Blog: "tech feature: light masking"

**Thomas** · 12-02-2010, 06:56 PM

New feature show off!

http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2010...sking.html

**Frontcannon** · 12-02-2010, 11:03 PM

Yes, that problem has bothered me too many times.

**WindexGlow** · 12-03-2010, 12:04 AM

So does each light have their own shape, or do they get parented to a single shape?

**Thomas** · 12-03-2010, 12:11 AM

(12-03-2010, 12:04 AM)WindexGlow Wrote: So does each light have their own shape, or do they get parented to a single shape?

You create a box shape and can then attach one or several lights to it.

**hollowleviathan** · 12-06-2010, 09:47 AM

Does the light mask have to be a fully closed cube/shape, or can you leave one side open, for example, to allow light to spill out of a doorway, but lightmask the other walls?

**Thomas** · 12-06-2010, 07:37 PM

(12-06-2010, 09:47 AM)hollowleviathan Wrote: Does the light mask have to be a fully closed cube/shape, or can you leave one side open, for example, to allow light to spill out of a doorway, but lightmask the other walls?

What you simply to is to make a box that cuts a corner and is then large enough to encompass the rest of the light.

**hollowleviathan** · 12-07-2010, 01:08 AM

Oh, duh. That makes more sense.