Doomsday Engine

ok here's an idea of mine for an a bit more realistic look
i hope i can get the idea acroos well in english

as an example for the "problem" in the first level after
going through teh first door turn either left or right
90degrees, walk forward into the corner and turn to the
2 enemies
you'll see a part of the room (in duke3d it's called
a "sector" i think, don't know about doom) that is
brighter than the rest, matching the light source on top
when the oponents walk in/out this "sector" they
instandly turn brighter/darker

to sum the 2 problems up:
1. a rectangle with sharp edges is not how light form a
source hitting a surface looks like
2. the instand change of brightnes of objects looks
wrong

my ideas to solve it:
1. when you have a border that has the same texture on
both sides but with different brightness, then render the
border softer, making a little fade between the 2
brightnisses
2. when an object moves from a sector to another and
changes bightness because of that let the change take
some time, depending on it's speed, like half a second
for a running enemy

i hope that can be added :)

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