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INFO(0) deals with the overall brightness of a level, says the manual. When Ben uses it in official levels, it looks great. When we use it, we get a staticy, bright white effect from light sources that looks awful. What's going on here?
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Originally posted by spamguy: **INFO(0) deals with the overall brightness of a level, says the manual. When Ben uses it in official levels, it looks great. When we use it, we get a staticy, bright white effect from light sources that looks awful. What's going on here?
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I think that was changed when he implemented the big overall lightmap. Basically you draw the lighting you want for a level in Photoshop (grayscale) and paste it in somehow to use as the level's lightmap. I haven't used the editor in ages, though, so I don't recall how this is accomplished.
I don't think INFO(0) is used anymore to be honest, but I could be wrong.
Be nice if we could get a compiled FAQ/tip sheet for the editor once enough people have learned its... idiosyncrises.
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Or just another manual would be nice. The Annotated EV Bible fixed a lot of things up for me.
By selecting "Clear lightmap" you can get rid of the ugly lighting effects and then start from scratch.
And the read me that came with Mascot, what application opens it. My Mac refuses to open it saying, "The application that created it cannot be found."
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It was originally created in CodeWarrior. I guess if he realized that this would be shipping to the public, he would have done it in BBEdit or some such thing. (If you drag it to BBEdit it will open just fine, however.)
Level info(0) is not used anymore, except for a few things. I don't remember exactly which, but if you set it to approximately the average lighting value, you should be fine. For everything else, use the lightmap!! It's easy to create. Just draw a grayscale picture the same size as the level (1 pixel per tile) and "Paste as Lightmap".
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I assume unused ground (ie, black on the pixmap) would remain black on the lightmap? How many grayscale colors are recognized by the editor?