Darkplaces dynamic sunlight

[talisa]

kleshik also has dynamic sorta day-to-night cycle thing,

where any map will slowly turn to pitch-black over time
and you need to use your flashlight to see

[Seven]

The Blood Omnicide game uses Darkplaces and has wonderful dynamic sunlight

Watch the first minute of this clip to see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=METuciFfBKQ

It has a downloadable Demo already, so check it how how they did it.


Anyway,
A better place to ask these kind of questions might be at func msgboard or insideqc.

Good luck.

[nahuel]

I've actually been using a RT light really high in the sky for sunlight, I was just wondering if there was any better way since it doesn't work the best for noon-type lighting.

It's possible to make RTLights into spotlights?

off course, you can assigne it a cubemap

[Bloodshot]

I've actually been using a RT light really high in the sky for sunlight, I was just wondering if there was any better way since it doesn't work the best for noon-type lighting.

It's possible to make RTLights into spotlights?

[MadGypsy]

I've been messing with other stuff for a long time so, I can't give you a perfect answer but, couldn't you just make a spotlight (or many) and simply give it delay & wait that fakes sunlight.

[nahuel]

well in the video the sunlight seems a rtlight placed in some place of the map.


Look this example in blackdays (using darkplaces engine)



You only need a big map, after you will put the sun (in this case, Raton -the mapper- also uses coronas)

For this example Black days is not in full rtlight mode, it uses lightmaps and rtlights (you can use both)

[Bloodshot]

Not quite what I'm looking for, that seems to cast a fake play shadow beneath the player, while I'm looking for a dynamic sunlight that cast shadows on the whole map

[nahuel]

EDITED

try using
r_shadows 2

[Bloodshot]

I was trying to search for this but I couldn't find much on it, is there any way to create a light in DP that acts as a sun, except it uses dynamic shadows instead of using a compiler with sunlight support?

I did find this, but this is done qith Q3BSP i believe, which i haven't used because i use trenchbroom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Usnj80PhU