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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: DaBrain on November 26, 2007, 05:50:04 pm

Title: The best light settings for FS2 with shaders
Post by: DaBrain on November 26, 2007, 05:50:04 pm

I'm interested in which settings you use once we got shader support.

Of course I'm talking mostly about ships that already have a normal map.


I prefer the Doom3/UT3 look, so I set mine to: -no_emissive_light -ogl_spec 30 -ambient_factor 25
The metal surfaces really look like metal with these settings imho.


Edit: This is also nice:
-no_emissive_light -ogl_spec 50 -ambient_factor 80

I kinda have to use that for levels with a red sun. Otherwise everything is completely red...

Title: Re: The best light settings for FS2 with shaders
Post by: spartan_0214 on November 26, 2007, 09:44:53 pm

Erm. How exactly do you change the ambient_factor?  :shaking:

Title: Re: The best light settings for FS2 with shaders
Post by: Herra Tohtori on November 26, 2007, 10:36:25 pm

Custom command line arguments (Launcher->Features).

Title: Re: The best light settings for FS2 with shaders
Post by: nubbles526 on November 27, 2007, 10:00:09 am

My command lines are

-ambient_factor 20 -ogl_spec 30 -no_emissive_light -spec_exp 11 -spec_point 0.6 -spec_static 0.8 -spec_tube 0.4

Thanks to DaBrain, didn't understand what the ogl_spec used to be for!

Title: Re: The best light settings for FS2 with shaders
Post by: fsphiladelphia on January 10, 2008, 07:14:20 pm

Quote from: DaBrain on November 26, 2007, 05:50:04 pm

I prefer the Doom3/UT3 look, so I set mine to: -no_emissive_light -ogl_spec 30 -ambient_factor 25
The metal surfaces really look like metal with these settings imho.

Any screens with these specific settings to demonstrate the 'metal-ness' of the look?