A few interesting apps for you guys to try out

[vampirefrog]

I've found a few interesting programs that might (ok this is starting to sound like spam) be useful.

• Light Map Maker -- it imports a model and calculates the lightmaps and exports it back
• Awakening -- Made by the same people, it looks like some sort of 3D editor that goes with Light Map Maker
• gile[s] -- a "global illumination editor", it too can calculate lightmaps.
• tree[d] -- 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.

[Apollo]

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.

[vampirefrog]

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.

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?

[Apollo]

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.

[vampirefrog]

can you make a sample tree?

[Apollo]

Aye, I can.