God Damnation!

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Originally Posted by Llama Juice

You can have UT3 generate UVs for you, but they usually turn out garbage.

Your UVs for your lightmaps can just be an auto map on a 2nd UV channel... it doesn't have to be anything fancy.

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Yeah that's usually what I do, but if you can take the extra few minutes for an important wall to remove as many seems as possible... makes it look a bit better... also optimizes lightmap usage...

Yeah I just did a flatten mapping on the 2nd channel for all the meshes. Looks decent.

Your cubemap is set up incorrectly. There shouldn't be any visible seems in the view of the collective images. Should be more like this:

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4574/cubeut3.png

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Originally Posted by Phopojijo

Yeah that's usually what I do, but if you can take the extra few minutes for an important wall to remove as many seems as possible... makes it look a bit better... also optimizes lightmap usage...

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Yea, usually for mine I'll either just not tile any textures (on a static) so I can use my primary UV set, or if there's overlapping UVs I'll just run a Layout UVs and that'll lay everything out so there's no overlapping stuff... doesn't work so well with tiling textures and such though.

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Originally Posted by flyinrooster

Your cubemap is set up incorrectly. There shouldn't be any visible seems in the view of the collective images. Should be more like this:

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4574/cubeut3.png

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Um... I know. That's why I posted it. What order do i put the bitmaps in.........

Actually for Chimpire I'm going to be using this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaMVg4vJDFA&fmt=22

So I'll be avoiding Unreal lighting for most things... mixing in pre-computed GI lightmaps into the shaders themselves. The only thing that'll affect lighting outside of the lightmaps are like -- dynamic lights on characters. A good substitute for the elusive Unreal Lightmass.

Still have to deal with the terrible material-lookup lag... but the textures can be much more simple with the massive lighting detail... also can script lightmap swapping if say -- someone turns on a lightswitch or something.

Setting up different shaders for each object just for lightmaps?
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Originally Posted by DEEhunter

Setting up different shaders for each object just for lightmaps?
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Shader instances with a texture parameter... not sure if there's some overhead to that though.

... and it saves me time in the optimizing phase... since there's only like -- 2-3 lights in the level otherwise.

That lighting method looks nice but complex. I'm still learning the engine.

I had to guess with the order, and my bitmaps are named forward back front left right etc so I can't really help you there. Tbh it looks like your top and bottom bitmaps arent rotated correctly or something. trying to fix it would really be trial and error.