Dear Light Maps !

Interesting

Somehow I'd love to have lightmaps in my current project - I'm tired of adding vertex paiting or fake baked AO into material...

Still the result gives a nice effect...

Real-time AO please.

realtime ao doesn't really give you the same effect as a nice lightmap.

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Lightmaps is the best !!! Fuck dynamic lighting !!!!!

Lightmaps are great for screenshots where nothings moving around and there's no game to play. Which is all that matters anyway.

I think the truth is right in the middle - you can make a great scene using lightmaps but not with 100% black spots and without sun lighting. With dynamic lighting from sun and other lights it can make a great mood.

Right now I'm making fake AO (bake to texture on 2nd channel or vertex paint) on meshes so it looks nice locally but in global scene I need to use special darkening meshes with some magic shaders Still it won't make the scene feel like with realistic baked lighting.

pls it won't be painkiller without lightmaps

No lightmaps here:

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Both lightmaps and real time have good and bad things about it.

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With that being said, Im really having fun messing around with UDK lately, radiosity lighting man, there's something about it that's just impossible to mimic.

Agree with HP

i bake AO into vertex with radiosity in max before cryengine 3 importing on all of my assets because the real-time solution just isn't good enough. I'd love to have a light map solution for baking AO. And even more so, lightmaps give you greater fidelity when dealing with different shadow sizes. CryENGINE handles shadow size<->source object distance better than any real time solution i've ever seen.. but baked shadows can be way better. The trade off is texture memory (to a degree, at a certain point, real time shadows cost just as much memory).

I'd just like AO baked lightmaps, is all. they look better. Unfortunately CE3 doesn't support 2nd uvw channels

not sure if it makes much sense (as it would be very expensive) but couldn't you just duplicate the faces (at least in the AO relying areas) and apply a different Sub-Material/Shader to those faces using the Decal flag in CryEngine? Those pieces could have a different UV-Layout and you could basically just have a black texture with the AO render in the Alpha-Channel

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Lightmaps is the best !!! Fuck dynamic lighting !!!!!

Come here, I would like to hug what you says.

So why is this in the 3D section again?

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not sure if it makes much sense (as it would be very expensive) but couldn't you just duplicate the faces (at least in the AO relying areas) and apply a different Sub-Material/Shader to those faces using the Decal flag in CryEngine? Those pieces could have a different UV-Layout and you could basically just have a black texture with the AO render in the Alpha-Channel

you could yeah but thatd def be really expensive lol