Talk:Intermediate Lighting

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Added a little about the lightmaps. --RabidMonkey 11:06, 30 Jun 2005 (PDT)

Suggestion: Should this page be renamed to Intermediate lighting? I think it should, because:

  1. The title "Advanced" makes it sound like these things should be used only attempted by "advanced" mappers. But in my opinion, almost as soon as a mapper can manage to use normal light entities, they should be graduating to light_spots and light_environments, because the results are much better but they aren't really that much more complex.
  2. There is plenty that could be written about lighting that is at a genuinely an "advanced" level. For example, lighting for dramatic expression and mood setting purposes, techniques for correctly lighting characters, etc.

--Giles 00:37, 17 May 2006 (PDT)

Am I doing something wrong? The smoothing effect is said to be obvious, but this is the most unobvious effect I've seen. --Andreasen 00:01, 13 Sep 2006 (PDT)