Help working with low rez light maps

ZacD

Right now I'm getting very lame shadows around corners and edgers, not all of them are like this, but is there anyway to get around this?

Right now I'm using mental ray for generating lightmaps, is there better (free) programs for creating light maps?

And sometimes my autogenerated UV's are kinda crappy, any advice for that?

r_fletch_r

It looks like your ground plane is continuing beneath your wall and the light is bleeding from the back of the wall to the front. if thats the case you need to ensure they are shadowed evenly on both sides.

If you want a free alternative you might look at Giles

Ark

Try increasing the image resolution of the lightmap.

ZacD

The target specs is for the iphone.

CrazyButcher

ZacD wrote: »

The target specs is for the iphone.

but not for the baking process. Always bake at higher fidelity, that way you can downsample, but if you effectively have less information at hand.

along the lines of what r_fletch_r said, you could increase wall thickness.