Copypasta: Light Spell Lampshade

Gubbles · Jun 26, 2014

I hate to copypasta an earlier thread I created in a different area of the forums, but I'll do it once here, this release, in those hopes to get a bit more exposure..

Tarsin said: ↑

I have a request -- implement some sort of lampshade effect on the Light Spell. I can't stop staring at the levitating sphere of light when its dark out. I've gotten used to the glare, but it is somewhat distracting.

I think it would be cool if the brightest light was at a ~ 230 degree angle, and beyond that the light would become more diffused and fade to a dark spot. The light could track the direction of the camera, this way the dark spot of the sphere would be visible from the player perspective. As an additional effect, the sphere could average the camera movement in its tracking, and lag behind half a second or so -- I think it would give the sphere a more supernatural feel to it, as if it were alive and responding to my movements by compensating for the direction it focused its light relative to the direction of the camera.

Its late, so I don't know if this makes much sense, but in any case, the sphere below hopefully gives you an idea of what I imagine the sphere might look like as a light source. I found this on google, so its not angled like I had hoped for, but basically if you picture yourself behind the dark spot of the sphere, where the light is emanating from the lighter colored portion, that is basically my thought behind all of this.

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