[WIP] Nightfall

I modeled the structure and the cliffs with plane modeling, then the outside sniper base with box modeling. The ground was just filled in with triangles that fit between the two buildings and the manhole. There's no coplanar faces there or anything. I've only got two errors on my map; a few degerenate triangles inside that don't really matter because you can't see them and they don't make any difference.

Here's lightmaps on super. As you can see, there's still odd black surfaces where there shouldn't be. Some parts of the surface are lighter than other areas, or darker than they should be.

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8885/capturetf3.png

Apply a test standard material to the entire level...if the error still occurs it's a geometry error. ;)

I didn't have the problem when there was no material there before. It must be something I did when I added on the shaders, but it makes no sense. Once I'm done doing these lightmaps, I'm gonna try applying my cliff shader to the problematic walls and see if it's truly my shaders. That'll narrow it down.

I've seen this same thing before. Download Mothergoat's Anxiety and go to the areas under the flag bases. One of the pillars sades from the normal skin to black, just like your errors. I have no idea what causes this, but if you could look at Anxiety you might be able to figure what went wrong there.

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Originally Posted by Conscars

I didn't have the problem when there was no material there before. It must be something I did when I added on the shaders, but it makes no sense. Once I'm done doing these lightmaps, I'm gonna try applying my cliff shader to the problematic walls and see if it's truly my shaders. That'll narrow it down.

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That is indeed correct, sir. :awesome:

Also, I don't have the H2EK but can we modifie lightmaps again like in the HEK? Is it still a bitmap? :D

Yes, it is. Jahrain's got an app that can let take mental-ray lighting on your level from max, and put it into your level so you don't have to use shitty halo lightmapping.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1780/captureil9.png


it is definitely a shader/material problem

lol triple post

this gets weirder. All I did was switch my shader back from the cliff to the pavement, and the problem seemed to fix itself...

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6981/capturetd1.png


:wts:

more updates and quadruple post :awesome:

I fixed the wall shader, but that somehow made my road and structure floor shaders stop working. I just fixed the road shader again, look my road shader is happy:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4499/capturepk3.png

This randomly appeared, no joke. Methinks my map is haunted.

maybe, you can put that as some kind of burn mark, to hide it.