. Changing the lighting direction or light color doesn't have any effect. What's going on?

#11 Weird the resource content is missing - looks like one of the site updates nuked it. :/

Scott, how did you apply this? The content explaining the process is missing.

Also what version of the engine are you using?