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Rarsonic Full Member Offline FOR AN UNREAL 227 WITH UTF-16! Posts: 106 qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm Gender:	Using Sunlight 04/06/11 at 22:14:44 I've been snooping through the new editor supplied by the new Unreal 227g patch and I have noticed the new light actors "DistanceLight" and "SunLight". DistanceLight seems to work like a charm, but using SunLight renders the map black when rebuilding. Is it bugged or does it need to be used in a special way?
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Jâçkrâßßit God Member Offline Posts: 811 USA Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #1 - 04/07/11 at 01:16:51 I think that is only a special "sun" corona effect, but I could be wrong. I also messed with Distance Light and I found it quite useful in one of my maps...
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Re: Using Sunlight
Reply #2 - 04/07/11 at 08:13:30

Rarsonic wrote on 04/06/11 at 22:14:44:

I've been snooping through the new editor supplied by the new Unreal 227g patch and I have noticed the new light actors "DistanceLight" and "SunLight". DistanceLight seems to work like a charm, but using SunLight renders the map black when rebuilding. Is it bugged or does it need to be used in a special way?

Differences to normal DistantLight:
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Set TO HIGH Radius, seriously no map might need such a big sunlight radius ever. I guess this needs to be corrected in 227h as well. I remember this small issue but forgot about it, but I told dots, so I guess he forgot about it as well.
Just check the code you will see that this thing is not any different to the normal DistantLight, he created it for those who dont know to use the DistantLightActor. P.S: I am not joking, that thing has no special intended purpose.

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Rarsonic Full Member Offline FOR AN UNREAL 227 WITH UTF-16! Posts: 106 qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #3 - 04/07/11 at 11:50:10 Heh, alright Creavion. Thanks! My project will surely benefit from big lights!
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.:..: Developer Team Offline Posts: 1239 Finland Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #4 - 04/08/11 at 06:04:26 Sunlights are directional, they illuminate down from skybox at the direction of the sunlight actor. PS: UT2004 Sunlights have no special purpose eighter.
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Rarsonic Full Member Offline FOR AN UNREAL 227 WITH UTF-16! Posts: 106 qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #5 - 04/08/11 at 18:22:03 So SunLights have to be placed in the skybox in order for these actors to work?
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.:..: Developer Team Offline Posts: 1239 Finland Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #6 - 04/09/11 at 07:51:27 Rarsonic wrote on 04/08/11 at 18:22:03: So SunLights have to be placed in the skybox in order for these actors to work? The location of the actor does not matter, only direction.
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Rarsonic Full Member Offline FOR AN UNREAL 227 WITH UTF-16! Posts: 106 qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #7 - 04/09/11 at 13:02:53 Yeah, I checked it out a while ago. Works wonderfully. Even though I don't think I will be able to use this feature, as my project uses multiple skyboxes... Edited: Oh wait, reducing the SunLight's radius solves the problem.
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Re: Using Sunlight
Reply #8 - 01/25/12 at 10:19:23

I'm trying to make NyLeve use sunlights now, and there's a slight problem with that... For some reason, even though CSG geometry is lit properly, meshes are dark:

Any idea about what is going on there? I tried both adding them in the skybox and adding them into the map itself, the result is the same.

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Oh, oops, it appears that I have to do a complete rebuild, geometry and all, to make it affect meshes!

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Hellkeeper Oldunreal MasterPoster Offline Posts: 1816 France Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #9 - 01/25/12 at 13:17:01 GreatEmerald wrote on 01/25/12 at 10:19:23: [...]even though CSG geometry is lit properly, [...] I'd say on your screenshot everything looks quite bad: there are almost no shadows on BSP objects : look at the house, its walls are dark but the floor around it is entirely lit...
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GreatEmerald Oldunreal MasterPoster Offline The Great Emerald Posts: 5196 Vilnius, Lithuania Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #10 - 01/25/12 at 13:19:31 No, that's because of the gamma correction applied to screenshots... The screenshot doesn't look nearly like it looks on my screen, unfortunately.
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Hellkeeper Oldunreal MasterPoster Offline Posts: 1816 France Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #11 - 01/26/12 at 12:21:57 GreatEmerald wrote on 01/25/12 at 13:19:31: No, that's because of the gamma correction applied to screenshots... The screenshot doesn't look nearly like it looks on my screen, unfortunately. Oh, good then.
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Gizzy God Member Offline Typical Brit. Posts: 644 United Kingdom Gender:	Re: Using Sunlight Reply #12 - 01/26/12 at 13:56:01 I remember someone making a Nyleve edit with some badass sunlight actors in, I wish I still had that Also
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