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Re: Water - lighting - transparency

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:53 pm
by mankrip
Bump.

Is there a light tool that can generate lightmap data for water surfaces? I'm looking forward to implementing lit water in the engine, so I need to re-lit the maps for testing.

After getting the rendering part of this working, I should probably implement a simplified in-game light compiler for turbulent surfaces only, to generate their lightmap data if it's missing.

Re: Water - lighting - transparency

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:26 pm
by qbism
If no q1 compiler, qrad3 might be the closest thing. kmquake2 engine added feature to render lightmaps on trans surfaces and it does not require a compiler mod.

Re: Water - lighting - transparency

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:06 am
by Spike
DP supports it, so I assume hmap supports it too. I don't know which commandline args it needs or if it needs any, sorry.

Re: Water - lighting - transparency

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:32 pm
by mankrip
Hmap2 doesn't support it, and neither does Jardrup's light tool. All light utilities skips TEX_SPECIAL surfaces.

I'm going to integrate a simpler version of the vanilla light compiler in the engine, just to get it working. Jardrup's version can replace it later.