Movers are black

Elodin

That's pretty much is the issue. I created moving platforms and lighted up entire scene, plus a character has a flashlight, but movers or rigid bodies are not responding.

Or responding for a second, go dark, go lighted up again and well, it doesn't look nice.

Do you guys know how to fix this?

Hourences

It is because they use average brightness/position/color as an optimization. Called light environments, found in the properties of those actors. You will want to tweak that or turn it off.

Having them go all black is a bit weird though. Pivot points are far off? Large meshes? Possible symptom of another problem.

Elodin

Large meshes, mostly. It's a couple of moving platforms

Ill check the light environments option

r4ptur3

do you have multiple dominant lights? try adding a pointlightmoveable next to the mesh and see if it lights up. my guess is there are mutiple dominant lights and it is confusing the engine, or there are no dynamic lights at all.

Elodin

Nope, just one. And yeah, i got point light moveable next to it. As well as the flashlight (which is movable as well) =/

sprunghunt

do you have a lightmass importance volume in your level? It might be worthwhile to put one in and make sure that it's scaled down as small as you can get it. Dynamic objects use a point field for lighting which can be adjusted by the size of the lightmass importance volume.

Also have a look in the movers properties for "bSynthesizeSHLight" and try setting this to 'true'. This turns on a slightly higher quality lighting technique that, although more expensive, gives better self shadowing and lighting.

https://udn.epicgames.com/Three/LightEnvironments.html

Hourences

Lightmass importance volume should cover the level, making it as small as you can get would be bad.

Splitting into smaller meshes could help the lighting some.

If the level is fairly uniform in terms of lighting you can turn off light envs, and work with light channels instead to manually ensure the mesh still renders lighting efficiently. This is somewhat advanced though and takes some tweaking and messing to get right.

If the meshes do not move much, you can also just bake the lighting on them. Your flashlight should then still work also, I believe.

Elodin

Thats the point - flashlight works but it gives weird results. A small moving spike is either black or completely lit.

I have the lightmass importance volume in there.

r4ptur3

Try checking the options for your movers (f4) and search for "use boolean environment shadowing". Turn that option off. That'll force UDK to use delicious expensive shadows on your object instead of the on/off solution.

Racer445

this thread is racist

radiancef0rge

Racer445 wrote: »

this thread is racist

ahahaha

Elodin

Racer445 wrote: »

this thread is racist

))))

Elodin

I tried tweaking the options, it got better after r4ptu3's advice, but it's still weird. Pitch black or lighted up.