Light map/Matinee problem

JonathanLambert

Hi,
I set up a camera fly through with Kismet and Matinee. Everything looks great in the editor but when I dump the frames via the "Create a movie" button in matinee , the scene is rendered without the lightmaps. I am getting the lighting needs to be rebuilt message, would this cause UDK to ignore all of my lightmaps?
Any ideas?

Thanks

sprunghunt

have you rebuilt lighting for all of your maps?

it may look fine in the editor but be broken in game

JonathanLambert

No, not yet. I have an old core 2 duo 1.6ghz so it takes forever. I'll build them overnight and try it again. Strange thing is, I can play in the editor and the matinee will play through and look just fine. I can take tiled shots with no problem, it's only when I render out the sequential frames that my light maps disappear.

JonathanLambert

Rebuilding the light maps fixed the problem. Apparently, UDK was ignoring all of them while rendering the video until all of the lightmaps were current.

Thanks

Visceral

Isnt it like that all the time? I mean after you bake lights and then make adjustments to the map then all the baked lighting breaks and it switches over to the dynamic preview thing.

sprunghunt

Visceral wrote: »

Isnt it like that all the time? I mean after you bake lights and then make adjustments to the map then all the baked lighting breaks and it switches over to the dynamic preview thing.

if you only ever use play in editor you'll get whatever is visible in the viewport and it hides a lot of problems that'll happen when you play the game the regular way