Help with lighting map for environment!

butt_sahib

Hello everyone!

Heres what i posted in my thread but figured i should post here as more people might check in (i really need to see how to do this so i can start texturing )
Ok so here is what i did, i set up the lights like in the second picture so that i could render out a light map to overlay ontop of my diffuse. The second picture shows how the render looks with my current light set-up. Now, when i render out the light/shadow map, i get the map on its right. Now there is no overlappig of uvs as all the mirrored shit was offset'd. What gives? isnt there a way i could render out a lightmap like the redner i have?
I then tried a skylight and rendered out a map using a light tracer. Did a normal render as shown in the top. And the map on the right shows it as map. I dont see any light from the spot ligths and stuff.

What gives? why cant i render out a lightmap properly with the standard lights? i also have two photometric lights and i tried everything (radiosity,mental shaders,etc)

Any and all help is appreciated guys!
Thanks in advance

gamedev

What you've got now w/ the light and shadow map is pretty much an AO map, or so it looks. Try baking out w/ a 'Complete Map' w/ your current light setup. You should exactly what you see in your scene but on your texture map.

Good luck.

-Tyler

butt_sahib

Thank you very much for dropping in and helping! Much appreciated
I rendered out a complete map but i have no idea why, it churned up this map.
A few moments ago, eric told me to check into vertex colours (something that i wasnt remotely aware of).Which pretty much got the job done too! thanks eric and bobo
had to paint some shadows in,get texporter and now will fix it up in photoshop


I feel like an ass now after seeing how simple the problem was

Thanks again guys, and admin, you can delete the thread if you please

Jeremy Lindstrom

nah, I'd ask to leave it in case it can help someone else.