[Cleaned] Darkness

[Pharaoh_]

Hi there,

I have looked to SC2mapster as well, but I didn't find the optimal settings for this.

I want to recreate the WarCraft III SetDayNightModels("","") effect. That is, I need pitch black (or null) lighting and everything set on the map to be affected solely by custom light sources (omni-lights/ spotlights or models that have lights internally, such as fire).

I have toyed with a lot of settings and the main component would be lightness, but this affects pretty much everything, even custom lights.

How would I reproduce this effect through the Lighting Editor?

P.S. I will use it in the Cutscene Editor, so if someone could either point me to the right settings or upload their own lighting via Pastebin, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

[Dr Super Good]

Global -> Ambient Color -> (0,0,0)
Global -> Specular Multiplier -> 0.0
Global -> Emissive Multiplier -> 0.0
Key -> Diffuse Color -> (0,0,0)
Key -> Diffuse Multiplier -> 0.0
Key -> Specular Color -> (0,0,0)
Key -> Specular Multiplier -> 0.0
Fill -> Diffuse Color -> (0,0,0)
Fill -> Diffuse Multiplier -> 0.0
Back -> Diffuse Color -> (0,0,0)
Back -> Diffuse Multiplier -> 0.0

These are all the lights used. All other settings change how light is interpreted. Remember to set editor and game on to extreme as otherwise not all effects may be seen.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Cool, thanks a lot. I actually didn't try placing a light after I made the settings, because I was checking how the light was behaving on regular meshes.

Thanks!

Edit: Oops, normals and speculars are.. absent. It's just a plain diffuse color with these settings (I have it on Extreme and Ultra).

 

[Dr Super Good]

Edit: Oops, normals and speculars are.. absent. It's just a plain diffuse color with these settings (I have it on Extreme and Ultra).

Can placed lights even generate these? In any case you can try setting the appropriate multipliers above 0, it should still not illuminate the world as long as the colours are all black.