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Warning:New lights use expensive gbuffer, that means that with this entity your scene rendering at least 5 times, which makes your level very expensive, considering that XenEngine uses 32-bit architecture and DirectX 9.5 rendering. In large quantities, new lights can greatly heat up your computer and also cause large FPS drops (depending on difficulty of your map and how your area open). Use wisely.
Important:It greatly affects optimization, less is better.
Note:With 0 will not draw, process and specular shader be disabled.
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{{Toc-right}}{{This is a|name=NewLights_Spawner|e0|game=Black Mesa}} This entity creates client side new lights over a given area when it appears and also after loading save. Created new lights removes if this entity is removed from level. Initially created to test new lighting system. For better understanding of this page - recommended at first familiarize yourself with new lights. | {{Toc-right}}{{This is a|name=NewLights_Spawner|e0|game=Black Mesa}} This entity creates client side new lights over a given area when it appears and also after loading save. Created new lights removes if this entity is removed from level. Initially created to test new lighting system. For better understanding of this page - recommended at first familiarize yourself with new lights. | ||
{{warning|New lights use expensive [https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-Lighting/Deferred-Shading gbuffer], that means that with this entity your scene rendering at least 5 times, which makes your level very expensive, considering that [[XenEngine]] uses 32-bit architecture and [[DirectX_Versions|DirectX]] 9.5 rendering. In large quantities, new lights can greatly heat up your computer and also cause large FPS drops (depending on difficulty of your map and how your area open). Use wisely.}} | {{warning|New lights use expensive [https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-Lighting/Deferred-Shading gbuffer], that means that with this entity your scene rendering at least 5 times, which makes your level very expensive, considering that [[XenEngine]] uses 32-bit architecture and [[DirectX_Versions|DirectX]] 9.5 rendering. In large quantities, new lights can greatly heat up your computer and also cause large FPS drops (depending on difficulty of your map and how your area open). Use wisely.}} | ||
{{bms}} Represented by class <code>CNewLightSpawner</code>. | |||
{{back | Black Mesa Level Creation}} | {{back | Black Mesa Level Creation}} | ||
[[File:NewLights_Spawner-Image.jpg|thumb|Image in which [[newLights_Spawner]] is used.]] | [[File:NewLights_Spawner-Image.jpg|thumb|Image in which [[newLights_Spawner]] is used.]] | ||
Revision as of 09:33, 24 March 2024
NewLights_Spawner is an e0 available in 
Black Mesa. This entity creates client side new lights over a given area when it appears and also after loading save. Created new lights removes if this entity is removed from level. Initially created to test new lighting system. For better understanding of this page - recommended at first familiarize yourself with new lights.
Warning:New lights use expensive gbuffer, that means that with this entity your scene rendering at least 5 times, which makes your level very expensive, considering that XenEngine uses 32-bit architecture and DirectX 9.5 rendering. In large quantities, new lights can greatly heat up your computer and also cause large FPS drops (depending on difficulty of your map and how your area open). Use wisely. Represented by class CNewLightSpawner.
Image in which newLights_Spawner is used.
Keyvalues
- Name (targetname) <string>
- The name that other entities refer to this entity by.
- LightType (LightType) <choices>
- Type of new lights that will create NewLights_Spawner.
- 0: Point Light
- 1: Spot Light
- NumLights (NumLights) <integer>
- NumLights
Determines number of new lights that will spawn.
- NumLightsInRow (NumLightsInRow) <integer>
- NumLightsInRow
Determines number of new lights that will spawn in every row.
- Range (Range) <float>
- Range.
How far the light source illuminates. Measured in Hammer Units.
Important:It greatly affects optimization, less is better.|
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- Light Intensity (Intensity) <float>
- RGB * Intensity.
Brightness of the light.
Note:With 0 will not draw, process and specular shader be disabled.- RowSpaceing (RowSpaceing) <float>
- RowSpaceing
Row spaceing.
- ColSpacing (ColSpacing) <float>
- ColSpacing
Col spacing.
- RandomColor (RandomColor) <choices>
- If yes - new lights will use random colors. If no - new lights will use chosen color.
- 0: No
- 1: Yes
- Light Color (LightColor) <color255>
- This is the color of the light when random color is tunedOFF
- SpawnDir_Right (SpawnDir_Right) <vector>
- SpawnDir_Right
Spawn dir right.
Inputs
Outputs
See also
- newLight_Point
- newLight_Spot
- env_lensflare
- newLight_Dir
- newLights_settings
- env_cascade_light
- Lighting
- Adding Light
- Intermediate Lighting
- Advanced Lighting
- Effect flags (dynamic light effects)
- Tool textures (for Block light)
- BlackMesa XenEngine: Part 4 – Lighting & Shadows (page from Black Mesa developer about new lights)
- BlackMesa XenEngine: Part2 – How a Frame is Rendered (page from Black Mesa developer about how a frame rendered)
- BlackMesa XenEngine: Part1 – Heavily Modified Source Engine (page from Black Mesa developer about Black Mesa engine, better known as Xenengine)
Todo: Clean up english.