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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Is there a way to get crisper shadows?

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UberXDominus
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Posted: 20th Mar 2011 23:03
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Hi guys,

I have been fiddling with my setup.ini and I have shadows. But is there a way to make them crisper without a mod? Or will the shadows become crisper in the build game?

Uber
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Stalker93
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2011 16:01
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If you mean more defined shadows, you can set lightmapquality= in your setup.ini to a higher value: this will give you much more detailed shadows, but will also use much more memory during the lightmapping process. I usually use 50 or 70 as value.

Hope this help
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Flatlander
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Do you mean dynamic shadows? If so, I've found they are buggy anyway.

Stalker93 is correct about increasing lightmapquality=. Default is 5 and that is too low for most systems now-a-days. But be careful and don't be discouraged. You may have to adjust downward if your test level crashes.



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UberXDominus
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2011 23:14
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Ok I already have it set at 50, but I will try 70 still.

Thanks!

Uber
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Flatlander
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If that doesn't work you could try baking it longer.

Or, you could try: lightmaptexsize=1024 instead of 512. Not sure if it would work and this again would increase the memory during the lightmapping proecess.



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UberXDominus
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Ok thanks I will try that.

Nice joke, took me a sec to catch it lol

thanks again,

Uber
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Poloflece
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make sure your ambience is down aswell, you can do it with the <> keys


Rust Pack WIP here http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=178788&b=24
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UberXDominus
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Thanks everyone my shadows look a lot better,

cheers,

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