Quake3World

Hi.
I(a premiere n00b) was just struggling with q3 source to achieve better mapping environment.
1stly I increased animmapable texture counts up to 256.
Then I increased lightmap size in bsp up to 256 by editting the files in renderer directory and modifying the equivalent parts of q3map(soundv.c & lightv.c for vlight).
Each change was limited to only the definition of the lightmap size. (LIGHTMAP_SIZE)

After compiling quake3.exe and q3map.exe, I baked sample map to see everything went well.
The result was miserable - the lightmap size still remained 128x128 and in game they were not maped properly.

So my Y/N question is
"Isn't it so simple to change the resolution of internal lightmap?"

No.

Ty.

You're welcome.

And you might want to take a look at this.

The link to your diff file is dead.
Does this mean you deleted it because it turned out to be non-functional?

What I don't really get is the behaviour of q3map2 that it doesn't automatically write a custom shader file [q3map_mapname.shader] when using -lightmapsize argument, while it does for manually written custom shaders.

edit:
I also changed LIGHTMAP_WIDTH & LIGHTMAP_HEIGHT in qfiles.h, just in vain.

Shucks. No, the patch worked (after a fashion) but it was hosted on a domain I dropped and apparently I don't have it in local storage (i.e. my hard drive) anymore.

But it ain't that hard to do, at the core it's a matter of properly uploading the lightmap to the GPU (it's nothing but a texture after all).

On a side note, I have a patch for anaglyph support (stereoscopic view) if you want it.

^misantropia^ wrote:Shucks. No, the patch worked (after a fashion) but it was hosted on a domain I dropped and apparently I don't have it in local storage (i.e. my hard drive) anymore.

:icon22:

But it ain't that hard to do, at the core it's a matter of properly uploading the lightmap to the GPU (it's nothing but a texture after all).

O.K.
I'll take my time.

On a side note, I have a patch for anaglyph support (stereoscopic view) if you want it.

No, thanks. :icon31:

edit:
It(internal 256x256 lightmap) had already worked.
I was silly enough to check the result by exporting lightmaps via q3map2 which always forces the size of 128x128 even if stored as 256x256 in a bsp.

What is the benefit of increasing the lightmap texture size? The artifacts issue would surely be better off fixed rather than reduced by larger light map textures having fewer seams.

It allows for finer details on the lightmap. It's mostly a cosmetic feature and only useful (I think) if you use q3map2 to import/export lightmaps and draw on them yourself.

Ah ok, thanks. What are the lightmap artifacts and are they fixable?