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Sindwiller
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Actually, you can just pick some lights and render the lightmaps only of that selection.
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Daaark
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| Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Jeroen wrote: |
| Btw, a normal pipeline would involve creating your geometry first, then UV map, then lighmap. |
*BS Alarm goes off* 
But this is improving.
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Jeroen
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Hehe, I know you disagree VD.  |
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kaylon
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| Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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Think you need to look at your pipeline Jeroen  ... as you never...ever leave lighting till last...it's most important that the lighting evolves as you make and design your levels and worlds
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh sure, I believe that immediately. I just meant that you never, ever change your geometry and then leave your lightmaps as they were. That's why, in the end, you will have done your geometry first, then UV mapped, then lightmapped. |
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Daaark
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| Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Jeroen wrote: |
| Oh sure, I believe that immediately. I just meant that you never, ever change your geometry and then leave your lightmaps as they were. That's why, in the end, you will have done your geometry first, then UV mapped, then lightmapped. |
Only the final lightmap is created last.
Also, there is a use for lightmapping something and then keeping it after an edit. You can lightmap one object, and then copy and paste it around, and use the same lightmap on all of them, saving space.
If every window on a 20 storey building gets the same lightjob, there is no reaosn not to copy and paste 1 that is lit instead of using up a whole new lightmap image for these windows.
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Vampyre_Dark wrote: |
Only the final lightmap is created last.
Also, there is a use for lightmapping something and then keeping it after an edit. You can lightmap one object, and then copy and paste it around, and use the same lightmap on all of them, saving space.
If every window on a 20 storey building gets the same lightjob, there is no reaosn not to copy and paste 1 that is lit instead of using up a whole new lightmap image for these windows. |
Agreed, and a nice optimization it is. I just don't think many people will do that in the end. |
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nextdoorscat
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I've done it.... 
Sometimes I've found it kinda necessary! |
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