Latest svn: occasional lighting issue

Post by **winston** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:55 pm

On the start up screen, sometimes the ships are completely unlit:

http://www.alioth.net/tmp/no-light.png

This used to happen in the distant past - I note there are lighting changes in the svn log. (This doesn't seem to affect game play).

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:43 pm

Looks like ambient lighting is being left at its default setting, or restored to normal space level, rather than using the high-ambient pseudo-lighting usually used in the spin mode.

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:51 pm

There are two modes of lighting - in space with GL_LIGHT1 set to provide light from the sun, and in the dock with GL_LIGHT0 set to provide light from high above the player's right shoulder. The ambient light levels for each are now both very low (because the flat light was annoying some people).

Which lights are enabled are set near the start of Universe drawFromEntity: - I've not had any issues with this in the latest builds, but I'll keep an eye open for the problem.