This dome is thus outside the area where light would reach it if the lamp were to be turned on so it will need to have black vertex paint.ħ. Here I've selected the dome of the mesh because this dome is separated from the bulb by a solid stone part of the lamp. Select a part of your mesh that will require vertex paint. Switch to Face select and switch to Solid Shading again. Edit the shadow plane mesh group so it fits your new mesh as usual.Ħ. Delete the EA mesh group so that your mesh group and the shadow plane mesh group are all that remain. Note, your mesh group does not have to have the same name as the mesh group you are replacing but it does need to have the same cut number.ĥ. Change your mesh's cut number so that it matches the cut number of the EA mesh you are replacing. Switch back to textured shading if you like. Dark grey vertex painted parts will brighten less than parts with lighter grey vertex paint.ģ. Parts that are vertex painted black will be unaffected by the lamp light. In the game wherever there is white vertex paint the lamp mesh will brighten significantly when the lamp is turned on. The base of the lamp is almost black at the bottom and there is a grey gradient between these two extremes. You will note that the lamp shade is a very pale grey or white. This will allow you to see EA's vertex paint on the original item. Go to Vertex Paint mode and choose Solid Shading. Clone the EA lamp you wish to work with and click the Meshes tab.Ģ.

This tutorial will show you how to take advantage of vertex paint and light resource editing to fine tune the appearance of your lamp item in the game.ġ. Editing of the light resource allows fine tuning of the size of the light effect cast in the room around the lamp and where that light effect will appear in relation to the lamp. This picture shows the lamp used for the tutorial before the light resource was edited and before vertex paint was applied to the mesh compared to how it looks just sitting in a room with its light off and how it looks with light resource editing and vertex paint with the light turned on.Īs you can see vertex paint limits the light effect on the mesh allowing you to control which parts of the mesh will light up when the lamp is turned on and how much those parts will light up. They use vertex paint on the mesh to determine how much the light cast by the lamp will affect the lamp itself when the lamp is turned on and what parts of the lamp will be affected. EA's lamp items use the light resource to create a light effect that brightens spaces where the lamp is placed.

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