Irrlicht Engine

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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:

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

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

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.

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

Really?
Gonna search for it, thanks hybrid!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

What do you mean, 3DModelerMan?

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.

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