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Lightmaps question

by Hadoken · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 07/11/2005 (12:32 pm) · 9 replies

I read in the TSE roadmap that in milestone 4 we'll have dynamic shadows. However, the terrain currently supports hi-res lightmaps and is being lit with them. So i was wondering... will the lightmap stuff be removed / changed when dynamic shadows are ready, or will dynamic lighting only affect dts (and/or dif) objects?
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Torque Owner Kevin Johnson
#1
07/11/2005 (12:59 pm)
I image this will work just like it does in TGE. Dynamic shadows on top of lightmapped terrain. But then again this is just a guess..

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#2
07/11/2005 (2:22 pm)
The terrain does not get lit by the lightmaps, currently. Where have you seen that?

Torque Owner Michael-Paul Jakovlevski
#3
07/11/2005 (2:33 pm)
It will have too support lightmaps eventually for the terrain blender mode too work. if they supported dynamic terrian lighting without lightmaps i would be in awe.

Associate Kyle Carter
#4
07/11/2005 (3:11 pm)
@Michael-Paul:

I'm a little unclear on what you just said, but I think I get the gist...

@Everyone else:

Yes, things are going to change for the next revision of Atlas, which should come after I get TGE 1.4 done. It'll be a marvelous time.

Torque Owner Hadoken
#5
07/11/2005 (5:01 pm)
Thank you Ben, I can't wait to see that. Any chances to know how things are going to change?
@Stefan: when I load the water demo after changing the .mis file, TSE says "lighting terrain" (or something like that) and generates .ml files, which are lightmaps i think

Torque Owner Kevin Johnson
#6
07/12/2005 (8:16 am)
@hadoken - I believe Stef is refering to atlas(the new terrain engine in TSE and not the terrain as in tge). At the moment there is no lightmap associated with it (atlas).. but its very easy to add..(code in this thread) The "lighting terrain" you are seeing in mission load is from the old terrain system..

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#7
07/12/2005 (9:28 am)
Of course I'm referring to Atlas, as this is the Shader forums :) Didn't know you (Hadoken) was still using an older HEAD.

Torque Owner Hadoken
#8
07/12/2005 (2:29 pm)
I'm using a head of a few days ago, with atlas of course... it might be that lightmaps are not actually used, but it does say "lighting mission" and generates an ml file

Associate Kyle Carter
#9
07/12/2005 (2:36 pm)
Sure. But a lot of things besides the terrain are lit. And currently in TSE, the Atlas terrain is not lightmapped, but other things are.