Floodlight

From OpenArena

Floodlighting is a cheap way to add diffuse lighting in maps without having to wait hours to compile lightbounces or make maps look terrible with flat, physically incorrect, ambient lighting.

In worldspawn add a new key called _floodlight. The values are, in the order that they are typed:

-RGB color values, in the standard 0 - 255 scale. Not in the known light's colors 0 - 1 scale.

-Distance to trace. For a middle value start with 1024. Lower values make the floodlight "flood" the whole map with a more uniform light brightness, making it look more like ambientlight. Higher values make the floodlight more uneven, brighter areas become brighter while dark areas become darker.

-Intensity. The floodlight's intensity.

ote that floodlight "floods" the whole map, there is no control over per area flooding.

It doesn't quite replace skylight shaders, but can help brightening up shadows.

Floodlight alone, no other lights - 185 219 228 1024 30

Floodlight combined with sunlight

Sunext, skylight and floodlight combined