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 Post subject: Working with Artificial Lighting on tracks
PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:29 pm 
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Alright fellas here's my question. I'm working on a rather large dirt track type speedway bassed off our good friend BowtieBandit's LMS tracks pending his permission of course. What I'm looking to do is be able to have a night version of a track like a real full race weekend at a MJ type event and figured a night track was in order. Now I'm using the light model that Slick has used on his WF tracks in recent years and was hoping to place it up high enough up a light pole to give off the illusion that it's coming from the pole. So I placed the model close to the pole and played around with the height above ground and got the light around the top of the pole. When I went in game to see how it looked the lights remained just hovering off the ground. No matter how high I set the above ground height it would not move so apparently you have to do something with the moving objects to get them up in the air. Anyone have an idea at what I need to do?


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:51 pm 
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[edit] cobwebs

see below


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:53 pm 
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what would we do without you guys. gonna have to give that a try


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:23 pm 
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hmm, while testing I could not get the light to come out where I wanted after I adjusted the model's height in binedit.

Here you see where the model is placed

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v715/ ... roblem.jpg</center>

Here's where the light is coming out:

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v715/ ... oblem2.jpg
</center>

Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong?


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:10 pm 
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Ya know what Dustin, I gave you some bad advice. Sorry about that it's been a long while since I played with lights.... like 6 years lol

What you need to do is rotate the light model in binedit and add in a additional transparent bin to trick the game engine. Then rotate the model in traxx so it stands straight up again.

Go to the link below and download the 5th model down from the top called 'Working Lights' and study the model and how it is rotated, also check how the transparent portion added in is situated.

http://cownap.com/~mtmg/models/Custom/cmisc1.html

If it gives you too much trouble let me know and i'll give it a try but i'll need the light model you want to use.


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:12 pm 
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Hey Dustin, thanks for dustin' the cobwebs out of Mal's cranium, and one more thing... a word of caution, that model looks familiar. :wink:


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:13 pm 
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Try this one out Dustin.

litep0z.zip

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After you place the model with traxx all you need to do is set it to moving and adjust the X angle to 45 like so..

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Then just rotate it to point in any direction you want.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:46 pm 
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lol, funny thing is I read that post like 2 weeks ago or so and totally didn't realize it. I'm definatly gonna try that


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