Lighting maps

[wotwot]

Hi
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[nemchenk]

...didn't finish your sentence! 

The forum seems to do this to some people's posts -- edit using a separate (simple) text editor, and check after you posted to make sure it is there. It seems maybe special characters like "fancy quotes" etc screw things up.


HTH,

nemchenk

[wotwot]

When I compile a map, the shadows appear kinda blocky. I was wondering how to make shadows less blocky/more blurred like in Village-day maps. Is there some parameter for it maybe? I can handle Radiant quite well but this lighting/shadowing thing is sth that I havent figured out yet.

Damn I hate this forum allready, it took few tries to post this message too 

[wotwot]

Another question: How to make mapmodels cast shadows? I got picture that I need to use geometry that is invisible in-game to cast shadow for the model. The problem is that I cant make geometry with nodraw-flag to cast shadows..

[BTAxis]

Strange, that should work.

[wotwot]

I have this same problem on two different windows machines. I have evaded this problem by copying piece of geometry with nodraw-flag from some map included with the game and then using it as seed for geometry I want to have nodraw flag.. Im confused.

[Mattn]

use some parameters to get extra samples

e.g.
./ufo2map -extra -chop 256 -radchop 256 <mapname>

you can also play around with the bounce parameter - e.g. -bound 2

[wotwot]

Thank you