How are stored the lightmaps in the Quake III maps?

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Mel
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How are stored the lightmaps in the Quake III maps?

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The question is simply that. How are stored the lightmaps inside a Quake III BSP? Is a single, large map, or are small ones, or even, maybe it is one per polygon?
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It's a fixed texture size of 128'128 multiple light maps are stored in one file but the uvmapping is weird, a single lightmap can have polygons from all over the level allocated to it
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