Radiance

Onos Ate Me · November 2011

<div class="IPBDescription">An in-game light editor</div>Radiance is a real-time light and sound editor.

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<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/Radiance.zip" target="_blank">Download Radiance</a>
<a href="https://github.com/DamienHauta/NS2Radiance" target="_blank">GitHub</a>

System Requirements
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17113" target="_blank">Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile</a>

Getting Started
<ol type='1'><li>Extract Radiance.zip</li><li>Run <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/1.png" target="_blank">MapExtractor/Rebuilder.exe</a></li><li><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/2.png" target="_blank">Select the level</a> that you want to edit
Optional: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/3.png" target="_blank">Select the folder</a> that you want to save backups to.
Backups will be created in this folder with the naming convention of mapname_{n}.level (e.g. ns2_summit_1.level, ns2_summit_2.level, etc.)</li><li>Click <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/3.png"" target="_blank">Extract entities</a> to allow this the level to be loaded into Radiance</li><li>When the <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/5.png" target="_blank">entities are extracted</a>, run <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/5.png" target="_blank">Radiance/Run NS2 + Radiance.exe</a>
(Note: keep Rebuilder.exe open while using Radiance)</li><li><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/7.png" target="_blank">Create a new server</a> on the map that you are going to edit.</li><li>When the level has loaded up, type <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/8.png" target="_blank">radiance </a>into the console</li><li><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/9.png" target="_blank">Modify the map</a> and press F8 to save the changes when you are finished</li><li>Rebuilder.exe will automatically detect the changes and saves the changes to the .level file. It will also create a backup beforehand if a backup folder has been supplied</li><li>When the level has been rebuilt, it is safe to <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/11.png" target="_blank">load up the level in the level editor</a></li><li><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/15.png" target="_blank">Make changes to the level</a> and <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/12.png" target="_blank">save the map</a></li><li>Rebuilder.exe will automatically detect the changes to the level and <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/13.png" target="_blank">extract the entities</a></li><li>When Rebuilder finishes extracting the entities, type <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/4/readme/images/14.png" target="_blank">radiance</a> into the console in NS2 to resync with the changes from the level editor</li></ol>
Shortcuts
F2: Brings up the mouse cursor
Left click: Select the entity that the mouse is over
Ctrl + Left click: Selects additional entities
F4: Deselect selected entities

F3: Create an ambient sound
Shift + F3: Create a reverb
F9: Create a point light
Shift + F9: Create or select the fog control
F10: Create a spot light
F11: Create an ambient light
Shift + F11: Create a fog area modifier

Left click drag on an entity: Move the entity
Alt + Left click: Selected spot lights will look to where your mouse is pointing
Shift + Left click: Moves the selected entity to where your mouse is pointing
Ctrl + H: Brings up the HSV editor

Numpad 8: Move the selected entities forward
Numpad 2: Move the selected entities backward
Numpad 4: Move the selected entities leftward
Numpad 6: Move the selected entities rightward
Numpad 9: Move the selected entities upward
Numpad 3: Move the selected entities downward

F5: Undo
F6: Redo
F8: Save
Ctrl+U: Updates all the radii for the lights. Use this if a light isn't rendering properly

<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53107776/radiance/Radiance.zip" target="_blank">Download Radiance</a>

Max · November 2011

I'm impressed you are updating the map to save the changes. Very cool.

simon kamakazi · November 2011

dude this looks great

Wilson · November 2011

Sexy! Really awesome dude.

aeroripper · November 2011

This looks amazingly useful. I thought the editor already updated the lighting dynamically, does loading the actual map in the game change very much? Are more lights added when the map loads than what is displayed in the editor? Also, do these remixed maps work on servers running the normal version? I imagine you would run into consistency issues if that was the case. Please forgive my ignorance.

So theoretically you could light your entire map in realtime in the game, then save the map like that? I imagine that would save an immense amount of time than getting everything just right in the editor, then loading it up and having it look different in the game due to height differences and such. Ideally, you would want your mouse to control the x,y,z of these light placements, so it would be even easier to flesh out lighting in your rooms. Simply create a light at the cursor, then drag it with the mouse to where you want it.

Flayra · November 2011

Impressive!

Kalabalana · November 2011

Seeing this sort of community development makes me very excited

Jibrail · November 2011

nothing short of amazing, this just shows the engine's capabilities and the true talent we have here in our little community.

Rulgrok · November 2011

Someone give this man a _____________

DY357LX · November 2011

Holy Crap "Onos Ate Me"! This is superb! Well done, keep up the awesome work.

culprit · November 2011

Is this multi-user capable or could it be made to work with multiple players making edits? That would be super awesome. You could have teams of lighting designers running around a map making tweaks!

This is really great tool even for a single user! Tools like this show how Spark is truly a robust 3D development platform.

twiliteblue · November 2011

What a fantastic tool for mappers! I love those modified lighting on Summit!

Onos Ate Me · November 2011

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (culprit @ Nov 15 2011, 08:33 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1885113"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>Is this multi-user capable or could it be made to work with multiple players making edits? That would be super awesome. You could have teams of lighting designers running around a map making tweaks!

This is really great tool even for a single user! Tools like this show how Spark is truly a robust 3D development platform.</div>

Multiplayer editing is disabled right now for security and project scope reasons. It's possible to edit maps on servers with other players playing vanilla ns but they wont see the changes.

Those that really want multiplayer editing right now could enable, <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/443640/httplistener-start-accessdenied-error-on-vista/445044#445044" target="_blank">in theory</a>, if the host changes the source code on line 24 in Server.cs in the Radiance.Server project from:
public readonly string UrlPrefix = "http://localhost:24852/";
to:
public readonly string UrlPrefix = "http://+:24852/";

then running this command in cmd.exe:
netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:24852/app user=domain\user

and connecting players change line 6 in Mod/lua/Radiance.lua from:
Server = "http://localhost:24852",
to:
Server = "http://<radiance host ip>:24852",

This is a huge security risk for the host however as there is no authentication or safety measures in place when saving and anyone on the internet would be able to connect to the server. Multiplayer (that is safe) is one of my top priorities for the next version but that might not come for a week or two.

Smaug · November 2011

Does this come in multiplayer?

Working on a map with a friend, would be amazing if we could both do this together and have it to save it to one/both computers.

Thisï»¿ mod is a godsend, thank you.

Edit: Nevermind!

Obraxis · November 2011

Very impressive work there! Great stuff - I'll be using this with my map. Thanks! :D

BarerRudeROC · November 2011

Nothing short of impressive.
Well done!

snooops · November 2011

Wow thats really cool!!! How much time did you spent for this?

Insane · November 2011

Wow, impressive! And that shot of the golden lighting bursting up between the floor panels looks really cool.

Sewlek · November 2011

very cool :)

pSyk0mAn · November 2011

Holy crap, that's amazing!
Good job!

Electr0 · November 2011

Very cool indeed, this will make lighting a map much more enjoyable, editor performance sucks when you turn lights on, i don't get how there can be such a difference in performance between the two, ideally they need to use the same engine and make it so you can jump in and out of the map like you're actually playing, similar to the crysis editor. :D

player · November 2011

I like how you're using round-trip web-requests to escape the Lua-sandbox, very clever thinking indeed.

Floodinator · November 2011

People like you make wan't to learn programing!
Really nice tool and its fun to mess around with the lights on the actual maps.

Zek · November 2011

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Onos Ate Me @ Nov 15 2011, 09:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1885098"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/507/2011111500002x.jpg/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7829/2011111500002x.th.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a></div>
Finally someone that understands real next-gen lighting. Take notes, UWE.

Kouji_San · November 2011

Amazing stuffs, I want this in SparkE... Somehow this feels like the start of Gmod for NS2 :P

Koruyo · November 2011

Wow, really cool stuff!!!

Now i wish, this would work as a basic feature from the map editor...

So you could kinda jump from editor view into ingame view (so no need to start an extra session of the game) where you can change stuff like this mod (which feels kinda like gmod)
+ have some kind of multiplayer feature so you could share a mapping session and do stuff live on the same map with multiple ppl over the internet...

Kinda like Crysis2 editor made a baby with Gmod.

Why dont we get this?

PS: Why dont we have light bouncing/<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k34H_JEp2aw" target="_blank">radiosity</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Qw05BUuss" target="_blank">translucency/sss</a> in spark yet btw?
Will any of this come at some point?

LPC · November 2011

massive... west stains massive.... booyakasha

NurEinMensch · November 2011

This is really cool! One thing I don't understand though. Isn't the editor supposed to do that already? I thought that was one of the selling points. I haven't really worked with the editor much, so maybe I am missing the obvious.

Obraxis · November 2011

I've webbed/pinned this topic :-) Don't want it lost to the void.

Wheeee · November 2011

adding to the chorus of praise. +1

ScardyBob · November 2011

+1 to the op's awesomeness and for making this part of the Spark tools.

I also wonder if all this cool stuff is heading towards an engine that will let mappers make maps while in-game rather than with an out-of-game editing tool. At the very least, allowing mappers to tweak moderate to major pieces of their map (think moving tech/res/power node locations, lighting, adding/deleting/changing props, etc) in-game would be a great addition to the spark engine imo.

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