3DS is taking ages to render these. I'm using a rather complex BSP with ~14k faces, but it's been 10 hours and I'm not halfway there.

When doing renders with Aether on a different BSP, the renders in 3DS took 2-3 minutes. Mind you that was a far simpler structure, however the entire BSP was lit with scenery items which meant that there were ~50 light sources in 3DS max.

This just has one light source placed overtop the map.


Has anoyone had experience baking lightmaps? Does OS's script seem to take longer than a standard bake would, or am I just seeing the effects of a far more complex geometry?

As far as I remember, baking lightmaps for cmt's tsce took months. I haven't tried baking them myself but it seems that they do take a lot longer than regular lightmaps.

Christ okay so I guess 24 hrs isn't so bad after all

Run 3dsmax in the commandline render mode, it was 10 - 15% in my personal experience.

Depends on your pc's specs honestly.

I ran the DLM's for Sector 09 overnight. If I remember correctly, they were complete by the time I woke up about 8 - 9 hours later.

Our lightmaps for TSC:E also had upwards of 12k lights in some areas, so 3ds max would have to reread all the lights every time it loaded a new lightmap before the actual render process started. That my itself slowed us down considerably.