I've found a few interesting programs that might (ok this is starting to sound like spam) be useful.
- Light Map Maker (http://www.awingsoft.com/LightMapMaker/lightmapmaker.htm) -- it imports a model and calculates the lightmaps and exports it back
- Awakening (http://www.awingsoft.com/download/download.htm) -- Made by the same people, it looks like some sort of 3D editor that goes with Light Map Maker
- gile[s] (http://www.frecle.net/index.php?show=giles.about) -- a "global illumination editor", it too can calculate lightmaps.
- tree[d] (http://www.frecle.net/index.php?show=treed.about) -- seems to make trees. perhaps it can do alpha maps and we can export from it and import into sauer
The reason i posted the lightmap makers is because if they turn out to give good results (i've tried gile[s] and it looks decent), an export command can be written for sauer, and then an import command to import the calculated lightmaps -- ie we'd have GI, radiosity and whatnot in sauer.
Perhaps we can play with them and see what results we get.
Very nice. We could pre-light all out models to a point, to eliminate loss of complex details.
As for the tree app, I've tried that a while ago, it works fairly well, but it isn't quite as versatile as one might hope.
Quote from: Jake on February 03, 2010, 01:19:35 AM
Very nice. We could pre-light all out models to a point, to eliminate loss of complex details.
I wasn't talking about mapmodels, i meant the actual map.
Quote from: Jake on February 03, 2010, 01:19:35 AM
As for the tree app, I've tried that a while ago, it works fairly well, but it isn't quite as versatile as one might hope.
It can't do alpha masks?
It can do alpha. What I don;t like is limitations regarding tree shape. Don't get me wrong though, it can do quite a lot regarding shape, but not as much as I would personally like.
can you make a sample tree?
Aye, I can.