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Offline TopAce

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Can explosions give light?
The Mystery picture #09 in the Machina Terra forum gave me an inspiration: Would it be possible that explosions emitted some light? I think this is called dynamic light.
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Offline FireCrack

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Can explosions give light?
Yes, we needy!!!!!!!!!

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Offline Turambar

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Can explosions give light?
no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is a good idea
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Offline Fineus

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Can explosions give light?
Out of interest, could we have this appliable to a table... I'd kinda like to see flare-out applied to explosions as well as the suns in-mission. In theory if the explosion is bright enough you'd have to shield your eyes.. same as looking at the sun!

 

Offline Carl

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Can explosions give light?
errr, don't they already give light? i'm pretty sure they give off dynamic lighting just as lasers do.
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Offline Falcon

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Can explosions give light?
Take a flash-light and turn it on, aim it at the exposion on your monitor, there's your dynamic light....... ;)
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Offline Turambar

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Can explosions give light?
i wish we could have colored ambent light coming off nebulas, and inside the nebulas, that would be the ****, and would make it all nice and moody
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Offline DaBrain

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Can explosions give light?
Quote
Originally posted by Carl
errr, don't they already give light? i'm pretty sure they give off dynamic lighting just as lasers do.


Yeah, I think so.

The dynamic lightning in FS2 is weird though.
Sometimes it applies and sometimes not.
I don't get it.
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Offline Bobboau

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Can explosions give light?
they give off light already.
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Offline Lynx

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Can explosions give light?
Hey bob, is that explosion flash thing already activated? I remember you talking about it some time ago.
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Offline Bobboau

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it should be
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Can explosions give light?
The flag's certainly hanging around.

And let me take the time to remind people there's basically an 8 light limit for light applying to things as well.
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Offline Bobboau

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Can explosions give light?
no there isn't, we've taken care of that, we have a multi-pass lighting model, if it can't handle the number of lights we want we just do as many as the hardware will alow for in a number of additive passes.
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Can explosions give light?
Ooh, nifty...I didn't know that.

How much of a slowdown does that do? (Does this mean your work on the texturing system is done btw?)
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Offline Bobboau

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Can explosions give light?
it's been like that almost sence the begining, it was like item #2 when doing the inital HT&L upgrade ('T' then 'L'), there is very little slowdown because there is rarely more lights than a card can handle.
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Offline Nuke

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Can explosions give light?
i want dynamic lighting on some glowpoints, probibly use type 2 (dynamic glow) and 3 (dynamic beam). golor would be determined based on the bitmap used. on the subject of adding glowpoint types, type 4 (particle spewer point) :D
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Offline aldo_14

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Can explosions give light?
Was the 'flare' on explosions ever implemented (blow up ship, flash blinds you ala a star)?  I think it was, but I'm not sure what the flags or whatnot were.

 

Offline Bobboau

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Can explosions give light?
ship flag of "flash" should cause said ship to blind you when it explodes and you are close to it.
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Offline Trivial Psychic

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Can explosions give light?
That could be useful on weapon impacts and FREDed explosions.
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Offline Taristin

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Can explosions give light?
*goes to add "flash" to the meson bombs and play "A Flaming Sword'*
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