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Basso71 on 4/10/2013 at 10:17

I've built some lightobjects in the past, streetlanterns, walllanterns etc.

Now I was trying to create a ceiling lamp(after someone asked for a nice chandelier here)
with 8 candles or lights. For each light source I created a Vhot. I knew, there exist a
chandelier with 9 Vhots from DarkArrow.

No matter what I do with my own chandelier, in Dromed, it doesn't really work. Light and shadow isn't correctly.
So my Vhots are like this: @h01Light to @h08Light. Even when I put the Objects together(Blender) STRG+J to one object and call it Light, it's ever the same.

Then I read that an object can handle only 3 vhots so I built one with 3 vhots and the same with just one vhot(Screenshot). The Object itself is called Light but on both, the lights and shadows are the same, I can see no difference. I have no idea what I do wrong.

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GORT on 4/10/2013 at 10:34

Where is @h01Light located at? That is your main light source / corona point. With the chandeliers I've made, I had 9 vhots. Vhots 2-9 were for particle attachments for each candle or light on the chandelier.
I haven't test this theory out, but you could try to have some kind of a particle attachment to the other vhots that give off some kind of lighting. Like I said, I'm not sure if this works.

The Watcher on 4/10/2013 at 12:05

Yes, it does; see my (http://thief.starforge.co.uk/wiki/Objects:Lights_and_torches#Ornate_streetlights) ornate streetlights for an example. In that case, vhot 1 is used as the light emission point in one lamp housing, vhot3 is the particle attachment point for the glowball particle effect, and vhots 4 and 5 are used to detailattach omnilightpoint fnords. You can do the same sort of thing, attaching multiple light-emitting particle groups if you want.

Basso71 on 5/10/2013 at 18:02

Quote Posted by GORT

The 01 vhot on the test object, on the screenshot, is in the middle. On my chandelier it's by the candles. I opened the chandelier from DarkArrow in Blender and append the vhots to my object too. In my opinion, the light and shadow effects on his object seems correctly but It doesn't work.

So what I can do is, I put 8 vhots in Blender and the User linked OmniLightPoints via detailattachment for each one.(Not the best solution :( )

@the Watcher
I saw your JackO' Lanterns, verry nice and lowpoly:thumb: I built a pumpkin and a JackO' too for a while after I found a good tutorial on the net. Both look very nice but... there were too big, to many polygons.

R Soul on 7/10/2013 at 20:46

Quote Posted by Basso71

So what I can do is, I put 8 vhots in Blender and the User linked OmniLightPoints via detailattachment for each one.(Not the best solution :( )

Try setting up the links in the hierarchy. Make a new archetype for the chandelier, then make a child of OmniLightPoint with suitable light values. Add the DetailAttachment links between the archetypes. That's essentially how torches and lamp posts work, but with ParticleAttachment instead.

Basso71 on 10/10/2013 at 23:01

Hi R Soul, thanks for that! I did this but no matter, I'm not satisfied with the result. Maybe I'm too harsh to myself.

Thanks folks