Playing around with the new Point lights

Nothing majorly impressive, but I think it looks great with the new shadow enhancements. Now, if I can integrate a nice GUI which allows you to pick the colour and range of the light, it would be pretty immense.

UDK maps

I caught wind that you could use UDK to develop maps and run them in XNA. This intrigued me some what, so I decided to give it a go. The lighting needs to be tweaked, but I think that there is more to the exporting process than just clicking Export. Still, my shadow mapping works really nicely.

Problem – Resolved!

Any pointers on how to “tone” down the brightness of the sky?

EDIT
Just needed to add my colorSampler‘s R value to the shadowSampler‘s R value before my final combine call.

That’s better 🙂

New lighting system

Over the next couple of days, I’ll be revisiting the lighting system in order to get a more complete system which is easy to use, and also implement new lights like Spot Lights. Here is the new hemispheric light:

Got the kettle on?

The project is still alive…

It has been a while since I have posted, but I have been rather busy at home which has restricted my development time. I’m still looking into the Light Manager at the moment and will get another post out soon.