Crystal texture

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <gazing intently...>

If I understand what you are saying, you might want to pull one of Sen's tricks - Start at the bottom with full opaque black (Self-illum 1.0 1.0 1.0) and section the faces above it in decreasing opaqueness (er, increasing alpha...).

I can't think of a way to do it with emitters, though.

Might make a placeable that way, though.

Edit: Screenie of what *isn't* working for you?
@ Baba: Nice. Didn't think of that.

<...into a dark palantir>
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 20 novembre 2012 - 03:53 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Just a ghost]

               I want a placeable tile (or a 4x4 one) that I can use at the bottom of trenches and chasms to simulate endless depth. It should kinda work like a square darkness effect. Darkness uses both an emitter and a negative light source, and I can imagine the effect I am looking for can be reached with either. Unfortunately both effects are round, and not square... The nice side product of this would be that if I made this tile red/orange it would look like hot glow, which would give the tileset a hotter appearance.

Anyway, I saw that you can have a directional light source. I tried to get it working, but failed. Could that somehow be used with negative light?
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Just a ghost, 20 novembre 2012 - 05:15 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_s e n]

               what is a directional light source?

As Baba said, a standard fade texture with some cylindrical mapping and a bit of unwrap to align verts should be enough to fake the endless chasm thing btw
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_NWN_baba yaga]

               If you mean a targeted light like in quake games no, not possible. It´s broken anyway, dont know why the vertexlights in nwn can be so wonky when you experiment with them:D They pierce trough walls when they shouldnt and dont effect geometry where they are supposed to do... and forget the only ambient option...that is even more broken when it comes to "where i shall lit" and where not
               
               

               

                     Modifié par NWN_baba yaga, 20 novembre 2012 - 06:40 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Just a ghost]

               Yeah, I know the proper way, but these models are so messy that I can't get the textures sorted out properly. However, with 6 layers of black surfaces with alpha 2.1 I got what I wanted.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Screeny?

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               

Just a ghost wrote...
However, with 6 layers of black surfaces with alpha 2.1 I got what I wanted.

AFAIK, that's how to do it.  I would really love to see a video of that.  I've never done it passed 2 layers.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Just a ghost]

               http://social.biowar...m/project/8604/

Tada! Just download the stuff and look at the demo module. The gradients need a tiny tweak: I tested it with a slightly darker tileset, and it appears the last layer doesn't completely block the ground textures. Guess I'll make that one a bit less transparent and place the whole model 0.2 above the ground.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Just went to the project page and it says there are no files to download.

TR
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Tarot Redhand, 21 novembre 2012 - 08:32 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Just a ghost]

               Weird... I see this:

Project Files
spiky hell.zip
Size: 12.72 MB

Do I need to invite people or something like that?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               On your project's page, look on the right-hand side where it says "Manage Files".  Click on that, and make sure the Visibility radio buttion is set to "Everyone".  Since I typically only share one file in a project, I also like to tick the Featured File setting in that same area.  You'll need to perform this additional step whenever you want to just casually throw a file on here. 
               
               

               

                     Modifié par OldTimeRadio, 21 novembre 2012 - 07:12 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Just a ghost]

               OK... hope you can see it now!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               

OldTimeRadio wrote...
AFAIK, that's how to do it.  I would really love to see a video of that.  I've never done it passed 2 layers.

D'oh!  I thought you were talking about using that many layers for a crystalline effect!  I see now what you're trying to do: Looks good!
               
               

               

                     Modifié par OldTimeRadio, 23 novembre 2012 - 01:44 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Just a ghost]

               Got another question. I don't seem to get the tile lights working. Even if I put them from black to white I see no difference at all. The only change I made to a lot of tiles is a texture swap, so I wonder if it's the darkness of the texture that blocks the lights' effectiveness.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               I noticed that with my torch, thought you'd done it on purpose.  I didn't check but I assumed it was a result of Amb/Diff material overrides being set to white on what is an almost black texture.