Torque Lighting Kit for TGE 1.0

The Torque Lighting Kit is a powerful toolkit for TGE that enhances Torques lighting and rendering models, and adds flexible mission objects that significantly increase modeling possibilities.
So youre developing a game and you starting thinking to yourself, wouldnt it be perfect if you could create the feeling of a cinematic lens flare effect that you just saw in a movie.
The Torque Lighting Kit now enables developers to set the scene and mood of games by providing an easy-to-use editor with advanced effects and fast lighting management.
The Torque Lighting Kit is a powerful toolkit for the Torque Game Engine that enhances Torques lighting and rendering models, and adds flexible mission objectives that significantly increase modeling possibilities.
This must-have toolkit adds new mission light objects capable of illuminating multiple interiors, DTS objects and terrain - unlike interior light entities that only illuminate interiors. These light objects can be configured as static or dynamic, omni or spotlights, and even cast shadows.
Main features:
Lighting Model
- Enhanced lighting and rendering models create brighter and more vibrant worlds (affects all lighting including existing Torque lighting).
- Extended lighting intensity allows special effects such as overexposure and false specular highlighting.
- Increased contrast creates more vivid and better defined lighting and shadows.
- Two per-light sub-models for creating sharp (natural lighting) or smooth (pseudo global lighting) lighting.
- Interior lighting scale entity adds complex lighting detail to selected surfaces while maintaining optimal rendering and re-lighting performance. - new!
Mission Lights
- Mission light objects allow lighting to be edited in the mission editor without recompiling interiors.
- Mission lights uniformly illuminate multiple interiors, DTS objects and terrain.
- Static light objects support omni and spotlight baked light mapping, which allows complex lighting and shadowing without impacting performance.
- Static light objects support both lighting sub-models.
- Dynamic particle system light objects support flicker and flash effects that are directly related to a linked particle systems intensity.
- Enhanced interior dynamic lighting allows dynamic lights to illuminate dark interiors without washing out textures.
Semi Real-Time Light Editor
- Light editor allows real-time editing of light object datablocks through a user friendly GUI.
- View lighting changes in real-time on DTS objects and in semi real-time on interiors and terrain.
- Filtered re-lighting significantly increases lighting performance by only calculating interiors within the working area. - new!
- Advanced tools for creating, editing and cloning light datablocks.
- Shared light datablocks allow powerful light grouping and simultaneous group light editing.
Static Objects
- Static DTS objects cast shadows onto interiors and terrain.
- Powerful environmental lighting options including direct sunlight, interior/terrain light map, and custom illumination.
- Advanced self-illumination adapts to environment for tighter integration of self-illuminated objects into the scene.
- Custom ambient lighting allows object lighting to be hand tuned for special effects or complex scene lighting.
Source Code
- Includes fully integrated Torque Game Engine source code - just download and
- compile! - new!
- Allows debugging into the Torque Lighting Kit for easy customization and diagnosis. - new!
- Based on version 1.4 of the Torque Game Engine. - new!
Additional Features
- Does not create any additional rendering overhead.
- Supports the Torque volume light resource.
- Includes In-depth modeler docs.
- Full Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX support.