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Henry00
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 Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 1:29 pm Post subject: Lightmap renders miniature blurs instead of sharp shadows |
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It's me again 
So after hours to realize the DeleD lightmap author figured it would be funny to suddenly reverse the uv mapping to DirectX standards to confuse people that wish to import them, I came to a problem which might just be a setting I am missing.
I was hoping to have some brilliant sharp shadows on the floor but the only thing I end up with is a cute little blur that even gets cut in half by the floor in some places:
This could be looking much better, but I can't seem to fix it. The following scene should have the shadow of this wooden motorcycle projected onto the wall, instead it's just a little blur that's barely visible..
It would be great to get some advice on how to fix this, I was actually getting really excited..
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| Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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A small follow-up, by moving a light very close to the object and setting its intensity to 200 actually allowed a shadow on the wall, but it's still blurry and looks like seaweed 
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps if you go to Options, Lightmapper and reduce the filter passes (blur) to 0, that might sharpen the shadows, also increase the range of the spot light, and use the cone angles to create a tighter light.
The shadows on the floor that are cut in half, maybe due to too large polygon sizes, try increasing the count on the floor below the motorcycle.
Check the shadow texture size is large enough for the quality you are looking for, and use a format other than jpg.
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Henry00
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| AWM Mars wrote: |
| Perhaps if you go to Options, Lightmapper and reduce the filter passes (blur) to 0, that might sharpen the shadows, also increase the range of the spot light, and use the cone angles to create a tighter light. |
I set the filter passes (blur) to 0, increased the range of the light to 2000, intensity to 400, I did not change the cone angles and came up with this result, it's actually a big improvements but very pixelated, this would be because of my maximum lightmap resolution then?
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| The shadows on the floor that are cut in half, maybe due to too large polygon sizes, try increasing the count on the floor below the motorcycle. |
I did read about that, in a way that's a good thing for performance (although my engine is now capable of 2000fps in free-run, who cares about those). I would have to replace the floor by a grid, I will try building everything using grids as that might really fix allot of those issues.
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| Check the shadow texture size is large enough for the quality you are looking for, and use a format other than jpg. |
By using gluBuild2DMipmaps (although you would expect leaking) everything looks very blurry and nice, the result went from pixelated to smooth lighting. I am currently using bmp (I will have to convert that to png though as the files are way too large, and png is lossless).
UPDATE:
By setting the minimal lightmap size to:
16x16 and the maximum to: 256x256 things started getting much better!
I will try solving this and give some more results, compilation time is horrible though now that it uses multiple files..
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Henry00
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 9:58 am Post subject: |
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I believe I finally got to the result I wanted thanks to the tips, so many thanks for that  !
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Lightmap Size : 2048x2048
Individual Textures Minimum Size: 8x8
Individual Textures Maximum Size: 512x512
Number of (Blur) Filter Passes : 5
Generate Shadows : Yes
Normal Auto Smooth Crease Angle : 0
Scene Properties:
Ambient Color : (0,0,0)
Shadow Opacity : 100
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You may want to play around with the Number of (Blur) Filter Passes! When I set it to be 3 the shadows are sharper and I believe this has the best effect for my game.
This topic should contain all the information you need if you have troubles like this, have fun!
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Good to see you found the solution! Excellent results, too!
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Thanks! And I must say that DeleD keeps amazing me in features
Although I think I have to go to the feature request section again as my 2048x2048 BMP lightmap file is 12.0 MB. PNG is lossless and even mspaint.exe saves it to a simple 585 KB.
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