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Re: Stunning ArchViz with UE4
Hopefully lightmaps in UE4 will be a thing of the past, because they are truly the most painful aspect of the engine I reckon. I cannot tell how many problems I've seen people have with lightmapping and the process behind it, and I can definitely say I've had a few hair pulling moments myself. I don't think he used Vray to… -
Re: Lightmass Spots
Uploading the lightmap uv sheet and mentioning the lightmap resolution you are using in udk can help better troubleshoot the issue,for instance if the clusters are too close to each other and your LM res is too small those artifacts can and will occur,also i wouldn't put everything in 1 smoothing group,that can also result… -
Re: Unearthly Challenge is creeping up, let's get inspired
Just a word of warning: The only lightmaps you'll see in Source are ones on brushes and displacements. All props are vertex lit and, therefore, prone to being ugly as hell unless you cheat in a hundred different ways. It'd be wiser to use something like Unreal because you can easily have sexy lightmaps on props... along… -
Re: Need some clarification regarding the Houdini Auto-UV workflow that people use for assets
Well, that's a whole other story. I've seen many a good man fall into the arms of an auto-flatten tool when faced with the prospect of the dreaded lightmap UVs..... :) Not necessarily, but again, whatever works. I've seen a few top notch projects that have sworn by UE4s auto-unwrap lightmaps feature, and in one case I've… -
Re: Unity Questions
Yeah, that's pretty much how I did it and it was the simplest option for me outside of taking turns with a scene or manually copying assets. Stuff to keep in mind would be anything that is saved in the scene itself, such as beast or render settings. Additionally, connections to lightmaps are scene dependent, so while you… -
Re: Uniformizing environment textures
If your textures don't look good in fullbright, they won't fit when lit, either. Keep saturation/brightness levels consistent and leave room for lightmaps to multiply against (ie; max value in textures to 215, max saturation to 65%). Often times, lightmaps will be multiplied past a value of 1.0, to blow out lighting and… -
Re: separate geometry or seamless meshes? and building question
RyanB said: The last part is only true in specific situations. If the meshes use the same materials and are static then they can be static batched to reduce draw calls (in Unity anyway) @lockey1995 Some other questions you can ask yourself: - what is the required level of detail? - will you you need to bake lightmaps? if… -
Re: Xoliul's 3DS Max and Maya Viewport Shader
Try again please senor-cojones, just made a little hacky edit that hopefully gets rid of it. I was thinking that removing shadowcode, like in the noshadows version, only reduces the number of if-statements by 1, but it's about 2 or 3. I compared 1.4 and 1.5, and all i could see that might cause problems was the lightmap's… -
Re: Waterfall Environment
@alberto: Thaaaaank youuuuu. :D @Goraaz: Hi! I really didn't want that thread to be a secret advertisement for this thread. Glad you found this one anyways! :D I'll boost the spec on the rocks for sure. I probably dont have enough lightmap resolution on the bridge for it to pick up the shadows from the rocks and the grass… -
Re: Mirroring Normals in UDK
Make sure your seams run vertically like the pages of a book not the pages of a calendar. Any other direction will cause a visible seam. Even then it's not perfect. It also has a bit to do with how you layout your lightmap UVs. Read more about the issue from this thread. EDIT: After using lightmass to bake lighting for a…
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