[APP] I dug up my old Lightmap extraction application for Mental Ray Lightmapping

So, would there be a way to get this to work in conjunction with gmax?

The blurry shadow crap Sapien gives me fills my heart with sorrow.

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Originally Posted by Botolf

So, would there be a way to get this to work in conjunction with gmax?

The blurry shadow crap Sapien gives me fills my heart with sorrow.

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I don't think gmax has mental ray.

True, but there are ways to render in gmax, I'm just curious if there's a specific addon that would support something like this.

one question jahrain
do you need this app to export your own lightmaps for texture baking for models that you made (and are ready to compile) or is there another way

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Originally Posted by kenney001

I used texture baking for the first time, and within 20 minutes of downloading this:

[pic was temporarily kidnapped]

raytraced shadows.......this could be exciting to play with...

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That looks cool, anyone wanna run that through a few other maps :D

Here was an example I posted long ago when I announced this tool.

This is what it should look like after you baked the textures (Maya).

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Originally Posted by jahrain

oh, btw, heres my lightmaps i generated for Bloodgulch.
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/4...5320956jo3.jpg
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3...5322487ln9.jpg

Notice how sharp the shadows are, and also the quality of lighting on th scene. I'll get this ingame for a better idea of what the final product will look like compared to the best you could get from sapien.

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And this is ingame:

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Originally Posted by jahrain

Ok heres what it looks like ingame. Btw, this in CE, not Halo 2, my H2EK Sapien doesn't work for me, but it works the same way.

Heres Bloodgulch's lightmaps which were generated in sapien
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/7...6064990ou3.jpg


And heres a comparison shot of what I did with Mental Ray
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/9...6024895ee7.jpg
notice the shadows almost match the detail of the vehicles on the scene


heres some more:
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/6...6031732zg9.jpg
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/8...6035881gd9.jpg

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Originally Posted by jahrain

http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/8...1305658no3.jpg
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/3...1320055zg8.jpg
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1...1324945xq2.jpg
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6...1334156ex6.jpg
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8...1334853ns6.jpg
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4...1353950vo1.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2...1360595br2.jpg



Oh and this is what the lightmaps bitmap that I had to compile looks like:
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/3...copyou6.th.jpg
Beware, this is extremely huge; click it after you open it to blow it up to full size (about 2100 x 9500 pixels).

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yes i'm just getting into Technical parts of mapping, what ecxactly are Lightmaps?

nvm

This, btw, will also work for any other renderer, such as Vray. It all depends on use.

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Originally Posted by SuperSunny

This, btw, will also work for any other renderer, such as Vray. It all depends on use.

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:awesome: I was just about to ask if it would work with Vray.