DeleD Community Edition

Jeroen · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:43 am Post subject: DeleD 0.90 LITE released!

Finally, after over 3 months of hard work, DeleD 0.90 LITE has been released! This version has lightmapping and a more flexibel plugin-system installed and also contains new levels, prefabs and textures. Go get your free copy at the Download section. Very Happy

Feel free to discuss the latest version here or in the DeleD forum.

Nocturn · DeleD PRO user Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 635

Really cool and new Featrues! It's now more fun to play with different things, and the lightmapping : excellent!

Awsome Work Delgine Team!

Mr.Fletcher · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:09 pm Post subject:

Very well done, gonna take a closer look at it later.

btw: I think its a bit mean to forbid using directional/spot lights and lightmap options in the light version, if the pro version doesn't already exist! Wink

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condrula · Member Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 62 Location: Rome, Italy

I like it very much Very Happy

Daaark · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:23 pm Post subject:

Finally, lighting, my favourite part of making maps.

I remember back in the old days with those GOOD editors when all you had to do was start lighting then wait a few hours while the lightmapper did it's work, and then come back, save everything and load up a game to check out the shadows.

Deled Sucks because it's so quick, and you can see the results right in the window.... hmm wait... Very Happy

This is great. It's fun just moving the light and watching how it affects all the shadows almost instantly.

Why does some of the help file now load up your site though? Confused

Paul-Jan · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:23 am Post subject:

mogspectral · Guest

i just want to say good work ! i have been using deled for 3month now and it's really a wonderful soft !

sorry for my bad english but i'm french

i have only one thing to ask you, what do you call materials in fact .? Rolling Eyes

Paul-Jan · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:35 pm Post subject:

Simply put, you could see materials as Textures-With-Better-Features Wink

Right now, materials are a combination of multiple layers of textures, with attributes defining how these layers interact (blend, add up, multiply, etc). In the future, we'll probably support layers that are just a single color, or have other special attributes.

For you, as a user, there is not that much difference at the moment, because the GUI only support single-layer Materials. So for now, you could just think of materials as textures. Lightmapping is implemented as an extra (lightmap) layer of the textures, but that is all "under the hood".

In the (not too distant) future more of the materials features will be 'unleashed' through the GUI, and then you can start having some fun.

The concept of 'materials' is followed by most major packages (3D Studio, SoftImage, Maya) as well as a lot of 3D engines. That's not to say we are hanger-ons, just that other people think it's a great concept as well Very Happy

khris · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject:

lightmapping finally!!! man this is great and lighting just makes everything look so real now.

only problem....(cowers) jus that my old texturepacks dont seem to be affected by lighting in any way, is this because these are identified as "textures" and not "materials"?

also, how can u change to a new texturepack in this edition?

soz, jus tryin to crack on with finishin some levels so i had to inquire lol.

amazin job anyway, cant wait till pro is released Wink

Edit: soz jus found the thread explainin that lol, ill try that in a sec and see how it works Wink

khris

Paul-Jan · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject:

If you don't see any effect when lightmapping, make sure to check the Ambient (color) Scene property. I might be set to 255, 255, 255 (pre-0.863 default value), which means your lights won't have any effect at all (as anything is fully lit up by the ambient lighting anyway). You will probably want to change this to a dark gray (64, 64, 64 is the new default value).

The Scene Properties is where you'll find the 'select your texturepack here' option as well.

I hope that gets you sorted out, if not, just yell Smile

khris · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:34 pm Post subject:

wow

i see light. (thanks btw)

Jeroen · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject:

A slightly newer version has been put online. Turns out DeleD contained a bug in the DMF save-routine which caused some objects to be removed when loading such DMF again. This problem has been solved and a new package has been put online. You can also download the EXE only if needed.

Note: it is perfectly possible that some more bugs might show up in the next few days. These will be solved and new versions will be put online accordingly.