shadow problem?

rockbox

Howdy, i just made a stool in 3ds max and it looked fine,fully mapped and correctly rendered:


By rocknrollcowboy at 2011-06-07

but in UDK it has a weird dark color as if a shadow problem or something:


By rocknrollcowboy at 2011-06-07

any ideas on what's causing this?any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

sprunghunt

looks like the screen space ambient occlusion to me. You can turn it off in the post process settings in the world options.

rockbox

thanks i fixed it,it was a smoothing group problem.but i will turn off the occlusion also as that may enhance the scene because my last lighting build took about 10 minutes to finish haha

barri allen

rockbox, remember also to put a lightmass importance bsp.
You guessed correctly about smoothing groups, I went crazy with a similar problem once.

rockbox

barri allen, i do have an importance volume.

also,can you direct me to somewhere i can find a tutorial on making a good mirror?i modeled one in max,mapped it, and now in photoshop the only thing left is the polygon that will be the reflective surface and i dont know what to do to prepare it for udk.

EDIT: lighting takes a little over 26 minutes to build,is this normal for a smaller map with a small number of objects in the scene?

Oniram

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/RenderToTexture.html