Torches at night?

[Charan]

Woah I managed to make the night really dark.(have you ever been in a forest having just moonlight to light your path?).

Hell it's so dark that I think it would be apropriate to add Torches.

So here's the question: is it possible to add a torch that would give light to surrounding area?(i was thinking about shield slot)

 

[guilemaster]

Well you're last sentence makes me think you're talking about an item that you hold. If so, then I'll have to look into a bit more. I'm sure it's possible though...

 

[Charan]

Yes. A secondary *weapon* that would make fighting and moving at night easier.

Im currently compiling over 30 diffrent skyboxes with light effects. My main goal is:
- Make night darker so it's actually sometimes better to wait for morning(done)
- to merge it with camp entr mod(fighting from fortified positions while camping),
- somehow make troops loose morale while travelling at night,(encourage setting camps at night rather than travelling 24/7)


But of course a working torch(shield) would fit such modifications perfectly ^_^

Could you inform me about any progress made in making such item, please?

 

[Lumos]

No, sorry. You should be able to make the torch's fire with a particle system, but M&B's engine does not support moving lights. (IDK about Warband, though.)

 

[Charan]

No, sorry. You should be able to make the torch's fire with a particle system, but M&B's engine does not support moving lights. (IDK about Warband, though.)

So there's still hope...

 

[Soil]

Even if it does you can have only very few torches in a battle before you experience a serious performance drop.

 

[Charan]

I was rather thinking about torches usable only by players...

 

[Maяcel]

Even if it does you can have only very few torches in a battle before you experience a serious performance drop.

really? does it handle light that bad?

 

[xenoargh]

1.  It's probably possible to do a script that would light up an area and follow the player or Companions or anybody with a torch. Basically, you just need a cyclic check that creates a new Prop light at approximately the right position, and eliminates all of the old ones.  I think that if you cycle the prop IDs, you can even do that pretty efficiently.

But you can't do "attached" lights, no.  It would basically be some medium-fancy smoke-and-mirrors stuff.

2.  Point lights are fairly expensive in this engine.

3.  It might be cheaper to do this with a special kind of particle effect that faked it.

 

[Somebody]

Can't you just use agent_set_attached_scene_prop with one of the many light-emitting props?

 

[GetAssista]

you can, but it will do nothing if scene render is computed before the battle and stays static

 

[xenoargh]

I think the lights are truly dynamic, given the way they flicker and such.  So that may work.  Certainly wouldn't take long to test.

 

[Charan]

sooo.. anybody up for doing this for me? I'm green when it comes to scripts and such :/

 

[Soil]

Even if it does you can have only very few torches in a battle before you experience a serious performance drop.

really? does it handle light that bad?

About any engine (except those supporting deferred lighting) will have problems with too many light sources.

 

[mobotium]

Hum.... torches already exist?

You can find them on most castles at nigth, dont know if their a item though...

 

[GetAssista]

Hum.... torches already exist?

A secondary *weapon* that would make fighting and moving at night easier.

 

[The Shadow]

I was thinking about this last night.  Is there ways to make weapons emit particles?

I think the lights are truly dynamic, given the way they flicker and such.  So that may work.  Certainly wouldn't take long to test.

I'll test it when I get back from work. 

 

[Lumos]

Nope, they are not. When you add a point light, you set the flickering manually.

 

[Amman d Stazia]

yes, it's positioned as a scene prop, and it is fixed in position.  The only way to make scene props move is in pre-determined re-spawns like the siege towers.  (they spawn at about 10 or 15 different places getting closer and closer to the wall, which gives the impression of jerky movement).

 

[GetAssista]

The only way to make scene props move is in pre-determined re-spawns like the siege towers.

No, you can move scene props as you wish.
However, rendered light from a light source prop stays at initial position.