Lighting help needed | Forums

[rlmergeuser]

you may or may not have played portal, but i'm having real trouble making the light effects for the portals themselves.

what i need is a thin blue or orange ring around each hole in the wall, and for this to be produced by something that the camera cant see.

the best i've managed is basically a roof lamp shoved in a bin, but that was far too obvious on the track.

the first thing i tried was the small range pointlight, but that failed too

[lespritdelescal]

Ahahaha... I gave up on making a portal map because I couldn't figure out how to make the portals themselves..

I hope you can figure something out.. and sorry I couldn't be of any help. I tried pointlights and couldn't find a way to make those work either.

[rlmergeuser]

portals were simple:
- make the main floor/walls/ceiling of the room with the 4x4 concrete tiles.
- make a special tile (that turned out to be a little too big, but i bodged things a bit) out of the single tiles that has an oval hole in it.
- where you have a portal, make an exact copy of the entire room on both sides of the portal

this is why i was asking about wind for gravity earlier, because you can easily get rooms that go sideways to how they should be

[lespritdelescal]

By portals, I meant the lighting effects that you're trying to achieve..

[rlmergeuser]

doh. thought you meant what the portals do, rather than what they look like. good to know i'm not the only one who was stumped about this