Point Spotlight Disappearance Issue...
by User · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/26/2009 (8:46 pm) · 5 replies
Um, i checked the forums, i don't know if anyone else is having this problem.
So i've been playing/learning about lighting in T3D, but whenever i create a point spotlight into the map, i adjust it and everything and it goes fine. But when i either look, stand, or am in the lights radius distance, the whole lighting just disappears.
Before i go by spotlight:
After i go by spotlight:
Poof! It doesnt happen with any other types of lights.
Any Ideas?
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
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I know i need more memory... It could be the issue..
So i've been playing/learning about lighting in T3D, but whenever i create a point spotlight into the map, i adjust it and everything and it goes fine. But when i either look, stand, or am in the lights radius distance, the whole lighting just disappears.
Before i go by spotlight:
After i go by spotlight:
Poof! It doesnt happen with any other types of lights.
Any Ideas?
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ----------
System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
System Model OptiPlex GX270
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2793 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Computer Corporation A04, 5/17/2004
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:WINDOWS
System Directory C:WINDOWSsystem32
Boot Device DeviceHarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name ----------Chris
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 439.13 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.40 GB
Page File C:pagefile.sys
I know i need more memory... It could be the issue..
About the author
#2
06/27/2009 (6:20 am)
No its a .DIF. There acting really strange in T3D. if the collide with any other part of the model, it dissapears. So now im going to try to learn blender, and see if that helps. 
#4
You know, when I was 12, I think the best I could manage was simple text games written in BASIC on an Apple II. I'm envious of 12-year-olds with Torque3D ;)
06/27/2009 (9:10 am)
To be fair, DIFs are very strange. I hope you have good luck learning Blender. The DIF format, and CSG (Constructive-Solid Geometry) modeling is really on the outs anyhow, and the skills you develop using Blender will be much more applicable.You know, when I was 12, I think the best I could manage was simple text games written in BASIC on an Apple II. I'm envious of 12-year-olds with Torque3D ;)
#5
Around 12, I made a single screen shmup, no scrolling, 1 type of enemy - it nearly killed me and put me off making anymore games till FreeSpace's mission editor around 14 years later.
If only all of this user friendly tech was available back then ...
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06/27/2009 (9:52 am)
text games written in BASIC FTW!Around 12, I made a single screen shmup, no scrolling, 1 type of enemy - it nearly killed me and put me off making anymore games till FreeSpace's mission editor around 14 years later.
If only all of this user friendly tech was available back then ...
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Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
So your shining that light thru a grid above... is that grid a DTS? Does it have a second LOD that is solid?