IrrEdit - shadowz. (pic heavy)

dandi8 · Post by **dandi8** » Thu May 07, 2009 2:06 am

I shall destroy the earth by spamming this forum with my questionz! jk

I've been playing around with IrrEdit and decided I want to have some shadows in my map so I made a quick shadows pass with the lightmap tool. To my confusion, the shadows were all messed up and rendered as if the map model was flat shaded (and it's gouraud, I tells ya).

Pic (global illumination):

Pic (shadows):

How do I fix this?

Here's a target render showing how I want this to look like:

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Thu May 07, 2009 2:14 pm

Yeah I noticed that to when I tried. I'm just using Blender now

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hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu May 07, 2009 2:15 pm

Did you check that your normals are actually smoothed? Maybe you use 3ds models?

Cloudef · Post by **Cloudef** » Thu May 07, 2009 4:18 pm

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=for ... 149927&b=8

Maybe we need to port that to Irrlicht? I've used 3DWS and its pretty nifty mapper, but getting the native 3dw format supported by irrlicht would be really neat. I may look into that source later. Should be pretty straight forward as it is in Basic.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu May 07, 2009 7:38 pm

There's a 3dw loader available on the forum.

Cloudef · Post by **Cloudef** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:41 pm

Really?
Gonna search for it, thanks hybrid!

dandi8 · Post by **dandi8** » Thu May 07, 2009 9:19 pm

I'm pretty much tied to OBJ as that's the only format my app hasn't got problems exporting to.

timetokill · Post by **timetokill** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:19 pm

I've definitely had problems with OBJ and some shadowing/texturing. I've seen the flat shading issue too.

I've taken to just converting everything I have to B3D, it seems to like that format a lot better.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:39 pm

.obj has not necessarily normals. Better make sure your model contains normals. Otherwise you get flat shaded lighting.

dandi8 · Post by **dandi8** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:34 pm

It has normals, I already said somewhere that I checked for that. I imported the OBJ back to my 3D app and the normals were OK.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri May 08, 2009 7:13 am

MAybe they use smoothing groups there. As said, check that the *file* has *normals*

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Fri May 08, 2009 1:59 pm

I tested .b3d versus .obj for you. It didn't work with either of them.

dandi8 · Post by **dandi8** » Fri May 08, 2009 6:21 pm

What do you mean, 3DModelerMan?

Lonesome Ducky · Post by **Lonesome Ducky** » Fri May 08, 2009 9:21 pm

IrrEdit lightmaps don't do smooth. They just don't. Try [g]iles, it's been released as a freeware just a few months ago, and is a very powerful lightmapper.

Eagle_Eye · Post by **Eagle_Eye** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:57 am

I tried to look for it on google but i couldn't find it. can you provide a link?

Irrlicht Engine

IrrEdit - shadowz. (pic heavy)

IrrEdit - shadowz. (pic heavy)

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