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Tin Tin · Guest

Hi,
I don't know nothing about coding, but here are some inspirational delphi projects with sourcecode - including a lightmapper and 3ds stuff:

http://www.sulaco.co.za/nitrogen/Projects.html

It would be great with at good lightmapper in DeleD.

Very Happy

TinTin

TinTin · Guest

"Heres an example of how radiosity can be baked into a texture
The mesh on the right is low poly and is only using an image for all its colouring, this is ideal for game engines and other real time uses. "

http://www.blender.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=4599

Paul-Jan · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:22 pm Post subject:

The Saluco projects are great. The blender link is a nice experiment, but pre-baking lighting in the main texture is not at all a smart thing to do at all in any real-life game or other real-time application.

Let's say an average scene consists of 15.000 polygons, and every polygon has a 256x256 texture on it (for convenience, assume every polygon has the same texture). Now bake in lighting (radiosity or any other lighting solution): this requires a unique texture for every polygon, requiring a total of 15.000 * 256 * 256 * 3 bytes ( = about 4gb) of texture memory. Not a good idea.

That is why either a lower-resolution lightmap is calculated and multimapped over the original texture, or a real-time lighting solution is used.

TinTin · Guest

Will/does DeleD and the .x import/export support multimaps?

Jeroen · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject:

What do you mean by multimaps in .x files?

Tintin · Guest

I'm sorry that is not the right word. I think that some proggys also are able to read two sets of uv coords - one for texture and one for ex. lightmaptexture + additional path for the second texture i the .x format. But I don't know too much about it.
Smile

TinTin

Mr.Fletcher · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:27 am Post subject:

I think you mean multitexturing. But i'm quite sure that DeleD doesn't support it.
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Jeroen · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:11 am Post subject:

If you mean multitexturing, then indeed, DeleD doesn't support that yet. But with lighting this will change so stay tuned.

TinTin · Guest

You properly already knows this link - but better safe that sorry: Smile

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