[StratComm]

Originally posted by Hades


Excuse my ignorance, but is that?

EDIT: supposed to be what is that?

It means that a texture will be lit up in certain spots, like windows or self-illuminated pieces (the red on shivan ships for example) regardless of the level lighting.  The effect is most impressive when combined with a low ambience level, so that the contrast on the lights is high.  An example by Vyper:

[Eviscerator]

[Bobboau]

actualy when I said
"to get a texture to be full bright non-lit add "-amb" to it's name"

that was a diferent effect, were the texture will render without lighting, unlike glow mapping wich has a multipass effect to create glowing sections of a texture (as opposed to the entire thing), it renders a bit faster than the glow mapping, but isn't anywere near as good looking

to have a glow mapped texture, make a version of the base texture that looks as the parent texture should if it had no external lighting (see the glow texture pack for some examples)
then name it "name_of_base_texture"-glow

and for thouse who can't see it look at the pick with the deimos, without my effect you would not be able to see the windows

[Carl]

will the animated texture thing work with laser effects?

[Bobboau]

it might, I implemented it but only did basic stability tests, and don't remember if it got commited, one good way would be to make an ani and reference it to a weapon

[CP5670]

Looks like I missed this thread before; is this the same glow-map effect that used to be there in FS1 with Glide? I really, really liked that thing and was hoping that you guys might be able to get it back into the game. Need to try this out...

[Bobboau]

no, it's a lot better, it is actualy mapped not just color keyed, you will need to DL the map pack to get it to work

[Raptor]

Link in first post, right?