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FPSC Classic Product Chat / What is "Lightmapboost" in the setup.ini?

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Wolf
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Posted: 13th Jun 2010 13:33
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Hi!

I would be happy if someone explains the following functions to me. (FPSC Setup/Buildsetup.ini)

lightmapmaxsize=-1
lightmapboost=4
lightmapthreadmax=-1



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Red Eye
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Posted: 13th Jun 2010 18:55
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QV03> Sometimes when I am lightmapping a large level, I get the process freezing during the calculation?
QV03> There may be some systems that conflict with the implementation of multithreading used by the lightmapper. Set the 'lightmapthreadmax=-2' in the SETUP.INI file to deactivate threading.

I found that...

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The Imperfect Sheep
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Posted: 13th Jun 2010 21:25
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Here they are (all credit to Nickydude, found it in an old thread )

lightmapmaxsize=set the curved surface quality setting for the light mapping process (default is -1)

lightmapboost=set the curved surface quality setting for the light mapping process (default is 4)

lightmapthreadmax=set the number of CPU threads to use during the lightmapping process (default is -1 which specifies ALL available threads) (-2=single threaded)
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Nbt
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Posted: 14th Jun 2010 17:28
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I would love to know a good setting for curved surface quality ones, as the lightmapper can really make your models look poop on any curvature. Making once clean smoothing look akin to flat shaded

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Wolf
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Posted: 15th Jun 2010 14:33
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Thanks! Thats at least a hint

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Metal Devil123
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Posted: 16th Jun 2010 19:16
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hmmm... never knew that... Thanks for this Imperfect Sheep and Nickydude! And Wolf ofc.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 12:09
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Quote: "lightmapmaxsize=set the curved surface quality setting for the light mapping process (default is -1)

lightmapboost=set the curved surface quality setting for the light mapping process (default is 4)"


Well I experimented with these two settings and can't really say I noticed any changes?
Admittedly I don't know the accepted value ranges, so just kept going up/down in values.
All in all many highly curved surfaces still look poop after lightmapping

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