Material and dynamic lighting questions

[Emon]

Just two questions.

1. For materials, does anyone know if you could have a large sheet of wood, and have a bullet make a hole in it instead of snapping it in half?

2. What's the word on dynamic lighting? Does HL2 support dynamic lightmaps at all? Can I have a sun rise and set, changing the map from day to night? Can I have a light fly across the room and watch the shadows on the main architecture of the room change (things that are lightmapped that is)?

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Not sure about 1.

You can't do 2. HL2 uses static lightmaps (much like original HL). There's a small amount of dynamic lighting (the area around the player when they fire, or flashlights etc), but these aren't true d-lights - they just increase the brightness of a given area.

 

[Sat]

For 1: you'll probably have the choice of the power of the bullet so it doesn't broke it (if that's what you meant)

 

[Emon]

Wow, that sucks... a lot.

I guess, though, you couldn't get such high resolution lightmaps with those intense radiosity calculations and have them dynamic.

What about Hammer, does it have a lighting preview at least, with shadows?

 

[Emon]

Oh, what about moving lights that move along a predefined path? Moving shadows, but static paths. Lightmaps could be calculated for each frame.

I also assume we can have flickering lights, toggleable lights, like Quake lightstyles, correct?

 

[crabcakes66]

"I'm not sure where people get the idea that HL-2 doesn't support dynamic lighting."

A qoute from gabe....

 

[Emon]

Okay, okay, please elaborate. Dynamic lighting, or dynamic shadows? Yeah, we can see the dynamic lights very clearly. I assume when you fire a gun next to your partner, there's a duplicate shadow of different darkness from the flash (I assume this would be turned off by default, that gets intense, see Serious Sam )

The best question would be, "Can I create a true day/night cycle?"

 

[Xtasy0]

Originally posted by Emon
Okay, okay, please elaborate. Dynamic lighting, or dynamic shadows? Yeah, we can see the dynamic lights very clearly. I assume when you fire a gun next to your partner, there's a duplicate shadow of different darkness from the flash (I assume this would be turned off by default, that gets intense, see Serious Sam )

The best question would be, "Can I create a true day/night cycle?"

we cant elaborate, we dont really know, just wait for the game and see.

 

[Emon]

Well I wasn't sure if there was any more information on that.