Making a corner of the room shadowy?

kevaar

Is there a way to do this? Like an item that's the opposite of a placeable light? (Pleaceable dark?)

I made an Underdark map using one of the pre-made caves that has yellow light beams in a lot of the rooms. In order to make it properly Underdark-ish, I'd like to either cover these up or blot them out. (I am unfortunately way too lazy to make my own map.) Does anyone know of a good way?

For the record, the quest is Fox's Den, Chapter 3, author @kevaar, short code NW-DOGWT49G2

eskarine

I am not 100% sure it goes like this (can't log into the editor to check) but if it's an indoor map you should be able to right click on a room in layout mode and select 'no lights' for light options? You would be able to place your own lights then, without need to cover the pre-made ones?

reagenlionel1

Use depthfade effect.

herbalaw

You could use a Darkness Projector.

eldarth

herbalaw wrote: »

You could use a Darkness Projector.

A what now? I haven't seen any such thing in my foundry assets.

Cave rooms you can also right-clickj (in (2) Layout mode) and select lighting conditions.

zebular

eldarth wrote: »

A what now? I haven't seen any such thing in my foundry assets.

. . . Choose Details as the category then type in Projector. There are a slew of them, inlcuding Darkness ones. I've been using them them for a while now to darken corners and areas a tad more as well as the ones for spiderwebs and now we have more like snow and cracks. The Spiderweb and Darkness ones have been around since not too long after release, maybe a month or two post-release? Not sure as I am horrible with time.. I just know I've been using them in Act I and III of my campaign for several months now.

. . . I use depthfade mostly for unreachable locations such as tall ceilings or surrounding scenery as they are quite large and even the smallest ones can sometimes get in the way of an adjoining path in a winding dungeon.

eldarth

zebular wrote: »

. . . Choose Details as the category then type in Projector. There are a slew of them, including Darkness ones.

Wow. I somehow didn't notice that projector. I think I've even tested/used all the others! Thanks for shining a light on a blind spot! :-)

zebular

eldarth wrote: »

Wow. I somehow didn't notice that projector. I think I've even tested/used all the others! Thanks for shining a light on a blind spot! :-)

. . . Yep! They're pretty awesome. The Spiderweb ones can be a bit tricky. If you place it wrong, it will look like a bunch of 2 year olds TP'd whatever you put it by, lol. But if you place it just right, they make awesome webs.