God Damnation!

[Phopojijo]

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.

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...

[Inferno]

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

[Roostervier]

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:

[Llama Juice]

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...

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.

[Inferno]

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:

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

[Phopojijo]

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.

[DEElekgolo]

Setting up different shaders for each object just for lightmaps?
D:

[Phopojijo]

Setting up different shaders for each object just for lightmaps?
D:

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.

[Inferno]

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

[Roostervier]

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.