Lighting and Shadows in Halo CE? how to improve them?

[SonicXtreme]

Hey all i just recently got back into mapping , and i was wondering , whats the best solution for getting the lighting in levels to look better and higher quality , and also to get the shadows to look better than the normal stuff , because i tried to create something before and it looks a right mess at the moment purely because of the shadows.

Thanks in advance

Sonic

[chrisk123999]

Aether.

[Ganon]

http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=13546

[Advancebo]

Aether.
Aether is just a tool, it doesnt do it all for you.


You use Aether to obtain the BSP and lightmaps. Then import the bsp into Max and apply the Lightmaps as a material to the BSP. Then place Omnis, Spotlights, etc to light up the map. Then bake it. The re inject the lightmaps using Aether.

[SonicXtreme]

Hey again all , i have been experimenting with Aether , and i cannot get the hang of it atall , i have viewed the tutorial , i already knew how to render to texture anyways before i viewed it , followed it step by step and its going awfull each time , if someone could lend me a hand with this one BSP then it would prove very helpful at the moment.

[Advancebo]

Whats the problem?

[SonicXtreme]

well , i do everything right , and the lighting still looks shit , infact it goes worse than when you run 0 0.9 in Sapien , and its horrid ¬_¬

[Advancebo]

What size was the lightmap?

[Higuy]

make sure to re size the import and use dither.
Make all the new lightmap bitmaps 1024, whenever I import them in as 2048 it exceptions.