New lighting system

[joevenzon]

Alright, I've got a new lighting system set up. So far I've only got the static parts done. The changes are a new cube mapped texture-based-diffuse-lighting system plus a new cube mapped reflection system.

Here's the new diffuse lighting system. This shows the lighting contribution without any other textures:


And here's the same image with all of the textures applied and the new reflection mapping:


For comparison, here's the old lighting system and the old reflection mapping system:


The effect is certainly subtle. Some may like the way the old objects are lit, or the new systems may cause performance issues for some. The new lighting and reflection systems can be turned on and off independently (the GUI isn't set up to do this yet, though).

Here's another shot of the new system. Look at those sweet reflections!


Next I'll need to make an option to generate the lighting and reflections dynamically... so if you go through a tunnel, the car gets darker AND you can see reflections of the tunnel lights off of the car.