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[Newly Discovered]

D3D AMBIENT LIGHTING
Utilizing SurfaceFix by amd42.

I've never really seen a great ambient lighting effect in GM that didn't require several lights in every corner of the room.
Here we create ambient lighting by rendering a "lighted" map and drawing it to the screen with an alpha value.
Now you don't need several lights to brighten the entire room, only the lights you want and a global ambiance.
Includes colored lights as well!

Screenshot.

Try it with a single light in the corner of the room and lower the ambiance!

Download.
http://host-a.net/Jo...entLighting.zip

p.s.
If current blend modes do not work with your video card (does not look like the screenshot - colors are random)
Please post working blend modes here along with your video card specs. Thanks!

Edited by Newly Discovered, 31 May 2010 - 08:29 PM.

[Phantom107]

Looks pretty good.

[link3000]

Looks nice and smooth (other than the box texture being 120/120) but is it really more efficient to render the scene twice to avoid using multiple lights?

[Newly Discovered]

probably not. this isn't an example of how to make efficient ambient lighting, just to make it.