[MP2] how to block Dynamic Pointlight?

[3dcircle]

I have attached an illustration of my situation.

Situation:
> I have two rooms separated by a Portal.
> Room A is having a Dynamic Pointlight.
> Room B is having a Character.

Problem:
> Pointlight in RoomA is affecting the character in RoomB.

The Questions:
1. How can we block the Pointlight, not to affect other rooms.
2. If possible how can we Trigger the pointlight to turn off.


Awaiting an affirmative response.

Thanks a lot

[Hitman0586]

Well maybe you should calculate the lighting not for the whole your level, but for the Room A first (Choose the Room A and go to GIS->Send Selection) and then for the Room B (the same manoeuvre)

[3dcircle]

thanks for the reply, but dynamic pointlight got nothing to do with GIS, it is independent of that.

Is there a way to trigger pointlight on/off on the fly??

thanks

[theHunted]

Pointlights should not be used in MaxEd2 anymore. It's an outdated and bad looking leftover from MaxEd1. The proper way of doing it is placing real light sources. Then call GIS to render the static illumination. After that is done call VOLCALC to compute the lighting information for dynamic objects based on the static GIS results.

In case you want to switch a light on and off in realtime you need to use a FSM entity and add a particle effect to it IIRC.

[3dcircle]

Thanks a lot for your replies. I tried your method for volcalc and i received a very happy ending error message...attached!!!

So my system is not eligible for volcalc, maybe i'll find some other way... :)

Thanks a lot.

[theHunted]

Quick question: What graphics card do you own? Volcalc definately needed the latest hardware back in the days but at this point any hardware that isnt older than say 5 years should do imo. Either your graphics card really is too old or you might need to install more recent drivers.

[3dcircle]

what can I say.., your Eyes are smarter than my words... attached :)

[theHunted]

Damn that is one hell of an old graphics card. I think its also a notebook adapter so new drivers arent available easily, right? But I guess not even new drivers would fix the problem.
Anyway, your last hope is to ask a friend or relative with a newer PC to install MaxEd and run the computation for you. It would be a shame to have to fall back to the pointlight solution.

[3dcircle]

exactly the only problem is the old notebook which can't be upgraded for video cards and no new drivers available.

But no problems I'll do something bout it. :)

Thanks a lot.