UE1 - UT Disappearing Coronas

[PsyXandeR]

(copied from UP)

Heya I got an issue with coronas ( aka lens flares) - they appear / disappear randomly whethe I look at it or don't. It really drives me nuts, especially when I don't see any reason why this happens. Perhaps it can be an amount of those things in view' Each lightsource I use has its of corona, and I have approximately 20 light sources in the room. Can amount of coronas cause this error?

Also, is it that good idea to use coronas in general? I mean most of the maps I played simply don't use them.

Thnks in advance.


I tried playing with various ZoneInfo properties but none of hem seem to work... or am I doing something wrong?

 

[Wail of Suicide]

(copied from UP)

Heya I got an issue with coronas ( aka lens flares) - they appear / disappear randomly whethe I look at it or don't. It really drives me nuts, especially when I don't see any reason why this happens. Perhaps it can be an amount of those things in view' Each lightsource I use has its of corona, and I have approximately 20 light sources in the room. Can amount of coronas cause this error?

Also, is it that good idea to use coronas in general? I mean most of the maps I played simply don't use them.

Thnks in advance.


I tried playing with various ZoneInfo properties but none of hem seem to work... or am I doing something wrong?

I've experienced the same thing before. I think it's normal behavior to have coronas fail to draw if you've got a large number of them in view.

As for coronas in general, yes, it's absolutely a good idea to use them. Just make sure they're subtle.

 

[Hourences]

Yes there is a limit.

It is the practice to set the corona light to zero brightness, so it doesnt actually cast any light. Easier to control the corona like that.

Wont actually solve your problem though, you cant solve it.

 

[PsyXandeR]

Thanks for helping me guys! Yeah, probably the only thing I should be doing is just rearranging all the light in the map.

 

[Hourences]

Oh one thing you can do is to replace some coronas by sprites. That wont work on regular lamps tho, as sprites behave slightly different, but it can work very well on distant coronas, or lights on top of antennas and all that.

Sprites do not disappear as far as I know.

You need to place a light, but don't enable bcorona, and set it to hidden false so it shows up ingame, then change the light actor texture with a corona texture, and possibly change its render/draw state to Translucent or something similar.

Many UT maps have this.