Community Challenge: Level Art [Oct 2015]

[WALP]

Man, thank god for that - saves me a fuck ton of time then. The problem with the bills still being active on some laps even after it being set to unlit persists though which is still a problem, but not worth bothering over.

Could you elaborate on which lamps are "some laps", one example should be enough. I originally checked the other lamp with a different solution in mind, but things turned out to be much easier luckily. Know that increasing the brightness of illum will increase the glow effect as well, so big glow does not necessarily mean billboard, only way to be sure is opening in model editor.

Still, I wonder why it's set to two different parts - whilst it's rather admittedly convenient if you need to have some kind of slightly different billboard or light, it'd be easier to just remove all lights from lamps in the first place. Having the ilum color and effect color be tied together could be an easy to do that way, and would make it more efficent when creating a scene.

That is because one setting modifies the lights billboards etc. which are attached to the entity, while the other modifies the illumination map which is a texture from the material, pretty different stuff tech-wise. Practically there is also a few situations where you will want there to be a difference between the glow on the model itself, and the color /strength of the lights and billboards. Fx you might want a powerful glow, without lighting up the surrounding objects like crazy, in which case you can keep illum high and EffectColorMul low. Some people might want to try some weird stuff as well, like having it glow in one color, and light in another: