A "normal" Texture is set to soy.materials.Textured.colormap such that it changes the base colors (ambient, diffuse, specular) - those colors only reflect light available. In contrast, when a texture is set to soy.materials.Textured.glowmap it adds light, showing even in darkness, which is highly useful for a multitude of effects.

Modify the soy.materials.Textured rendering process such that a glowmap texture can be used with or without a colormap texture. Working code for this can be found in our old pysoy/src/materials/Textured.pym class (pre-libsoy).

Update or write an example in Python which uses a glowmap with flickering or fading light to really show the contrast.

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