Mythril needs help with the lightmaps for Savior.

[mythril] 7:48 PM
do want
I have an error
[gamma927] 7:48 PM
que????
[mythril] 7:48 PM
):
savior
[gamma927] 7:48 PM
oh
[mythril] 7:48 PM
once again, it's the lightmaps
the problem is
THERE IS NO ERROR
if I run lightmaps through tool
[gamma927] 7:49 PM
bueno
[mythril] 7:49 PM
all I get is the
[gamma927] 7:49 PM
wait
[mythril] 7:49 PM
some areas don't have background sound
Done
[gamma927] 7:49 PM
wtf are you doing running lightmaps at school
[mythril] 7:49 PM
not now rofl
earlier
didn't mention it earlier though
[gamma927] 7:49 PM
I KNOW
>>
and now i'm busy as [crap] rofl
[mythril] 7:49 PM
and if I run it in sapien
then I can't save it
nothing happens
nothing is lit up
:sadface:
I can't implement my new bsp
with this [error] in my face

He wishes to have his map out before Christmas / the new year, and would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help him with this.

Run lightmaps in tool not sapien...

Running lightmaps in tool tells him that some clusters are missing sound, and then outputs DONE.

And he's positive that he's entering the directory correctly?

Solve the actual issue instead of trying to find ways around it. Add in the missing sounds and maybe it'll work?

While I agree with you, I Don't get how that could affect the running of the lightmaps. I have never had that issue when running lightmaps in tool. That is the one thing that has always worked for me except if I had bad UVs. That's the only error I have ever gotten. Does it maybe have to do with an issue with the portaling?

Every time I run lightmaps in tool, I always get the clusters missing sound. It doesn't affect the lightmaps as I have successfully built them before even with this warning.
I previously had a bad UVs error, but after I rebuilt an edge of the sky, it appeared to be fixed.
Oh right, there was also another message in the debug which I have been receiving for a while, seen below.

11.28.10 19:39:00  tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
11.28.10 19:39:00  reference function: _write_to_error_file
11.28.10 19:39:00  reference address: 42ca20
11.28.10 19:39:00  Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
11.28.10 19:39:01  the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg shield does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
11.28.10 19:39:02  WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\test\savior\savior have no background sound or sound environment.

Also, I'm pretty much forced to do the final lightmaps in Sapien due to the fact that I have never been able to get lights working properly when I compile in tool.

I dont see any errors affecting the lightmaps here.

11.28.10 19:39:02 WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\test\savior\savior have no background sound or sound environment.

Is something in the .scenario Tag of your map and i know (from experience) has nothing to do with lightmaps.

EDIT:

(pointless above, i just read your post more thoroughly.)

I have no idea what may be wrong, i'd ask mooseguy for some help since he has modeled quite a few and impressing bsps and do custom light maps on them.
Edited by Shade117 pro on Nov 30, 2010 at 02:15 AM

11.28.10 19:39:02 WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\test\savior\savior have no background sound or sound environment.

This does not affect lightmapping process. I have always gotten this warning when compiling lightmaps in tool. It's only being like a cranky grandma complaining that she didn't get prunes with her oatmeal.

The fact that the map is not going through errors means one of two things:

1. The scenario is not properly hooked to a skybox or there are no skybox polys in the map. I doubt this is the problem.
2. The path was typed in incorrectly. tool lightmaps levels\pitfall\pitfall pitfall 0 0.9 right?

If these are not the problem, I don't know what's up.

EDIT:
The problem may also somehow be caused by some bad UV's, and somehow tool didn't feel like outputting the error.
But then again, if it says DONE, then the issue is still most likely the skybox not being linked correctly to the scenario....

MoooseGuy is puzzled.
Edited by MoooseGuy on Nov 30, 2010 at 05:26 AM

It says done no matter what, I think. Are you sure you're waiting long enough? I have to wait a long time sometimes just for the numbers to start showing up. Make sure you type it like mooseguy said.

But then the tool lightmaps would work ._.

So when you run it in tool, the result creates .bitmaps?
enough of them?
does the filesize look ok?

[mythril] 7:38 PM
oh
I ran it again yesterday
tool ran
sapien still doesn't as far as I know
like the numbers count down
[gamma927] 7:39 PM
but does tool work?
[mythril] 7:39 PM
ye
but the lightmaps
aren't
good enough
for me
the planes don't generate light

[gamma927] 7:40 PM
sapien does those
you have them set as light things
device lights
right?
o.o
or
they have
properties inside
that give off light
[mythril] 7:40 PM
o___o
it's a shader
which gives off light
[gamma927] 7:41 PM
THAT THING
[mythril] 7:41 PM
YES THAT THING

[gamma927] 7:44 PM
._.
but sapien doesn't work
[mythril] 7:44 PM
it just lights up the map from the light of the sky
doesn't calculate the shaders which give off light
si
sapien doesn't work
[gamma927] 7:45 PM
quality 1?
[mythril] 7:45 PM
Iforgot the exact error
but
I ran it for like, 5 hours
come back
radiosity_save
and it came up with something like radiosity couldn't be saved

If you want I could try running lightmaps again.

I have always run lightmaps in tool. Lighted shaders WILL give off light in the lightmaps, you just forgot to set them up correctly in Guerrilla. Plus, you can add extra detail light with device lights, make sure they have color and power attributes.

I'm using default Halo shaders from a30, b30 and b40.

@elefant I'll try once more when I have the time, if it still fails, then I'll send to you :3

ninjae:
okay, issue resolved somehow, reran in sapien for 20 minutes or so, then saved. It's working again, must've been a one-off issue :S

now, about the fact that I accidentally moved the bsp a little from where it was...
FFFUUUU repopulate or try to move the bsp back?
Edited by Mythril on Dec 2, 2010 at 04:18 AM