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Satya

Point Light doesn't look good...
Oct 28^th, 2009, 12:52pm

I made a flat surface in processing and added a point light on the top of it. But it doesn't look good at all. I mean, in all other programs Point lights look like in the following image. bit.ly/3Qcbbw . This screenshot was taken in Blender, but the point lights in other programs like AE, motion look the same too. But in processing, the best i can get is like the following screenshot bit.ly/20OngA . Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
P.S.: Couldn't post complete links because this is my first post.

Cedric

Re: Point Light doesn't look good...
Reply #1 - Oct 28^th, 2009, 1:24pm

i had the problem too... you can get some much better results if you divide your surface into a mesh...

see this sketch and press mouse button to see the difference

void setup(){
size(500, 500, P3D);
background(255);
noStroke();
sphereDetail(35);
}

void draw(){

//lights();
pointLight(151, 202, 226, 235, 440, 80);
pointLight(251, 22, 226, 205, 240, 80);
pointLight( 151, 222, 6, 305, 140, 80);

fill(215,220,210 );
translate(100,100);
int res = 100;
if(mousePressed)res=1;
for(int i = 0; i<res; i++){
beginShape(QUAD_STRIP);
for(int j = 0; j<=res; j++){

vertex(i*300/res,j*300/res);
vertex((i+1)*300/res,(j)*300/res);

}endShape();
}}

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Satya YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: Point Light doesn't look good... Reply #2 - Oct 28^th, 2009, 1:40pm Awesome! Subdivision did the trick! It definitely looks a lot better now..

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