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I've discovered some strange lightgrid behavior in which vertex lighting will appear to invert (when a model would normally have the highlight on the top and the shadow on the bottom, it will now have the shadow on the top and highlight on the bottom). I was eventually able to fix this by raising th...

not a player model. It's a single md3 comprised of 2 objects (so I could assign 2 separate materials, 1 for the body and one for the boils with deformvertexes). you want the vertexes of the boils that are connected to the body to not deform? correct. that's probably not possible. I was afraid of tha...

I'm sorry, I meant perimeter of the boils, not parameter :P In other words, I'd like the outer verts of the boils to be attached to the body mesh by their vertices. Another way to think about this is having a single mesh but with specific vertices affected by the shader, in this case, only the verti...

What I have: an MD3 comprised of two meshes (body & boils), one mesh has a deform vertex shader (the boils). video: https://youtu.be/kx1d94uKFLw What I want: i'd like the two meshes to be connected, as in the parameter vertices of the boils are part of the body mesh, but only the boils receive t...

https://youtu.be/PMpXGSwrz_A I'm using scroll and deformvertexes move to simulate snow. The issue is that all brushes move in unison (they reach the end of the move and change direction simultaneously). I was wondering if I could delay deformvertexes move for one set of brushes so that they begin t...

informative tuts, thanks.

ok, thanks. I did a test using detail brushes and caulk with good results. Really just wanted to make sure that using detail brushes is an acceptable way of going about it. I'm leery of using .ase because it may be overkill for my needs and the drawback of not being able to change its geomrety on th...

Does anyone know where I can find examples of maps that are 16384*16384 and up? Also, I'm looking for documentation on how to properly do terrain. Currently, I use just standard structural brushes. Aside from longer compile times, I've run into MAX_MAP_VISIBILITY when compiling. I'm not looking for ...

KittenIgnition, I use gl_nearest, but it seems to have no effect on the lightmap. I've observed this in both Darkplaces and FTE. A shot to demonstrate: http://www.killpixel.com/clean/kp1_filtering.jpg In this shot no filtering switches of any sort are used during the light phase. The _lightmapscale ...

Thanks for the additional info, obsidian. High resolution lightmaps might sound really cool, but in practice it's extremely hard to notice the effect, and you'll run into a bunch of limitations which usually means the lightmap will be downsampled to fit geometry, run out of memory, or other issues. ...

I'm talking about in game. The lightmaps themselves don't have blur and are totally sharp/pixelated/aliased whatever. I'm not quite sure where the blur in game is coming from. Its not possible to render textures perfectly 1:1 That's a bummer :/ I was getting pretty good results using _lightmapscale ...

I'm trying to create aliased lightmaps with a luxel density that matches the texel density. So far I've only been able to visually match densities but cant seem to remove the blur. The texel density is 2 (4?) per game unit (so, a texture scale of 2 in radiant). I'm using external lightmaps. I would ...

ok, thanks for confirming.

I've opted to use indexed images for all basic textures (i.e. not used in a shader), is using qer_editorImage to display non-indexed versions from an alternate directory the correct way to go about this? I've read that there are some instances where a shader will use info from qer_editorImage, this ...

nogridlight doesn't seem to be working. When setting this spawnflag the pointlight doesn't affect the lightgrid nor the lightmap. This is using the q3map2 build bundled with gtkradiant 1.6.4. Can anyone confirm this, or maybe there's an error on my end? I haven't tested this on previous versions, no...

Ah, interesting idea using a decal. I should've mentioned, this is in Darkplaces. At the moment, it only supports single stage shaders... which rules out triggerable shaders :/. I was thinking maybe trying FBSP for the lightmap lightstyles, but it doesn't support that either. The solution I'm going ...

I have a stained glass window properly coloring light that passes through it via lightfilter. However, the window is destructible, so I need away to remove the colored light once the glass has been destroyed. Is there already a way in q3map2 to specify a shader to be only affected by rtlights?

a vp parallel upright autosprite.

would look better and be more efficient and flexible than entities/.spr....

Hmm... did you ever check how many bounces the light stage does? It varies, I just use 100 to make sure I get all of them. In my test map, the increased gamma and bounce scale with the increased AO has a pretty cool effect. The gamma increase is only .1, most of the extra light is provided by the b...

After several experiments and comparisons I'm leaning heavily toward using filter. However, the wiki says not to use it because it "doesn't play nice with a lot of the more interesting effects". I haven't noticed anything particularly weird (bleeding, maybe), what issues does it cause exac...

Kind of a surprising limitation, bummer.

The sky isn't blocking visibility of geometry behind it, is this normal? textures/wtest1/devsky { qer_editorimage textures/wtest1/devsky surfaceparm noimpact surfaceparm nolightmap q3map_sunExt 1 1 1 300 45 60 3 16 q3map_lightmapFilterRadius 0 8 q3map_skylight 100 3 skyparms textures/sky/desertsky -...

I see. I appreciate the input. Currently, I think I've "settled" on using patch meshes. They're simple to use, no z-fighting in radiant, hit crtl-p to hide/show and the shader script is brief. As I said, I haven't used proper decals yet (and i don't know wtf I'm doing in general) and I don...

I'm using textures with alphas and this shader: textures/wtest1/slime { surfaceparm nonsolid surfaceparm trans { map $lightmap map textures/wtest1/slime.tga blendFunc blend } } this is put on a brush with a thickness of 1 unit and placed against a wall to be used as a sort of decal. The other sides ...