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Re: Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
At work we use a similar solution, and it works really well. You seem to have a concern with baked vertex lighting interfering or fighting against a dynamic lighting solution? I'm not certain how your system is setup, but ours works great together, and i'll tell you a little about why. First off, Dynamic Lighting & Dynamic… -
Re: Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
Depends on the engine. Vertex color is very cheap rendering-wise, so it's an easy feature to implement. It's a little tougher on the artist, you have to subdivide your meshes so there are enough vertices in the right places, but it really isn't too hard. Max lets you easily bake lighting into vertex color (check out the… -
Re: Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
I don't know why you are getting big dark spots but I can tell you that a combination of AO and normal map will add that extra depth to any model. Second to that the lights in the map will help by hiding detail at certain angles of your assets ensuring uniformity is not so apparent. Def the right way to go about creating a… -
Re: Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
I think your concern is a little strange personally, but it's hard to tell without knowing what your engine is capable of, and how sophisticated the lighting model is. Personally I think dynamic shadowing and vertex based AO can work really well together, even If those verts aren't handled in a vert illumination channel at… -
Re: Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
WellI know the benefits of AO baking, I'm not disputing that, its just I calculate the AO... looks alright, bake it into the vertex, turns to shit. I guess it's a matter of adding more verts, and such, but still having troubles, I model things with seperate elements layered on top of each other rather then one continous… -
Re: Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
Resistance Fall of Man had a cool implementation of vertex color. http://www.cybergooch.com/tutorials/pages/lighting_rfom4.htm They baked lighting into bitmaps that were actually normalmaps themselves, so the tiled enviro normalmaps would get directional lighting from the lightmaps. Pretty cool. The vertex color came into… -
Re: Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
Ok. from the responses I think our system is so far off base I'm not making myself clear, lol. Resistence baked their lighting solution into a map, this isn't really what I'm talking about as it's dealing with how they handled lights. We're using dynamic lighting solution, meaning very little is going to be baked in, which… -
Re: Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
Sorry for the semi-off-topic remark. Regarding baking vertex lighting, if you're having issues wit it, you can also light-map meshes with a second UV channel, which is very common with Unreal Engine 3 games. http://book.hourences.com/tutorialsue3lightmap.htm There's pros and cons to both. But as for vertex lighting, here's… -
Re: Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
Yeah, by my opionion is it isn't lighting I'm backing it's just the AO and post effects kind of cover that already without the hassle of baking vertex colour. The baking we are doing doesn't solve the problem of light maps, because we're not baking our lighting solution (IE shadows) I guess it's a really particular use for… -
Vertex Lighting Bake - Thoughts?
Alright, I'm coming off using Unreal 3 for a while now where it didn't have any vertex lighting, so I never really had to deal with it before; just had to worry about the crappy way U3 imports the normals(or mayas way, can't remember which) Anyway, new game, new engine, new software(max) and they want to stick a AO bake on…
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