Directional light mapping.


Edited by Maniac1000 on Apr 19, 2015 at 09:31 PM

Wwhich version of Max you running it in? Is it a possible memory overflow? I know older instances of Max have trouble expanding memory past a certain point. I run into that problem all the time in max 7 when importing certain vertice heavy items.

Only saw this now, sorry. I tried mental ray and scanline for DLM rendering, but never gave vray a shot. Mental ray did some weird stuff, light bleeding through walls, shadows casting from nowhere, it was really really odd. As a result I ended up using scanline for all of TSC:E. The max lighting render files are in our source tag release, you can look to see what my settings were if you want.

Yeah, light emitting surfaces would have been awesome, but I could never get it to cooperate, even without the weird rendering errors.







As you can see mental ray did some weird stuff. These were some of the first lighting tests in game once the dlm tech went live.

So instead I used scanline and had to place a few thousand lights by hand (though thankfully the array tool in 3ds max allowed me to do strip lights without having to place each one individually). I did find that having manual control was very very helpful for detailed tweaking. Different lights have different shadow settings, fade distances, etc.

Edit: Also glad you liked the ocean lighting bake, that was a pain to get right but it's so cool. FYI if you ever try that, the diffuse and alpha have to be coordinated in order to have a proper shoreline fade. Spent at least a week on that alone in photoshop. Definitely refer to the source files.
Edited by slashrat on May 19, 2015 at 06:34 PM