Verticle Lighting

[Spunkman]

i remember quite a few years back, a guy named Cheezler ran a site called "the doom special effects shop". i remember him specifically doing a verticle lighting technique, and it looking decent. wanted to know if anyone knew how he acheived this (i'm assuming it's not just a custom texture or something). if anyone knows where to get the wad, or a tutorial on how to do it, i'd be appreciative.

[myk]

That was like 1998.

[boris]

There was a example wad for that in /newstuff a few week ago

Screenshot

The wad can be downloaded here.

[myk]

I was thinking about that, and it might be the effect he's looking for, but stopped short because he said "vertical," so I imagined a beam of light going from, let's say, a hole in the ceiling to the floor.

[Spunkman]

what i meant by verticle was:

there was a light source on the ground, next to a wall, and as the light moved up the wall, it gradually decreased in brightness. just mentioning it though, gave me an idea on how to do it.

[Spunkman]

essentially, this:


http://home.comcast.net/~spunkman/vertlight.jpg

edit: i messed around with it a bit, and it looks passable at a distance. still not quite sure how cheezler did it though.

[Szymanski]

I might be wrong but a more accurate effect is now possible with zdoom (light variation within a sector). Not sure how it works though.

There's also the effect mention by Andy Olivera here:

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20489&perpage=30&highlight=endgame&pagenumber=3

[Grazza]

Spunkman said:

"the doom special effects shop"

http://web.archive.org/web/19981206143150/http://www.doomworld.com/dsfxs/

Not very informative though, since the "shots" section isn't archived.

[Fanatic]

You can do that in EDGE and Legacy too using transparent 3d floors too.

I did that in level 3 of QDOOM, where you go down into the lowest level of the South Western castle's lava room. The lava has a graduated light that uses I think 4 or 5 3d floors with less light as you go up.

[Dron]

That effect appears a few times in PA:R Level 1 in that corridor with a view to a landing pad and level 3 in that big, dark room.