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Category:	DOOM III Level Design D3 mapping and level design.
Moderators:	foyleman, rEdrUmMDK, Foxhound, PleaseMYOB, batistablr, Welshy

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Topic: "J" Button :D

minusmojo

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004 03:54 pm
I dont know if this is coved in a tut yet - but this is the shiznit. select a light - hit "j" you can now completely modify the light's properties - add strobes, change it's projection angle, add fog, a milion possibilities - AS WELL AS - a very important one - Shadowing - we all know D3 is great because of realtime lighting and shadows, BUT every light does NOT need to make them - this little window will let you make some lights NOT have shadows - Why would you want to do that? Performance. If you need to light an area just to see, you may want to leave it without a shadow - then in accent areas, where you can see a source for the light (like a lamp or other visable light souce) use a light that makes shadows, to emphasise the scene. The point is this - You want people to play your map right? - they are more likely to play it if it runs well - this is a great optimising tool - Shadows are great, but think about exactly where you REALLY need them. (forgive the rambling, just wanted to share this new tidbit I found)

nemek

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004 04:02 pm
i could neva get fog 2 work right, and it depends what key/vals u put in for the light, like key/val light_radius / 128 128 128 that effects it aswell, also u cant change what the light looks like, e.g, a lamp, wall light or what eva, i cant find those anywhere, so i have 2 use the same modal for all my lights lol, i think a light/fog tut is needed :P

TheJuice

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004 06:04 pm
there is a light/fog tutorial, its one of the ones provided by MNeMiC. It doesn't cover much more than basic fog though.

DEATHGIGAS

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004 10:43 am
Light editors great. Can only to get it to work when running the editor in windowed mode though. Hope this and the antialising problems are sorted out in a patch.

WrecklessNinja

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004 07:39 pm
When I press J after selecting a light, nothing happens. Do I have some mode on/off or something that isn't supposed to be?

foyleman

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004 09:59 pm
you click the grid area first?
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WrecklessNinja

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004 10:56 pm
I'll try that, but the light is definitely selected. It won't even work right after I add the light entity and the light is selected.

minusmojo

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Friday, Aug. 27, 2004 01:30 am
I always use it in the "cam" window, I have seen it not show up other times - same with the suface inspector, if I'm not in the cam windo it will not show up when i hit "s" but then again I have things set up a bit differently see... my setup

foyleman

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Friday, Aug. 27, 2004 07:46 am
that looks like a two monitor setup. I can't do that because when I share monitors with the editor, I can't see the grid and other things in the editor. I bet you are using dual monitor with a single video card because I am using two video cards (agp and pci).
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minusmojo

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Category: DOOM III Level Design Posted: Friday, Aug. 27, 2004 08:09 am
Yeah 2 monitors - works nice - I dont feel as crampe as I used to, and I like a big "cam" window