UnrealEd3, sunlight shining in zones

OrionCo30 · Jul 6, 2004

I have noticed that the sunlight actor will only illuminate surfaces that are in the same zone as the sunlight itself. Putting an identical sunlight in each zones you want to illuminate can be a solution, but it can also cause all sorts of lighting problems if the maps architecture has any degree of complexity.

Is there a way to have the sunlight ignore the zoning and shine everywhere it should?

Bot_40 · Jul 6, 2004

no, you gotta have one in each zone

X22887 · Jul 13, 2004

or put a sunlight actor in the skybox

OrionCo30 · Jul 13, 2004

Well well, I never thought about that. And it works too. Thank you very much

X22887 · Jul 14, 2004

I found out about it by accident... caffinene twitches made me place a sunlight actor in a skybox... Suddenly my level was illuminated, and the rest is history

The_Head · Jul 4, 2005

I've always

/delete me.... (blames useless school computer running IE)

The_Head · Jul 4, 2005

I've always used sunlights in skyboxes, neverhad a reason to put them inside of the map. Occasionally it can go through some bsp and leave areas of light where it shouldn't. Easy solution to this though, make sure where you want the sunlight to come in (using false backgrounds) to make sure the whole brush is one. USed to get some really annoying problems before i found that one out

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UnrealEd3, sunlight shining in zones

OrionCo30

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Bot_40

Go in drains

X22887

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