Try setting it's compatibility mode to WinXp (if it even has that option).

That was the first thing I did, nothing. In XP now... *works fine...*

i would help somemore but,my new GPU wont run the sims,and im waiting for a new PSU for my second comp, old one blew up. *sigh* I wonder how my poor simmies are doing without me

Well, I'm booting into XP now...

Um... What exactly is it that I'm supposed to be doing here again?

Got me.

I'll play with it tomorrow. Ill change that one directional thing and tweak values from there to... I guess make the lights took good?

It's nice to see someone else working on this.

I do have a small number of questions though.

1. Regarding lighting, I'm trying to make the 6:00 PM time slot a little brighter.

Also, I would like to be able to make it gray-green ambient rather than have everything be red. (So I can use the 6:00 PM time in accordance with sky filters and create stormy weather scenes.)

I would settle for a subtle orange ambience for the afternoon if I knew how to set that. But somehow, having everything be rich red just doesn't look right.

2. I know GunMod himself showed no interest in doing this, but if it's not asking too much, I was curious if there were ways to make the shadow distribution compatible with Riva cards.

I don't mind the Maxis way of doing it with walls that are non-textured. I can always fix those with Photoshop. But everything else can be a bother.

3. Is there a way to make sunlight a little less yellow...even neutral white? I like to go in to screenshots sometimes with my own lighting effects in Photoshop, and sims with glaring yellow spots on their foreheads are rather challenging to work with.

If you have any advice, I'd be more than happy. I've tried tweaking the 2.1 version. The sky isn't as red, but the objects are still too red.

UPDATE
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WARNING:
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NVidia Riva TNT2/Pro users:

--Do NOT overwrite the userstartup.cheat file.

--Also, do NOT put the RLSShaders.package file in the Downloads folder.

Leaving these out will make the hack work mostly like 2.1.

Adding them will mess up your animations, confuse your lights completely, and cause everything to glow alternating shades of red.

The only thing in the startup file that does anything is "boolprop UseShaders false". As long as you have it, any changes will work fine.

Run that by me again? Are you saying that setting "useShaders false" will prevent the red problem or cause it?

I'm not really sure how useful the startup.cheat file is. I saw some cheats in there already that worked, but when you enter the moveobjects cheat to it, that doesn't. I still end up manually typing moveobjects every time.

Perhaps that's a little off-topic, but does raise a point. How useful is the userstartup.cheat file?

All I was saying is that that line in the only functional line in this mod's startup file.

Okay, I have the same problem here but I have the LightRigs and object folders in my Lights folder! I don't know what haaappened. Is there another reason why this may be happening or is my computer just... dumb?

Welcome back traveller. If you like, Chocolate Pi, I can point you to the version I compiled with the OFB and FFS lights and the debugged bumpmaps. Just let me know.

I have a few questions:
1.Can I just download gunmod's 2.1 back up file, or do I still have to back up the files you listed?
2.As for the EP, do I need to back up for all Eps I have?
3.Can you give the exact location (the file path) of file no 3, and 4?
4.Is the installation guide the same as gunmod's 2.1?

I installed gunmods 2.1 lighting mod when I had all the current expansion packs installed (including open for business and family fun stuff) and it worked great.

However, I just installed Glamour Life Stuff expansion pack and I am not sure whether I should use the 2.1 or this new 2.2 version. There is a lot of text to read and I am confused so can someone answer a few questions for me?

1) What bugs are there for the 2.2? Is 2.2 stable?
2) Does 2.1 or 2.2 work with this new expansion pack?
3) Should I use 2.1, 2.2 or none at all?

to gohan2091

1) Yes! 2.2 is stable, but bumpmaps don't seem to work on some computers,
2) My guess, Yes
3) 2.2! defenitly 2.2.
4)will this work for the new pets! EP. That cant be answered yet. My guess, Yes

Glamour Life Stuff expansion pack/ boster pack. adds new stuff but dosent change old stuff. so it will work fine,but new lights will most likley not work


Edit: sorry! misred thought 2 referd to the upcoming pets EP.

Thanks, just put 2.2 into my game and it looks good, especially the water!

the pool is purple????? i did the false and true i dont see the ripple thingy

it works great in Window XP but doesn't work at all in my Window ME. Why is that, I want it

Quick question
I have NL,ofb, and GL. Which folder should I put the program files part of this in? I tryed Nl, but upon loading my meghiborhoods my game crashed. Then I tryed NL and GL it let me load everything, but the mod wasn't active. I have yet to try in all of them b/c I am done tonight. Any help is apreciated.

when my sims enter a totally dark room the lights dont go on. is this normal with the radiance light system or not ?

how can I fix that ? the rooms are sooo dark that it takes a while til I find a light n turn it on ...

a screenshot of my prob you can find here:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthre...=1&page=2&pp=25

Since the Radiance is so popular, and GunMod is no longer available, I guess that no one will complain about this... :

14 SEPT 2006 - CEP v. 4.2 (Glamour + Radiance) released
Among the other features:

• Built-in Radiance Lighting Mod (by GunMod) - In order to ensure the maximum compatibility between the custom light support provided by the CEP and the Radiance Lighting Mod, I've decided to merge the two mods in the same installer; obviously, this is the CEP installer, and therefore you can install the Radiance only in addition to the CEP.

The new CEP installer contains the Radiance in both version 2.1 and the 2.2 (of course, only one can be installed at a time...).
The installer also contains a special "uninstall" feature that restores the original Maxis files when removing the Radiance.

Just to be sure that all the Radiance-lovers read this, I'm quoting here one of the CEP FAQs (sorry for the cross-posting ):

The water reflections look spectacular but please allow me to throw in some point that doesn't suit my taste. The light falloff distance is way too short. Take the screenshot with the ceiling lamp for instance: The room is almost dark with it. According to the picture with the statues I'd have to place a ceiling lamp at every third square to make a room comfortably bright. Also the pool lights seem to have almost no effect.

I had this hack forced upon me when i downloaded a lot. I had to delete 2 files from the sims 2 folder in My Documents and then reinstall the whole game plus EP's.
Despite putting a light on nearly every square outside it would never seem to light my sims up at night plus inside the hair would be brighter than the rest of the sim!!!!

Nvidia Geforce 6200 LE Driver version 91.47

Next time, the new CEP installer can help you restoring the original Maxis files: just run the installer and choose "CEP only / Restore Maxis lights". The only thing that the installe can't do, in a situation like yours, is restoring the userStartup.cheats located in MyDocuments\EA Games\The Sims 2\Config. Unless you have edited it personally, you can just delete it.

Anyway, I'm curious, because the Radiance mod is NOT supposed to be exported along with the lots (it's a bunch of text files; only the shaders are in a package in the Downloads folder).
Which files have you deleted from your Sims2 folder?