Hi Crusoe, that's how it currently works. The new option also works this way, you get to specify a new direction but it is defined to be relative to the current view.

MoI uses a slightly unusual type of double-sided lighting to help reduce the amount of darkened areas in a scene. For example if you draw a sphere if you look at it you can see that there is a band of darkness only around the middle of the sphere instead of the back region of the sphere being totally dark.

This is pretty unrealistic lighting, but it helps to reduce the dark areas to smaller bands and shows off more contours of your objects.

- Michael

Ok, this is ready for the next beta.

To make it work you'll have to define a keyboard shortcut. You do that by closing down MoI, then editing the moi.ini file (which contains settings). The file is located here: C:\Documents and Settings\[your login name]\Application Data\Moi\moi.ini . You'll add this line:

[Shortcut Keys]
L=script:var dir = moi.view.lightDirection; if ( dir.x == 1 && dir.y == 1 && dir.z == -1 ) { dir.set(-0.5,1,0); } else { dir.set(1,1,-1); } moi.view.lightDirection = dir;

That stuff for L= should all be one long single line.

This will define a keyboard shortcut for L that will toggle the light direction, between the standard direction:




and this alternate direction:




I can help you tweak the script if you want the alternate light from some slightly different direction than that.

It looks like it will be a few more days yet before the next beta is ready.

- Michael

Hi Michael,
Thanks for the new light tweak but I am getting an error when I try to use it.
Did I do something wrong? It's all on one line just like you stated but I can't seem to get it to work :(

Regards,
Richard

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Thanks for the new light tweak but I am getting an error when I try to use it.
Did I do something wrong? It's all on one line just like you stated but I can't seem to get it to work :(
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It wont be ready until the next Beta (which hasnt been released yet).

Yup, sorry for the confusion - what I wrote is what will work, once you get the new beta in a few days from now, it won't work on the current beta.

Ok :)
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Thanks,
Richard