Tool is being a tool

**Tarzan** · July 15th, 2007 11:55 AM

Tool has decided it's not going to make me a debug for the lightmaps command. It claims there are UVW errors, and it was writing them to a debug file with the same name as my map file. And now it's not. On top of that, the ORIGINAL debug file is gone...

Any ideas?

**Bastinka** · July 15th, 2007 12:11 PM

Re-run the command and in your .max of the map, import debug.wrl and see where the blue faces are. Re-UV those faces.

**Tarzan** · July 15th, 2007 12:19 PM

hmmm - the errors that show up from that file don't really make sense... but o well. optimize should do the trick.

BTW - I thought lightmaps wrote to the same debug as structure, no?

**DaaxGhost** · July 15th, 2007 12:28 PM

I'm not sure. But i think it does.

**kenney001** · July 15th, 2007 03:05 PM

no. Lightmaps writes to debug.wrl, while everything else writes to (mapname).wrl
as for them not showing up, i was hoping Daax could answer. Its something to do with vista security and user accounts.....I havent completely figured out the way it works in vista, because i use XP most of the time.

**Bastinka** · July 15th, 2007 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by Tarzan

hmmm - the errors that show up from that file don't really make sense... but o well. optimize should do the trick.

BTW - I thought lightmaps wrote to the same debug as structure, no?

Optimize completely makes a mess of your model, but if you think it's right then go ahead. Optimize also screws up UV's and can screw up areas you don't want being touched.

**Mass** · July 15th, 2007 04:41 PM

Well, you could always not select the areas you don't want to be changed....

**Con** · July 15th, 2007 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by kenney001

no. Lightmaps writes to debug.wrl, while everything else writes to (mapname).wrl
as for them not showing up, i was hoping Daax could answer. Its something to do with vista security and user accounts.....I havent completely figured out the way it works in vista, because i use XP most of the time.

You have to turn off User Account Control in the Control Panel.

**Tarzan** · July 15th, 2007 10:05 PM

"k - the debug.wrl showed the errors I needed to fix. They were a result of a noise modifier I used. However, since the part that was messed up was the top of some cliffs... I didn't give a rat's a$$ if optimize screwed my faces around. Long story short - I fixed it, thanks for help, and you can't see the area optimize made ugly unless you use (cheat_super_jump) - lol