DTS OBJECTS lighting problems

#1 I would need to see a screen shot to tell what's happening, however I can think of two problems off hand that are common to double sided geometry (like leaves):

-Strange shading due to a leaf's true front facing surface pointing away from the light source making it look dark. This happens in stock TGE as well, but if you look at the trees provided in the TGE demo the problem is solved by setting up the leaves as self-illuminating.

-Or you already have the leaves set to self-illuminating and they're too bright. For this you'll need to setup a custom self-illumination for the object (in the mission editor) based on the static DTS chart in the Lighting Pack's Modeler Guide (section 'TSStatic Lighting ').

Try both of these to see if you get the results you're looking for. Also, if the tree's trunk is setup to receive direct sun illumination (the 'receiveSunLight' option) then I recommend following the DTS lighting setup that uses the sunlight for self-illumination (the seventh lighting setup in the chart) it give really smooth and consistent lighting across the whole model.

Let me know if this helps.

-John

#2 Interesting post John I got exactly the same problem since I introduced day-night code into our project. Some Tree and DTS change foliage light level depending on camera.

I will look at your solution