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Lighting Limits Direct X

Lighting Limits Direct X, Custom Light algorithms

grnEyeDvl	30 Oct, 2009 - 03:01 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 28 Oct, 2009 Posts: 10	Hi I'm working with Direct X 9 (c++) and i am interesting in writing an algorithm that does not use the default lighting methods, in basic to create a very simple stripped down lighting engine that goes behind the limit to 8 lights per scene could anyone point me in the right direction to a tutorial or a working example of a directx light engine. thanks all for reading.
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Tom9729	RE: Lighting Limits Direct X 30 Oct, 2009 - 10:26 AM Post #2
Debian ninja Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 2,144 Thanked: 53 times Dream Kudos: 425 My Contributions	The 8 light limit is per polygon (not per scene).
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grnEyeDvl	RE: Lighting Limits Direct X 30 Oct, 2009 - 10:57 AM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 28 Oct, 2009 Posts: 10	QUOTE(Tom9729 @ 30 Oct, 2009 - 10:26 AM) The 8 light limit is per polygon (not per scene). Thanks tom, is there a way to increase this will custom lighting?
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Tom9729	RE: Lighting Limits Direct X 30 Oct, 2009 - 11:09 AM Post #4
Debian ninja Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 2,144 Thanked: 53 times Dream Kudos: 425 My Contributions	Try just enabling the 8 closest lights to the model you're rendering.
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Aeternalis	RE: Lighting Limits Direct X 30 Oct, 2009 - 01:24 PM Post #5
D.I.C Regular Joined: 13 Jul, 2009 Posts: 273 Thanked: 25 times My Contributions	What would you need more than 8 lights on a single polygon for? Just about any realistic effect can be created within that limit.. is there a true need for this? Aet
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