Radiosity Lightmaps

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simonh (Posted 2003) [#1]

Anyone know of any tools that can be used to output radiosity lightmaps, much in the same way that Maplet outputs standard lightmaps for levels?

sswift (Posted 2003) [#2]

There is a plugin for Max called Luminaire. I'm pretty sure it's free. And that it can bake radiosity lightmaps as long as you already have non-overlapping coordinates.

elias_t (Posted 2003) [#3]

Fsrad can do this and it is free to use. www.fluidstudios.com/fsrad.html But you have to figure out the input and output format it is using. And they are not giving much info about this...

simonh (Posted 2003) [#4]

Yeah, I experimented with that program a while back and got as far as writing an importer for Blitz (colours are inverted here though): But sadly I could never get the exporter working, so could never produce lightmaps for my own scenes! Perhaps I'll have another crack at it.

simonh (Posted 2003) [#5]

Woohoo! Finally got the .oct exporter working so I can now lightmap my own scenes. Here's a scene from B3D which was created in Maplet, and then lightmapped in FSRad. It's a bit dark, but I'm still playing around with the various option, trying to get the best results. The red dot at the top is the light source.

elias_t (Posted 2003) [#6]

Wow impressive ! You wrote the exporter by studying the source or have you found the file format specs ?

simonh (Posted 2003) [#7]

I studied the source, which I must admit was quite confusing at times. I still can't get my head around the .ent file format. Anyway I'll release the source code to all this soon...