Floor Light

[SlatheDoomer]

Hello, I remember this being asked in another post but I couldn't remember exactly how to phrase the search feature. I was just curious how would one go about making the floor one light level and the ceiling another?


Thanks,
SlatheDoomer

[Chainsaw]

AFAIK, you cant. Light is done by sector. And the light level is constant for the entire height of the sector.

[myk]

It's called shadowcasting in the Doomworld Editing Pages.

[Szymanski]

As Myk pointed out you can use the shadowcasting trick, this works with the original engine. There are some examples here:

http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=12539

If your using Boom or one of the newer ports you can achieve the effect using special linedefs (called 'set sector floor light' or similar). These are generally easier to implement.

[SlatheDoomer]

I was able to reference the ceiling light by a line tag.

Thanks for the replies though,
SlatheDoomer

[Xanthier]

can you pm me and tell me exactly how you accomplished this?

[EarthQuake]

If using ZDoom:
http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Transfer_FloorLight
http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Transfer_CeilingLight

Just make a dummy sector with the desired light level you want transferred, make one of the sides use this linedef special, and tag it to a sector where you want the light transferred to.

I *think* these also work in Boom (and ports that support Boom).