Hi,

This has probably been asked before, but why do I see such flaws in the lighting? And how do I fix it?



I'm using the mtl_bump shader.

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Here's a more recent screenshot, with flaws in the lighting above the water - and the strange thing is, that there's only 1 block there, however it seems to be the texture (or maybe the normal map?) which causes the problem?

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It seems that it only occurs when I use the shaders from mtlFX.c. I just still don't understand why, and how to fix it.

Sorry, I've never seen that before. Maybe other people will be more able to help with some more information -- is that on level blocks? Which shaders have the problem? Do some of the shaders from mtlFX.c work without the problem?

Sorry I can't be really helpful, but I've just never seen that (if you're working with level blocks, I haven't used WED in a looooooong time).

Jibb

Thanks for the reply

Yes, it's using level blocks from WED, and mtl_bump. I haven't tried all shaders yet, but I'll check whether the other shaders behaves the same way.

Edit: mtl_bump, mtl_parallax and mtl_toon all behaves strange on this particular block.

Hiya.

If you replace the WED blocks with models, do you still get the same result?

its because of the ABT build you build your levels with. the lightning, especially the dynamic lights aswell as the decals are off. the engine basically renders level geometry as polygons now, and sometimes cuts off polys wrongly.
you can try to fix that by setting the WED properties lighting either to ncie dynamic lighting in level build, with small tesselation, remove dynamic light, build as BSP, or check the merge across leafs and chek/uncheck the dont snap vertices flag.
you have to try around a little. this is an error on the engines part and i doubt my tipps help, but its better than nothing...