[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/bugs/3074 Item 3074] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 19:58:38

I am getting unexpected lighting behavior when firing a weapon. I imagine this is related to the dynamic lighting effects. Surfaces in odd places light up very brightly, while others get very dark.

In the screenshot attached, you can see how the floors on the insides of the buildings are very bright, and some walls are very bright, but they don\'t really correspond to the game world (ie - surfaces are lit that wouldn\'t be lit by the position of the flames).

Compiled on Nov 30. ufoconsole.log is cluttered with error messages because I was testing a WIP hud.
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====== natewr (2011-12-05 08:36:15) ======


====== natewr (2011-12-05 08:37:43) ======


====== tlh2000 (2011-12-05 16:14:54) ======

also see the patch on the tracker about changed weapon particles light parameters
====== alextishin (2012-03-07 00:55:42) ======

Found the reason. TANGENTS attribute array is being disabled for the surfaces that do not have a normalmap, resulting in incorrect positioning of lights in the tangentspace of said surfaces. You can't construct a proper tangentspace without a tangent vector, after all :)

Working on the bugfix.
====== alextishin (2012-03-07 11:37:17) ======

Should be fixed by 1d44242cb54524913f83a57651eb9eacc3d760e3
====== aduke1 (2012-09-19 22:29:19.692000) ======

- **status**: pending --> closed
- **milestone**: --> 2.0-RC2