Hello Duke,

First of all, why dont you ask for an adjusted foot + fire + nails mod ?
If you do not ask, there will be no help.
I happen to know the author of that mod. He seems to be a nice guy and will surely help.


Back to your initial problem (shown in your screenshot):
If you enable realtime lightning the flame will by handled like any other model.
The flame itself is of course not producing light (like in the real world). Only light sources will produce lights in game. The mapper decided to place light sources all over the map to make it look good/real.

Light sources near torches or flames are placed many times not directly in the middle of the fire model. Instead it is moved a little to get the best visual. Be aware that mappers do not create their maps with realtime lighting in mind !

The result is exactly the issue that you described: flames will cast shadows.


To get rid of it you have multiple options:
1.) Adjust each "wrongly" positioned light source manually --> extreme amount of work.
2.) Write a qc mod and tell the engine to NOT cast shadows for the flame models. --> needs a mod for every mod
3.) Write point no 2.) directly into the engine code and give it a cvar to toggle it. --> would work for all mods/maps
4.) Add a shader to the flame models to NOT cast shadows --> would work for all mods/maps

As you see, point 3.) and 4.) are universal and are thereby best to choose.
I am no engine coder, so I cannot do point 3.). But I am a modder, so I can do point 4.) for you.

So, here is the fix for this issue that works in all maps and all mods.
It is made for Darkplaces but should also work for FTE (unfortunately I cannot use FTE anymore since build 5000. Spike knows why...).


Without fix: (screenshot taken in start map near water pool to 4th episode)




With fix: (screenshot taken in start map near water pool to 4th episode)




DOWNLOAD

Best wishes,
Seven

Thank you so much! it works great!

sevens file has expired any chance you could put it up for me and others to download pls.

Heh, I chuckled...

Hello quadrocket,

This darn gremlins... They ate the file again
I put it on a server which should keep it a little longer.

Please download it from here

Best wishes,
Seven

Seven, why don't you use Dropbox? It will keep the files as long as you want.

thank you seven love your work even if my shitty comp wont let me enjoy it

A Quaketastic link is basically beyond permanent.

Even if the Quaketastic site were to die, the files can still be downloaded from archive.org (the well-funded and Amazon backed permanent archiving site).

Example: https://web.archive.org/web/*/quaketastic.com

Try it yourself and see.

Dock bfg666's score 2 mugwumps or 2 quatloos or whatever the trendy imaginary currency is today --- for the silly idea of suggesting dropbox>quaketastic in any way, shape or form.

That's not what I meant. I suggested Dropbox instead of the upload sites with an expiration date that Seven generally uses. Also, I didn't know Quaketastic links were permanent and I thought Dropbox would be safer in the long run, as Quake sites seem to have a tendency to shut down after a number of years.