Skyline Release V0.9.7 Release 5 - Pandora (01/12/2015)

[SolarPortal]

Hey Devs,
Well, Its the 1st of December which means a jolly fat man will be with us all at the end of the month... lmao

Anyway, we have a brand new version for you all to play with which has many new features and bug fixes for you which should enable many of you to get on with your developments again

Changelog here:


As Usual, we are happy to receive your comments and feedback and there are some recent forum posts which we will focus on for the next release

Thanks and enjoy your development
Your Skyline Dev Team.

[TattieBoJangle]

Ooo I will need to give this a test now

[SolarPortal]

Cool, well i hope it works for you

[CreativeOcclusion]

Lighting is really messed up...I guess it is the ambient light...When turning around light flashes brighter and darker...ambient light is brighter when playing in editor than the level it was set in editor...makes the textures look bad on the walls and some models...might have something to do with shader changes...I will try to get a video up if you need it...In 9.7.4 I could set the ambient in render settings and it would be the same in game...There was also no flashing of light going from lighter to darker...

EDIT...Here is a video...

[TattieBoJangle]

Yea I have noticed the spot light has changed and has a range type of thing

[CreativeOcclusion]

[TattieBoJangle]

I do think its a bug tho as a spot light adds light to the full scene other than the lights I'm loving the other add-on's your a wizard harry a wizard

here is a video on top of the one above

[TattieBoJangle]

[StarFire]

The lighting issue has emerged due to the main shader being fixed. The previous version had ambient issues ie if you used a spot light with no directional the ambient light was only in the lights visible spot which is incorrect. This meant turning up the ambient didn't affect the rest of the environment which is incorrect. Now the ambient floods the environment regardless of the light ( correct ).This has created a few minor issues in that the lighting attenuation required re balancing and earlier lights became over bright.
Possible solution is to grab the attenuation data from the default spot and add it to your own.

The rotation lighting error is a head scratcher not sure why this would be the case??

If you can not resolve the lights we can PM you the old base shader to over right the newer version. This would keep your lighting as it was. As for that there has been no other changes.

[StarFire]

Thought I would mention that your scenes were in total black so none of these other popping would have been visible, also why we have never notice the errors. Now we know they are they they have a chance of being fixed

Try Dropping your ambience slider and it should be as it was.?

[TattieBoJangle]

[CreativeOcclusion]

[StarFire]

Ambience can also be adjusted by using a darker ambient color. May help

[CreativeOcclusion]

[TattieBoJangle]

[CreativeOcclusion]

I think it will all be fixed, but will take some time...I don't really want to use another engine...I like SkyLine...

[TattieBoJangle]

Yea I agree m8 it needs lightmapping or something along they lines all in time as you say

[SolarPortal]

[CreativeOcclusion]

[StarFire]

Just had a quick play and the ambient section of the Uber shader fails when outside the lights cone of influence.

Ambience: To get you scenes to have no black objects when outside the light set the Render Panels ambient mode to No.4 - Basic Ambient. This is a quick temp solution. You will lose GI in the ambient portions but as these games rely on the black atmosphere this should not be a problem

I will try to set up a corridor atmosphere and see what happens!

[CreativeOcclusion]

[TattieBoJangle]

The lights don't seem to work on the terrain for me, also how do I stop it from lighting up the whole world with just 1-2 spot light lol I have tried all the usual setting

[StarFire]

Just out of curiosity Tatty did you remove the directional light!

[TattieBoJangle]

Yea it seems to be a bug when multiple lights are used

[StarFire]

The terrain requires the multi light setting to be enabled to manage multiple lights.

If using a normal scene and adding multi lights; change the render panels ambient option to multi light.