BSP lightmap tag extraction get!

I'm basically trying to figure out how to do that exactly in 3ds texture baking :P

But, those lines, I believe, appeared because I downsized with bicubic sharper from 4096 res to 2048 (Halo cannot compile 4096). If I took that away it may appear correctly, like the other ones.

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Originally Posted by SuperSunny

I'm basically trying to figure out how to do that exactly in 3ds texture baking :P

But, those lines, I believe, appeared because I downsized with bicubic sharper from 4096 res to 2048 (Halo cannot compile 4096). If I took that away it may appear correctly, like the other ones.

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Oh, well i'm not too sure then. Once you figure it out though, you should be able to downsize it no problem. To get best quality with little or no jaggies on shadows, you should run lightmaps at a very high res (sharp shadows will not be anti aliased) but when you downsize it, it anti aliases them.

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Originally Posted by Kornman00

:wtc: reading rainbow :-3

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Indeed !!!

wow, this is very interesting...

the outcome looks quite amazing. how would one go about learning/experimenting with this themselves? i'd like to try it out. any help would be much appreciated.


~Scooby

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Originally Posted by jahrain

Oh, well i'm not too sure then. Once you figure it out though, you should be able to downsize it no problem. To get best quality with little or no jaggies on shadows, you should run lightmaps at a very high res (sharp shadows will not be anti aliased) but when you downsize it, it anti aliases them.

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Hm, it's strange how it works in 3ds. For these recent screenies I did downsize them for the anti-alias effect and it worked pretty well on the shadows. It just bled the edges, though. But when I render at native 2048, it doesn't bleed at the edges, yet isn't anti-aliased! Ahh!

Good thing I have Maya :awesome:

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Originally Posted by SuperSunny

Hm, it's strange how it works in 3ds. For these recent screenies I did downsize them for the anti-alias effect and it worked pretty well on the shadows. It just bled the edges, though. But when I render at native 2048, it doesn't bleed at the edges, yet isn't anti-aliased! Ahh!

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Still haven't found out that extend edge pixel option yet? Darn, well looks like your caught up in an epic struggle between jaggies and bleeders.

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Originally Posted by Scooby Doo

wow, this is very interesting...

the outcome looks quite amazing. how would one go about learning/experimenting with this themselves? i'd like to try it out. any help would be much appreciated.


~Scooby

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First thing to go do is read up some tutorials on how to do texture baking. Once you get that down, your pretty much set. Contact me on AIM and I will send you the current builds of the lightmap extraction tools. They are very buggy, and the process is complicated, but for now, gets enough a job done to test out how it will look ingame.

Are you using the automatic unwrap to render to texture? Because doing it manually should help make the lightmaps neater, use up more bitmap space, etc.

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Originally Posted by Ã�4ÑØ â€*

Good thing I have Maya :awesome:

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As do I, gosh mister.

Any way I can get a hold of this app? Also, does this even support custom UVs for the lightmap? If it doesn't how do you extract the ones that tool generates for my bakes?