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  1. Jun 11th, 2001, 07:35 PM #1
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    Creating cool light effects?

    Does anyone know how to make some really cool lighting effects, like the effects of the lights in this picture??
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  2. Jun 11th, 2001, 08:39 PM #2
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    What they did here is use D3D (or DGraphics if DX8), textured the cube with the picture, and added point lights where you see them.
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  3. Jun 12th, 2001, 06:09 AM #3
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    No they didn't Sas =). The lights in D3D dont show up like that. They probably use a colored, Alphablended sprite.

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    Then they used alpha-channels on a complete flood fill of a colour.
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  6. Jun 13th, 2001, 12:06 AM #5
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    Hmm... I've looked thru the game's folder and there's a folder with masks in it - one's got 'lightmask.png' and it's a black and white mask of the light effect - but no colour - how can I make it coloured with this??

    [P.S - NO DIRECTX WAS USED APART FROM DIRECTINPUT!!! I talked to the creator of the program - made in Delphi]
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    But using DX would make it much easier, once you got it to work..

    well they probably used the transparent blt API or their own routine...
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