DeleD Community Edition

Paul-Jan · Last edited by Paul-Jan on Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:19 pm; edited 1 time in total

If you have any questions or remarks regarding the tutorial Lightmapping in DeleD Lite, post them in this thread!

Fixxer · Member Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 4

How com when I export my map, and view in the dx mesh viewer the lighting doesnt show, and my level looks all blocky?

Jeroen · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject:

That's because the X exporter does not export UV coordinates for your lightmap. If you want to work with lightmaps, you could write your own DMF loading routines. As DMF is also textbased, it should be relatively easy to write your own routines. Check the Products area for example code and browse the forums for more info about how to write your own loaders.

I've heard something about X being able to support more sets of UV coordinates per polygon. If that's correct, we'll enhance our X exporter with that functionality sometime in the future. Smile

Fixxer · Member Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 4

ehh...
Does Giles lightmapping work with dx with out me needing to write my own loading code?

Paul-Jan · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't know, as I only have the demo of Gile[s] and that doesn't allow saving, but my guess would be "no". Very Happy

However, perhaps Gile[s] also supports generation of per-vertex lighting (as an alternative to lightmapping), and I am pretty sure the .X file format does support that.

noone · Member Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 1

hi, i dont know if others have this problem (im guessing not everyone because ive heard of the great lightmaps deled produces, and saw in the tutorial that it looks very pretty indeed) however, the lightmaps that are being generated end up giving a very...well, the best way to describe it is to give a screen shot.

thats taken from the 3d view in deled light
any way i can stop this from happening?

Daaark · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: umm?

Paul-Jan · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject:

Or perhaps the light is exactly on the same plane as the geometry (but at some other position). If you figure out which one of the two is causing this, please let us know! Perhaps we can figure out a way to stop it from generating these 'rounding errors'.

rodrix · Member Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

Hi there!

I am intrested in DeleD because of the Lightmapping feature.
I am currently developing a game engine and read that developing algorithms for baking lightmaps is really complicated, so I was expecting to use the Lightmap textures generated by DeleD and the texture coord to then import them to my engine.

However, I can't find where does DeleD exports the Lightmap textures, nor information about which texture coord apply to each polygon. I can't find the documentation anywhere on this site....

Is it possible to do what I mentioned?
Thanks! Smile

Rod

elementrix · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject:

Jeroen · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

Paul-Jan · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject:

As a sidenote, in the DMF file the material layer will always be the 4th layer in the material definition. Any unused-layers in between (usually the 2nd and 3rd) will just be empty.

In the polygon data, only uv coordinates for used material layers are provided.

rodrix · Member Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

Paul-Jan · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject:

A (rather minimal) specification of the .DMF file format is contained in the help file (Info -> Help from the DeleD menu, Developer Resources -> DMF Formats). If you have any questions... ask way! You can also take a look at some example code in the Developer Resources topic.

However, we are about to release DeleD 1.6 (this month), which will offer a new, fully documented, .XML based file format (but will also be backwards compatible with the .DMF file format of course). You might want to wait for that, as the new file format is a lot more... future-proof, so to speak.

Sang33ta · Member Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 7

Why doesn't DeleD Lite generate the light map as a second .x file?

Light Map Maker and Giles do it this way then in Dark Basic I load them both to the same location and ghost the light map over the object.

I think there is a .dbo exporter, but as I'm testing lite it wont work. Does anyone know if it exports the light map to a single Dark Basic Object file as this could be a possible solution. I don't wana pay for DeleD pro and then find it don't work :/