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

[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.

[p0lar_bear]

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.

I don't think gmax has mental ray.

[Botolf]

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.

[demonmaster3k]

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

[Syuusuke]

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...

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

[jahrain]

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).

oh, btw, heres my lightmaps i generated for Bloodgulch.



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.

And this is ingame:

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



And heres a comparison shot of what I did with Mental Ray

notice the shadows almost match the detail of the vehicles on the scene


heres some more:

Oh and this is what the lightmaps bitmap that I had to compile looks like:

Beware, this is extremely huge; click it after you open it to blow it up to full size (about 2100 x 9500 pixels).

[paintballakid5]

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

[kenney001]

nvm

[SuperSunny]

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

[LlamaMaster]

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

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