Stupid shadows...

[Cmdr. Antilles]

Does anyone know how to get rid of the shadows at the edge of each brush in my map?

 

http://home.attbi.com/~davidcrivera/images/jk2/sarlacc_pit.jpg

 

Take a look. Those shadows make each brush very obvious, and ruins the effect of the terrain.

 

Any suggestions on how to get rid of them, short of applying no lightmap?

 

Thanks.

[Xcom]

Are those structural or detail brushes?

[Cmdr. Antilles]

I haven't made them detail, so they're default-structural.

 

Does that have anything to do w/ it?

[Xcom]

Not sure. Was just curious.

I had similar problem with EF map long time ago. Don't remember what I did then.

[Cmdr. Antilles]

LOL.

 

Thanks.

[Xcom]

Ah, yes...I remembered what I did.

I applied vertex lighting to the brushes. It became somewhat better. Have no clue whether this will work for you cuz you seem to have lots of brushes there.

Shader should be made for the texture covering those brushes:

textures/myfolder/mytexture_vertex
{
     qer_editorimage textures/myfolder/mytexture.tga
     q3map_nolightmap
//      q3map_onlyvertexlighting
    {
           map textures/myfolder/mytexture.tga
           rgbGen vertex
    }
}

 

Again, not sure if this will work. JK2 has slightly different shader codes.

[Cmdr. Antilles]

I spent most of today trying to get vertex lighting to work...

 

I'll give that a try, but why is 'q3map_onlyvertexlighting' commented out?

[Xcom]

Originally posted by Cmdr. Antilles

why is 'q3map_onlyvertexlighting' commented out?

 

Cuz I am bit confused with JK2 shaders. They are different from those of EF. I am not sure if onlyvertexlighting is needed here and I cannot test it right now.

[Cmdr. Antilles]

Yeah, theyr'e all crazy-like. I'm too lazy to test it now... I'll get back to you next time I compile.