Paar on 15/4/2013 at 17:44
Hi. In Thief 2, sometimes I see somewhat purplish shadows around light sources (see the screen). Is this a normal behaviour? Is there any way to fix it? Didn't test the first Thief game but I'm asuming there is the same problem since both games are using the same engine. My graphics card is AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT. Thanks!
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Tomi on 15/4/2013 at 18:01
Hmm. I believe that that's often a sign of messed up lighting in the mission itself. It could just be a bug (or a "feature") that no one has bothered to fix... Do you see those colours everywhere or just in some certain few places? Is that screenshot from the original Thief 2 or some fan mission?
If you've been playing some fan missions, you might want to consider re-installing Thief 2. But please wait until someone else (with more knowledge) replies before you do anything. :p
Paar on 15/4/2013 at 18:48
It's an official mission (third mission to be precise). The weird shadow effect is not everywhere but it's quite common. Right now I'm playing the fourth mission and it suffers from the same problem. By the way I applied patch 1.20.
voodoo47 on 15/4/2013 at 19:39
this is the colored lightning, and it has always looked like that with 16bit lightmaps. this can be fixed by using NewDark, and relighting the maps into 32bit. TafferPatcher will eventually include relit maps.
Paar on 16/4/2013 at 12:12
Quote Posted by voodoo47
this is the colored lightning, and it has always looked like that with 16bit lightmaps. this can be fixed by using NewDark, and relighting the maps into 32bit. TafferPatcher will eventually include relit maps.
So there's no way (yet) to easily fix it? Guess I'll just have to wait for the relit maps and in a meanwhile enjoy the game as it is. Thanks for the info.
voodoo47 on 16/4/2013 at 13:49
unless you have some Dromed skills, yes, you should probably wait for the Tafferpatcher update. getting the lighting right is not a simple thing.
