Terrain mesh lighting problems

Original Post

Mar 16, 2003 at 7:15 PM

My terrain doesnt appear to be lit very well (granted that my current texture is a grayscale image). I dont have any normals set on my terrain or any materials. Could it be my terrain''s lack of a material, normal, or just the world''s lighting (or all of the above)? thanks.

falkone

Mar 16, 2003 at 7:19 PM

Umm.. i''m not familiar with DX lighting.. but i think that normals are required for any lighting system..

flaXen

Mar 16, 2003 at 7:50 PM

For sure. Without normals, the lighting routines won''t work, period (short of maybe vertex programs generating them). Calculating surface normals is easy. Hit Google up for that.

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