How Do I Modify Lighting?

[21ToWin]

Like the title says... How do I modify doodad lighting? How do I increase or decrease the amount of light a unit or doodad has? How do I put lighting on a unit or doodad? Can you change the tint of the light?

 

[Nymne]

You may want to read hell_knights tutorial about Custom Lightning Effects.
Link

It's a little complicated, but maybe that'll help!

 

[WindexIsBack]

You are talking about enviromental lighing.

If you have a 3dmodeling program (3dmax 5.0 with blizzard art tools; or blender with a user made plugin) you can create or modify wc3 default lighting.

However, you can not change wc3 shader, so applying it to invidual objects is out of the question as far as I know.


But you can tinker with lighting, it's direction, it's tint, and intensity. I'm not sure about blender, but make sure the light option "Enviroment" is set to true in 3dmax.

An example of using custom lights and removing the default lighting.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88795

 

[21ToWin]

I'm just trying to play with the light from stuff like torches or blue mushrooms. I'll try that modeling thingy.

That first pic looks like the appartments in half life 2. I've never seen WC3 looking so good...

 

[Cheesy]

Yea that was a great model with cool lighting.