re:lighting code, question

["tuan (t.) doan" <tdoan@bnr.ca>]

In message "lighting code, question", 
'thomas@chaupher.gsfc.nasa.gov' writes:

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>
>	Hi all, I have been working on a lighting code for CF. Right
>	now I am near the finishing stages of a "development" code,
>	but one thing needs doing still--treatment of effects of 
>	lighting on monsters.
>
>	Right now, line-of-sight (los) is only calculated for the 
>	players (I wont describe the scheme here). For monsters, 
>	I imagined that if the monster object (mon) had 
>	QUERY_FLAG(mon, FLAG_SEE_INVIS) no effect by lighting 
>	occured. Otherwise, some treatment of the monster wisdom
>	flag could be done to limit monster detection of players.
>
>	Of course, I am only guessing at the use of monster wisdom
>	here. Could some knowledgable individual inform me how 
>	the code goes about treating monster detection of players?
>	Is mon->stats.Wis the radius of detection? How does stealth
>	effect monster detection? I notice that Wis==0 monsters 
>	still detect players! Does this mean that there is a 
>	(default) minimum detection radius?
>
>					thanks, b.t.

Good grief man, don't you have a job! ;-)  Are you using bitmap masking
(ala stipple) to display various lighting intensity?  That way both mono
and color works out ok and you don't have to create new bitmaps.

Regards.