[TEC] searchlights disappear

Nisgeis · 05-18-09, 04:24 PM

The search light pixel shader appears to only affect the shading of the search light beam, the light spill cast on the surface is probably drawn in the engine and passed to the water surface shader, so probably not something that can be modded that way. The light spill effect will disappear when the light beam object is off screen, so I would theorise that lengthening the beam object and adjusting the alpha channel of raza2.dds would allow the beam to be on screen, but invisible and allow the spill effect to be drawn as well.

vickers03 · 05-18-09, 04:56 PM

interesting, thanks

05-18-09, 04:24 PM	#1
Nisgeis Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,909 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 11	The search light pixel shader appears to only affect the shading of the search light beam, the light spill cast on the surface is probably drawn in the engine and passed to the water surface shader, so probably not something that can be modded that way. The light spill effect will disappear when the light beam object is off screen, so I would theorise that lengthening the beam object and adjusting the alpha channel of raza2.dds would allow the beam to be on screen, but invisible and allow the spill effect to be drawn as well. __________________ -------------------------------- This space left intentionally blank.

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05-18-09, 04:56 PM	#2
vickers03 Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2007 Location: germany Posts: 1,001 Downloads: 712 Uploads: 37	interesting, thanks