Dear Light Maps !

[knj]

FUCK YOU !!!!!

[mjens]

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...

[knj]

men, light maps are so last year i hate them

[mjens]

Still the result gives a nice effect...

[knj]

ok true, i just want a guy who will make'em insted of me, LightMapGuy

[deceiver]

Real-time AO please.

[Rick_D]

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

[mjens]

[ElectroSheep]

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

[Erratic]

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

[mjens]

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.

[knj]

seir, a load shit of work you got there dude !

[KoKo5oVaR]

pls it won't be painkiller without lightmaps

[PyroGXPilot]

No lightmaps here:

[-HP-]

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

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.