So When i run lightmaps on a map, it renders them for the structure. But objects like trees\rocks\crates\bipeds don't render shadows. In game, i have shadows enabled, vehicles have them, but biped don't. Is there something wrong with the shader_environment? Is it something with the biped and scenery models, or collision models, or the fact that they're animated scenery? I just don't understand why it's doing this. Any help is welcomed. Thanks, guys.

Scenery objects don't cast shadows. They would if you made high quality lightmaps. Idk why biped doesn't cast shadow. Are you using original spartan?

If you want some good object shadows, try lighting your map with Aether.

If you want your sceneries to cast (ugly) shadows, you will have to recompute the lightmaps after having them placed.
For the biped not having shadows, it's an error from bounding radius or offset or w/e at the top of the tags

It's MP, 1 BSP. I ran lightmaps after placing all scenery. I know the biped won't have shadows in FP, that's why i was looking at another biped i placed. Shadows are enabled in video settings of halo.

1: The command i used was "tool lightmaps levels\isolated\isolated isolated 0 0.001" and the map is multiplayer.
2: i'll try to upload them within the hour.
3: All scenery is doing this. No shadows for any of it, animated or not. I'm sorry if my list was confusing.
4: Not to my knowledge, it has done this since i compiled lightmaps.
5: "Warning 8 clusters in structure_bsp "levels\isolated\isolated" have no backround sound of sound environment." that's it besides "couldn't read map file blah blah blah."

@altis: different biped, same collision. And that's what causes shadows.

@bourrin: i'll go try tinkering with it to see what i can find out. Thank you.
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 29, 2013 at 01:33 PM
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 29, 2013 at 01:40 PM

1: The command i used was "tool lightmaps levels\isolated\isolated isolated 0 0.001" and the map is multiplayer.

The number "0" means you are running low-quality lightmaps. Use "1" to do high quality ones. So:

"tool lightmaps levels\isolated\isolated isolated 1 0.001"

I'm not sure if that'll do scenery though, i think you might need a 3rd party lightmap renderer to do that.
Edited by Koo294 on Jan 29, 2013 at 01:41 PM

That's not quite right. The lower value is better, as it begins at 1 and counts down to 0, and so 0.001 is quite a high value (for some reason you can't actually choose 0 in tool, only sapien).
E: misread.

Edited by Koo294 on Jan 29, 2013 at 05:22 PM

best quality is 0.00001 for tool and 1 (radiosity_quality 1) in sapien...
I think the 0.xx defines somehow the accuracy of the lightmaps computed

Ah yes, I thought you were saying he should use a higher value.

No has :/ I'm rerunning lightmaps with the values given, i'll come back with updates on how it worked.
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 29, 2013 at 08:37 PM

Edit: so i started the process around 8:30 last night, let it run all night, and checked it this morning...Still now done, and tool ran out of memory so it started deleting the text at the top 0_0 The map really isn't all that big. About the size of bloodgulch, maybe smaller.
Edited by grunt_eater on Jan 30, 2013 at 10:57 AM

'merge-scenery' to bsp, then re-run lightmaps.

... Still processing lightmaps -_-... IT'S NOT THAT PIG OF A MAP! Lol.

What do you mean?

Hmmm. Map has a few rocks and trees. My processor isn't the greatest. And looking back on it, the map does have a decent poly count. It's like lightmaps is counting down. It started in the 10 thousands, now i'm down to 1 thousand something, and it just seems to be going down. Lol. Hopefully when it reaches zero it'll be complete, not say one face is done or something :P

No, no more changes to that. Vehicles, bipeds. they'll be added\changed. But BSP scenery will remain the same.

I'm not saying i don't have lightmaps. I'm saying that when i render lightmaps, it's ignores scenery objects or bipeds(doesn't render shadows for them). They have collision geometry, everything seems fine, just no shadows.

Edit: Countdown has reached 0.000005

Edit2: lightmaps finished.Fixed a lot of the scenery shadows, but still none for bipeds. I tested it with stock bips too and still nothing, looking into the sun tag now, then bsp\shaders.

New development. If i enter a vehicle i have a shadow. If i exit i have one while the animation's playing but when i'm fully unloaded it's gone. lolwut?
Edited by grunt_eater on Feb 1, 2013 at 09:25 PM

Have you checked to see if the flag is on/off for whether those objects cast shadows or not?

The flag is off, i toggled it and saved just to be sure, but still nothing. I had to set the bipeds bounding and render bounding radius to the same as the warthogs >_> But they cast shadows now :P Sigh...