Add a new lighting model for mesh

[sn260591]

Maybe should add Phong shading model? Gouraud shading sometimes looks really bad:

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[Smirftsch]

this is a topic discussed in many ways here in the forums already. It's no (feasible) option at all unless not moving huge parts of the rendering system from the CPU to the GPU, which again is a humongous task.

[sn260591]

I thought the lighting of meshes is hardware, because the line in the source code d3d9drv:

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m_d3dDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_SHADEMODE, D3DSHADE_GOURAUD);

So, if you replace D3DSHADE_GOURAUD on D3DSHADE_PHONG, then it will not work?

[han]

In the default Unreal Engine 1 form, the RenderDevice does not know where the light originated, which is a requirement for Phong. If you use forward shading on hardware by walking through some actor list, you can't handle amount of light sources in reasonable time. So you need some deferred lighting approach.. and even getting shit sorted before you can even thing about adding that is a tremendous task..

[Turboman.]

This sounds like an overly complicated feature to implement (i'd rather have lightmaps on meshes instead for that matter).

But on the topic of mesh lighting, the current implementation still has some flaws that i hope to see fixed some day, for example on large staticmesh terrain dynamic lighting only works near the pivot, a few thousand UU further you cannot light the terrain with your dispersionpistol or flashlight anymore!