I''m just wondering about OpenGL lighting. I''m well up on it, and everything, but I''m looking for some reassurance. You know in a game like Halflife, you have a flashlight. Well, I was trying to replicate this effect in my 3D engine, but I couldn''t. I have large polygons, and I was wondering if tessellating them into very small triangles would solve my problem... iNsAn1tY - the place where imagination and the real world merge... Try http://uk.geocities.com/mentalmantle

yes, tessellation is the way to go. the reason is (GL_SMOOTH) lighting is only per vertex lighting so you will not detailed spotlight effect with large polygons.

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