Lighting

This is the hub page for anything about lighting in maps.

In technical terms, lighting is fairly simple: place many Light actors in the map, rebuild and the map is lit. Good lighting is an essential part of a map's atmosphere.

Classes:

(UT stuff follows, needs updating & sorting)

Technical

The Light (UT), Light actor and its subclasses
Light properties are set at the actor level under Actor (UT)/Lighting, Actor/Lighting .

Static Lighting

Lighting Basics
Examples of Colors
Using Zonelight to provide ambient light to a whole unzoned level or a zoned subsection of a level.
Shadows?
using special lit & unlit surfaces
the lightbox decoration. Have DrawScale settings to make it line up perfectly to the more popular light textures.
Lightmap Errors

Dynamic Lighting

Obviously there'll be crossover from dynamics here.

triggered lights
worth mentioning here (and under sound too) the cunning trick of using TriggerLight to make triggered sounds that use a looped sound.
dynamic lights
Scripted Light Shows
the TriggerLight class spec
Movable Lights – How to make a light movable! By: ZxAnPhOrIaN

Lighting Effects

How to create (true and fake) fog
A Corona is a texture that looks like a flare and is applied at the light source. Its size is always the same relative to the screen. The effect often mistakenly called a "Lens Flare".
palette loop modulation
modulated light

Tutorials

Comments

Feel free to reorganize things, suggest new topics to cover and start new pages.

Sobiwan: We have Topics on Mapping and Topics on Materials as hubs, so either:

this page should become [Topics on Lighting]?
those page names should be truncated
they should all be renamed to something different such as topicname Hub.

I vote for #1.

Category Mapping
Category To Do
Category Class (UT)
Category Class (UT2003)