look at the 4 shadows, they overlap when the body is near to the ground and the effect that is created is really similar to the ambient occlusion. Is it possible to use a similar technique to fake ambient occlusion?
4 spotlights set to shadow only and parented to the player should do the trick.
However, I believe that a better way to do ambiant occlusion is to have a plane (or possibly 6) that scales and takes its alpha value from the players distance to other objects.
you can have a lamp inside the charecter with its properties inverted, to make it dark, here is a tutorial i made:
http://vimeo.com/4459930
http://vimeo.com/4461124
Alternately you could use an SSAO script, and have actual ambient occlusion in your game.
i tried something like that but it doesn’t work on with glsl enabled
i tried your method and it works, but is there a way to make it darker?
turn the energy up
problem, i’ve attached the pictures. the first one is what happens when i press the p button, the second one is in the game engine before i press the p. what do you think is the problem?
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Same thing that happens to 8mike is happening to me. The lamp still emits light in the GE, even when negative is on.
only 248a-down and 25-up do negative lighting, just another weirdness.