[General] Black Square ?

[Jason56_34]

I was working with my map then suddenly I used a trigger that would set the ambience to a creepy vibe.. then when I attached a light source to someone a blacksquare usually appears near torches or firepits.. Any way to fix this?
Check the map if I'm wrong..
+REP

 

[maddeem]

Too many omni-lights will cause that black square to appear.

 

[Jason56_34]

Is there a way to make that black square disappear without removing any omni lights?

 

[maddeem]

Not that I am aware of.

 

[Strydhaizer]

From Dr. Super Good

The limit is 8 lights per batch of geometry. The lights are auto selected by the engine from nearby based on some black box algorithm. Additionally lights for the currently selected portrait will be placed around {0, 0} on the map. This stems from the old fixed function pipelines of pre-shader 3D graphics which only had 8 slots for lights per draw call.

In short, you have too many lights in your map. You can see the geometry (or you call it black boxes) mentioned at the screenshot you've uploaded.

You can use glow models (from UTM) instead to simulate lights instead of using too many omnilights.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The square is the result of terrain being drawn in 4x4 tile chunks. The discontinuity is the result of only some of the terrain chunks using the same light source. The solution is to use fewer light sources.

 

[Jason56_34]

Ah! I get it now! Thanks for the advice everyone. Im looking forward to it!