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1. Re: Mysterious Lighting Seams in UDK

   

   Reply by dirigible · Jan 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   I tried Marine's and nfr..nfrr...that guy's suggestions. They both show a lighting seam, even with only a neutral material (no normal map) applied. To be explicit, the silo on the left has the uv seams rotated 90 degrees, so that the seams are vertical, not horizontal. The silo on the right has the lightmap uv's at the…

2. Re: Mysterious Lighting Seams in UDK

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · Jan 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Yea they edited the entry, it actually makes much more sense overall but the bit at the bottom that pretty much said "yea light maps and specular are a bitch, watch out and hide your seams as best you can" is gone, ha! Figures... I think I had it wrong, it uses the lightmap UV set to generate specular, so you want the…

3. Mysterious Lighting Seams in UDK

   

   Topic by dirigible · Jan 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hey, all. I recently finished an environmental asset - a silo structure. It's little more than a cylinder. The uv's for the textures are mirrored left/right. The uv's for the lightmap, obviously, are not. When I put it into unreal it looked fine. Until I baked lighting, when I got a gigantic lighting seam right down the…