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Hot Topics Hanging on L4Y Closing Down anyone here Crackdown 3's geomod Roll-Call. Who's still... R.I.P Sir Lots-A-Pot Server maps? Red Faction for Mac Who's still here? Run Event December 27th!   Online Goodness There are 0 users and 2 guests online     Red Faction : [RED] Tutorials : Calculate Lightmaps [Forum Rules]   Back to Forum Thread List RED-FROG   Posted 14th Apr 2009 12:38pm L4Y Resident Post 4348 / 5258 Before you save the map you must calculate the lighting. (lightmaps) Otherwise the map will "turn dark" when you geomod. This is done with the key combination: Press: L Press: W Press: Shift+W Press: Shift+L Do this everytime before you test the map. And of course do not forget to do this before you release it! If the map is too dark after doing this, add Lights or raise the ambient brightness in "Edit" ->"Level Properties" -- What the keys do: L : ambient lights, W : hide objects, Shift+W : Unhide objects, Shift+L : calculate lightmaps A lightmap is an automatically generated texture which acts like a layer on diffuse textures. It changes the illumination on the diffuse textures. (for shadows and bright light sources) ¤ MARS WARS 3! - Red Faction revamped on the unreal engine. Superiority ¤     KERPAL   Posted 16th Apr 2009 3:57am L4Y Member Post 1246 / 1353 Kewl. Although I find it easier to do it this way: W + Shift W, L + Shift L Maps     RED-FROG   Posted 16th Apr 2009 11:27am L4Y Resident Post 4351 / 5258 Why release shift when you can hold it. Makes no sense. Also it is totally unimportant which of those two is used. And when I think about it, what were the devs doing at all? They could have easily hacked the lightmaps progress so it hides and unhides objects itself. Nasty hack, but it would have made things a lot easier. ¤ MARS WARS 3! - Red Faction revamped on the unreal engine. Superiority ¤     Molodiets   Posted 16th Apr 2009 12:54pm L4Y Member Post 2383 / 2687 Quoting REDFROG And when I think about it, what were the devs doing at all? They could have easily hacked the lightmaps progress so it hides and unhides objects itself. Nasty hack, but it would have made things a lot easier. aint it possible for your to release another optimized version of RED that handles the problem? spoilsport     RED-FROG   Posted 16th Apr 2009 2:16pm L4Y Resident Post 4352 / 5258 I don't have any software for it. Probably TrotSkie would know how to do it, it should be a simple function. However I don't really think even that effort would be worth it afterall. Perhaps it would have already been done if only someone mentioned it to the mighty coders. ¤ MARS WARS 3! - Red Faction revamped on the unreal engine. Superiority ¤    Modified Apr 16th, 02:17pm by RED-FROG NoClanFrank    Posted 24th Apr 2009 3:56am Post 5097 / 5840 I made this thread sticky too. I know most of us know this already but it's useful for the new mappers out there. >Click Here< If You Don't Have a Social Life :/     KERPAL   Posted 28th Apr 2009 3:10am L4Y Member Post 1249 / 1353 Quoting REDFROG Why release shift when you can hold it. Makes no sense. Also it is totally unimportant which of those two is used. And when I think about it, what were the devs doing at all? They could have easily hacked the lightmaps progress so it hides and unhides objects itself. Nasty hack, but it would have made things a lot easier. ok dood Maps

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