Corona effect and light rays

[mikem]

Does anybody know a possibility to add coronas and light rays like in Half-Life or SIN?

[grieve[Q2C]]

well, I guess this would have to be hard-coded in the engine or the gl_dll.

or maybe with shaders ? dunno how far the shader support in kmquake2 is developed.

[mikem]

I think light rays in SIN an HL are brushes but I need some good textures.

[grieve[Q2C]]

or do you mean light cones, like in Musashi's Broken Shadows ?

if so, you can find the textures in the archive of his map.

[mikem]

Yes, thank you. This will help me. Now only coronas are on the to-do list.

[knightmare]

You will need to set the nolightenv surface flag (0x01000000) for light cones in KMQ2 to disable lightmaps and envmapping on them.

Coronas would require an autosprite type of shader that KMQ2 doesn't have. KMQ2's shader support is only a small subset of Q3's and only works via the model scripting system.

[mikem]

I think the effect fits in well:




I didn't know that this corona effect is so complicated to implement.