RE: [Algorithms] LightMaps

[Jaimi M. <ja...@al...>]

Just write your own lighting, either radiosity or direct
lighting (both usually look fine with tweaking). Usually
it's best to make your lightmaps really small - the bilinear
filtering will smooth it out quite nicely - so you can pack
many of them into a lower number of texture pages. Try to
group them together in the order you'll end up rendering
them, so you have a minimum of texture changes.

We've talked about this at least 8000 times on this list,
you may want to check the archives if you need more info.

Jaimi
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Hi,

I want to introduce static light maps, is there any utility out there which
will precompute the lightmap textures out there if I give it a bunch of
lights and triangles to play with?

Also, is it necessary for every tri to have it's own lightmap texture or is
it better to just stick to a few basic lightmaps and put them all into one
texture?

Regards,

John.


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