-ambient Color

Ollj

I have some problems with "-ambient color" (ambient light) using Batch Compiler 2.01 and 1.7p10.
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Set ambient world light.
This option sets a minimum light value to every face so that nothing comes out pitch black.
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In NS its always Black or white (like fullbright but its just white ambient light all over)
Ambient light might be used rarely.
Maybe its an NS specific problem.
Whats the correct Syntax for an aditional parameter ?

Update: Blue (0 0 255) worked fine. but I want grey.

2:
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Command line: C:\PROGRA~1\BATCHC~1\HLRAD.EXE -extra -sparse -oldmath -bounce 2 -smooth 80 -chop 256 -texchop 128 -lights complexlig.rad <b>-ambient 0,501960784313725 0,501960784313725 1</b> -chart -estimate -noinfo -low "F:\mapedit\- Maps\selfmade\compile.map"<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> WTH? %value with 15 decimals?

NerdIII

15 decimals and only 2 values? maybe it is 16-bit *g*
there must be something wrong with the batch compiler if it only sends 2 values to hlrad.exe

Ollj

the 3rd value is "1" . look closer and you might find it.

Merkaba

The values must be between 0 and 1, not 0 and 255. Pure red for instance would be <b>1 0 0</b>, and grey would be something like 0.01 0.01 0.01

NerdIII

We know, we know. Just why the heck does HLRAD not work correctly on the given values. There are at least two possibilities:
<ul>
<li>Cagey wrecked the lighting code during his 'optimizations' :O
<li>15 decimals are too much for the internal text-to-number conversion of HLRAD
</ul>

hmm I wonder if you can create lists in lists in this forum...
*makeswierdlist*
<ul>
<li><ul><li>I1</ul>
<li>I2
<ul>
<li>I3<li>
</ul>
</ul>

NerdIII

Yeah... that comes out cool <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Looks like a map of known galaxies or something.

Ollj

alright. numbers between 1 and 100 failed, like i expected.
numbers between 0.1 and 1 (or 0,1 and 1) failed too wich confused.
now numbers between 0 and 0.01 work fine!

so <b>0.01 = 100%</b> (<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->) in RGB values.

0.002 0.002 0.002 is dark grey (20%).
0.005 0.005 0.005 is bright grey (50%).