Window lights at night exterior

IgnitionChemistry

I'm a beginner to cryengine and I've been trying to simulate this effect of a night house interior lighting to be seen from outside just like in this example:


My houses have no interiors yet and are all seen only on exterior, and the house is all linked into a single mesh all together, is this still possible? How does one go about doing this kind of lights?

Drew++

You could use the glow effect in materials? http://docs.cryengine.com/display/SDKDOC2/Glow+Effect

IgnitionChemistry

That could work in theory! And I wouldnt even have to unlink the windows from the houses, thanks a lot Drew!!

IgnitionChemistry

Would the glow map be able to be scripted in flow graph to only turn on at night though? :S

e-freak

yes via material parameters you can set the glow factor. time of day can be used as a condition to trigger it

IgnitionChemistry

Hello!
Well what I'm having trouble is on the flowgraph part, it's my first flowgraph.
I've done the window lights with the glow parameter and I'm now trying to light them on and off with the Time of Day trigger along with some lamps I've made.

Whenever I enter the preview mode the lamps are off, but they don't turn on at night.
I've found tutorials to do this for the lamps and the glow but they are triggered with the proximity trigger, which has different inputs and outputs...

e-freak

here's the logic for a material:


and for light entities set it like this:

IgnitionChemistry

Thanks! I'll try it in a few hours when I get home!