New script engines for lighting and water

[AsaSK]

Something ASM said the other week about Mafia being capable of imitating dynamic lighting struck a chord with me, so yesterday I thought I'd try and put together a script for pseudo-dynamic lighting/lightmaps. I also wrote a script for pseudo-dynamic water for Mr Robville's mod last year.
I was really pleased with how they turned out, most recently the lighting one, so I thought i'd show them here

Dynamic lighting

Dynamic water

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[huckleberrypie]

Dynamic time of day would be golden. Except that it would require one hell of a lightmap atlas in that case unless you move to real time shadow maps.

[ASM.]

Nice work!

[huckleberrypie]

[AMadeMan]

Awesome effects! As for the water, if the splash is a little smaller, the pool would be perfect.

I had no idea dynamic water and lighting was possible even if it is a pseudo effect. It looks great!

A dynamic day/night system would be very interesting since you could play various missions at different times. It would kinda screw up the story though, because some missions such as Fairplay and Visiting Rich People were designed to be played during night time.

[AsaSK]

Thanks for the responses I am a little concerned about the possibility of lag. The water script should be okay in this regard because it isn't constantly looping and waits for certain checks (despite being an absolute b*tch to code/debug; subroutines inside subroutines), but the flickering light I could see possibly lagging as the checks are being looped and activated constantly.

[AMadeMan]