Can you stop Lightmaps from LODing?

Jet_Pilot

So I am working on a gray scene to work on my lighting. I've been primarily working at home, but today I tested it out on my work computer, and now i notice my light maps are LODing and they look like crap. I never noticed this before on my home computer. So i decided to rebake on preview and once i did the LODing went away. The issue is i plan on sending the level and package to some people but id don't want them to have to rebake the lighting cause that might take like an hour or more. Any advice?

tharle

theres another thread talking about this issue here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76476

basically there doesnt seem to be a global setting to stop this happening but you can work around it by using the override lightmap resolution setting in mesh properties on a per mesh basis. that seemed to work when i tried it anyway. it's a bit annoying if it's affecting lots of objects so if you do find a better way let us know!

cheers

tharle

test

rasmus

What I find is that directly after a bake the lightmaps don't MIP, but once the scene is saved they start acting up...

d1ver

My way around this is that you can actually go through all the lightmaps in the map package and set them to no mip-maps by hand. And then save the map. And sometimes things get ok.) I say sometimes because sometimes they still have those awful miping, so I have to restart udk and then things are ok. Until the next bake probably.

unconvenient as hell.=(

rasmus

Yeah, that's not realistic.

Would be interesting to hear from someone from Epic on how/if they deal with this or have plans to see to it in future updates.

Arac

This has been bugging me as well for some time. I'm working on a large outdoor scene and the mipping is very obvious.

I did notice there was a difference between the mipping in the editor viewport and in-game, so there might be a setting in one of the ini config files that could affect this. Haven't found it yet tho.