[SOLVED]Spotlight Near Far Trouble

Scripting Issues
1

If I understand P3D’s light functions correctly… Fov on a spotlight will change its field of view, making the light cover a wider area of effect.

Setting the NearFar controls the distance of the light from start point to end point.

I think I have something wrong in those statements.

I am trying to make my spotlight extend only so far in distance by setting the NearFar, but no value will change the distance.

#No matter what value you have...nothing changes
self.Sunpoint.getLens().setNearFar(1,15)
self.Sunpoint.getLens().setNearFar(1,90)
self.Sunpoint.getLens().setNearFar(1,100)
2

The near far settings only apply to shadowing. If you want to change how far the light reaches, you need to tweak the attenuation settings.

3

I knew about the attenuation setting, I just thought it was for point lights only. :slight_smile:

4

Since light goes through walls in P3D, it’s impossible to contain light in one room manipulating light settings. The best way is to assign lights to each level part (which I was going to do anyway) and make sure those lights do not effect objects or walls from another level part.

Anyway…

I also learned how to Bake Specular Maps with Blender. Most people on the net say it’s impossible with Blender but not so. The thing is, why just bake a spec texture map when you can really bake a fully completed texture (normal, spec, dis, shadow, ambient, etc)?

Here’s an example I made:

:smiley:

Of course, I still have to combine all textures into an Atlas according to how I will flatten them.