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kai5888
Joined: Jun 29, 2008

Start the revolution


Posted: Aug 24, 2008 03:02 PM    Msg. 1 of 5       
i can't figure out what the best lighting command for the lighmaps is... mainly because i always use

"tool lightmaps levels\mapname\mapname mapname 0 0.9"
but sometimes i get sqaury shadows in the map from the scenery and i like good lighting...

help?


Advancebo
Joined: Jan 14, 2008


Posted: Aug 24, 2008 03:04 PM    Msg. 2 of 5       
tool lightmaps levels\mapname\mapname mapname 1 1


kai5888
Joined: Jun 29, 2008

Start the revolution


Posted: Aug 24, 2008 03:05 PM    Msg. 3 of 5       
man you are fast at responding... i just went to get something to drink....

anyways thanks...


Vick Jr
Joined: Jun 26, 2008

Well enough alone...


Posted: Aug 24, 2008 05:33 PM    Msg. 4 of 5       
Sometimes these forums are really fast, responsefull, and helpfull. Most of the time...not so much.

I vaigly remember trying tool radiosity ... 1 1 and it said 1 wasn't a valid stop threshold or something. but whatever. I'll try it again. TY!


Me KS
Joined: Feb 2, 2008

Desire is Reality. Xfire: jetmaster23


Posted: Aug 24, 2008 08:14 PM    Msg. 5 of 5       
Quote: --- Original message by: Advancebo
tool lightmaps levels\mapname\mapname mapname 1 1


Setting the "stop threshold" to "1" basically means no light maps. If you meant to show the highest setting, you could get as close to "0" as you want for the stop threshold, but you can't actually set it to "0". When you try to, it says that it's an invalid value, and that "0.001" is an okay value. For that reason, I set it to 0.001, so:

tool lightmaps levels\mapname\scenario-name bsp-name 1 0.001

Heads up though: depending on the size of your map and the speed of your computer, a full-quality light map could take many hours to finish.

 

 
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