Directional Lighting

[Mooglefrooglian]

Apologies if this is answered in an obvious way, but no google search or search here found me it.

I was just wondering, how does one create a directional light? I have found the lines required for an omnidirectional:

Light "Omni01" {
Omnidirectional,
static AttenuationStart 0,
static AttenuationEnd 0,
static Intensity 500,
static Color { 0.05, 0.05, 0.2 },
static AmbIntensity 0.2,
static AmbColor { 0.1, 0.1, 0.1 },
}

But how does one get directional?

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

well, as far as i know the game engine only supports the omni light...
and this one is spreading its light in all directions!

though you can try to fake it:
imagine you have modeled a window and now you want the sunlight to ray into it

make a cube, delete the front and back and move the verts to fit into the window on one side and go down onto the floor on the other side...
now search the .mpq for a ray type of texture and apply it to the cube...
Now set the material channel to full alpha...

Afterwards you can try to place some omnilight into the scene and try to fake a bit of self illumination...

 

[Mooglefrooglian]

Argh, well.. I wasn't intending to use it to "make" a model, I was intending to use the lights as standalone effects in a ssort of horror genre map.

Thanks for the answer though

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

you can use the omni light as standalone and add it wisely to your map (eg dont put a model on oth side, but only on one so it only reflects on one side and looks like directed light)

or

only put the already discussed model edits without the window (i think there are some such models in the ultimate terraining map)