Question on lighting

[Alienhead]

Hello,  for a couple days now I've been noticing this weird lighting effect - it's not happening editor side, which is usuall, but it happens game side.   I get very darastic lighting changes - almost night to day changes, just by rotating my camera around.

Here's a video -

 

Any idea what could be casuing this ??  skybox materials have no shadow casting on.

[Josh]

Hmmmm, I have not seen this before. Is the camera parented to another entity? Maybe that could be causing something weird in the camera projection matrix?

If you would like to upload a sample that produces this error I will look at it.

Very nice character animation / movement BTW.

[Josh]

It's a small detail, but the normal map for those rocks on the ground looks flipped. You can invert it in the texture editor.

[reepblue]

Is the camera a child of the player? Make sure the camera is updating it's position and rotation in the player's UpdateMatrix/UpdateWorld functions respectfully. 

Having the camera be a child of something causes weird things to happen.

[Alienhead]

Inverting the nromal map on the terrain layer fixed it..  phew.. ty guys

[Josh]

That's kind of strange. You would think it would mostly point straight forward? Maybe you should post a screenshot of the normal map here? It sounds like maybe it is not using the correct axes or something?

[Alienhead]

sure,

 

Attached norm.

[Josh]

The image looks normal to me...but I guess the problem is solved.

[Alienhead]

Thats the flipped version

 

[Josh]

Yeah, I was expecting something like the blue channel being completely black or something really obvious.