This implements the proposal made in the forum for "shiny" materials -
material can now determine the angle at which the most light is reflected.
Shiny materials might set this lower to approximate a "reflection" effect,
and increase the "spottiness" at the same time. To compensate for the
lack of brightness without light, "emittance" can be used.
Not sure this is the most elegant way to model this - the "proper" way
here would be to have emittance, shading and specular as three separate
light parameters instead of molding one into the other and using the third
to compensate.
Furthermore, this reorganises shaders in a major way: We reduce the
number of shader files down to three, pushing a number of possible
configurations into preprocessor. I believe this should be easier to
understand, which for the moment trumps theoretical extensibility
benefits.
This introduces a new texture, an ambient light map, that is generated
automatically at the beginning of the round by the sky portion of the
landscape. This basically makes everything that is close to sky visible
by default.
The shaders have been adapted so that they deploy direction-independent
lighting for the ambient component, and the current (diffuse) behaviour
for the diffuse component. This makes the shaders use an additional
texture unit that represents the ambient light. We can think about merging
this information into the light texture, but the coordinate systems are
different at the moment, so this could be performed at the stage of light
texture generation.
For meshes, the ambient material is not actually used, but instead a
diffuse light from the front is used. This makes many meshes look more
interesting, maybe also because the ambient material setting of most
meshes are not set correctly at the moment.
Armin Burgmeier