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How does "Paste PICT as Lightmap" work? Is it a grayscale image? If so, how many shades of gray can be used?
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Yes, it should be an 8-bit grayscale image. (The game will reduce it to 16 shades though.)
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Question 1: How do I know if my grayscale pict is 8-bit (I'm not a graphics person). I'm using a program called Canvas, and I just select grayscale for my picts.
Question 2: I made a lightmap and pasted it into my level. It appeared okay. The light and dark shades appeared correctly. But when I played it in Ferazel, I didn't see any light changes. Why is this?
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You may have to set level INFO(0) to 1. I'm guessing, but since Ben's levels are set to 1 and no screwy effects occured...
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Thank you. I set it on 1 and everything worked out. I tried setting it at different darknesses in the info field and it didn't seem to alter the lighting, which makes sence, since you are controlling the lighting through the lightmap, not by the number.
Now, onto general uses for the lightmap. This is just for overall lighting of the level. So there can be darker and lighter areas, right?
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Originally posted by Burnum: **So there can be darker and lighter areas, right? **
Yeah. Look at BN 0.3.
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I still have the PICTS that I used as lightmaps, if you care to look at those too.