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FPSC Classic Product Chat / square lighting, is it normal?

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rakker126
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Hi evereybody

I have square lighting, it only works on one single segment and doenst flow over to the next and it is... ugly

I use the highest settings

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screenie 2

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Simple; your lightmapquality is too low...


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How can you change that?
And to what should i change it for a pretty big level?

Thanks!

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In setup.ini change:

Lightmapquality to 40
Lightmapsize to 1024

Play with setings: nothing will change in the fps , only the building time will increase


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Quote: "Lightmapquality to 40 "

i heard it should be at least 50 for good shadow effects. mines at
Lightmapquality to 150
Lightmapsize to 2048(a little big i know.)

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I have my quality at 20 and the shadows look brilliant even with quick lightmapping .

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I've edited to:

[GAMEMAKE]
lightmapping=1
lightmapold=0
lightmapshadows=1
lightmapambientr=0
lightmapambientg=0
lightmapambientb=0
lightmapsunx=0
lightmapsuny=-1
lightmapsunz=0
lightmapsunr=0
lightmapsung=0
lightmapsunb=0
lightmapzerorange=100
lightmapatten=16
lightmapmaxsize=-1
lightmapboost=4
lightmaptexsize=1024
lightmapquality=40
lightmapblurmode=1
lightmapthreadmax=-1
bloodonfloor=0
imageblockmode=1

But it still looks the same, is that usual?

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I have:



lightmapshadows=0






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I changed it but i cant see any difference.


I use Vista sp1 and version 1.14

When is edit it and i start fpsc it changes back, when i edit it when fpsc creator is on it doesnt work.

Does anywone know how to solve this?

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Quote: "I changed it but i cant see any difference."


o

Quote: "when i edit it when fpsc creator is on it doesnt work."


obviously

Quote: "When is edit it and i start fpsc it changes back"


weard

Quote: "Does anywone know how to solve this?"


maybe

Quote: "I use Vista sp1 and version 1.14"


there are some known bugs, when using FPSC (NOT X10), on Vista, maybe this is one of them...

but do your segment has a shader aplied: then make sure your shader effecks are set to full


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Screenie one with your settings

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Abother

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I have Ati 4870
Quad 2,83 Ghz
4 gb ddr-2 800 Mhz
Vista Ultimate 32 bit
P45

New drivers

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lightmaptexsize decreases performance for larger level. just an FYI.

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what verson are you running (if that hasnt been asked already)
and are full shader effects on?

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MAKE SURE that FPSC is closed when you're making the changes, as well as change the settings in both spots (setup.ini and buildsetup.ini).

Also, Dar13 is correct - larger texture sizes decrease performance, while a better quality only increases loading times. For example, textures at 512 and quality of 50 will use the same loading time and look the same as textures at 256 and quality of 100...but the lower texture size will increase performance.

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FPSC has a nasty habit of keeping the editor process running(at least on my comp) so it'd be good habit to make sure that all the processes are shut down.

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You may also want to try changing the "lightmapblur" to 2 or 3 for even smoother looking shadows.


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Just changing the settings then running a test game won't change anything as FPSC is not recalculating the lightmapping as nothing has been physically changed from the last time you previewed it. You need to make at least one change in the map, even if it's nudging an entity 1 pixel, in order for FPSC to noticed something's changed and recalculate the lightmapping.



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make sure setup.ini is changed ALONG with buildsetup.ini.

I don't know if that's already been said...


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Make sure that UAC is turned off, it won't let you save any changes to files in program files.

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Thanks its working now

Is it possible to change the high of a light?

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Quote: "Is it possible to change the high of a light?"


you mean range? yes that can be done in the preferences panel

if you mean high in high lol xd then just press page up or down, when entity is folowing your mouse


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Yeah thats what i meant, hih in high thanks

In my new game i'm using nice lights

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Quote: "In my new game i'm using nice lights "


looking forward to see it


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You already can in the showcase its a W.I.P.

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Rakker126, you have good hardware. Why don't you just run FPSCX10? It is way better.

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Because i think the loading times are to high. To load a fairly samll level you need to wait more then 1 minute. There arent much people who want to do that and the quality is more important then how it looks like.

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Well it will be faster then the original FPSC

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Now, it isnt.

A fpsc level never loads longer then 1 minut
A X10 level always loads +2 minutes + faster lag

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