Baking Lightmaps?

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Red Ocktober (Posted 2006) [#1]

does anyone know of a way to bake a lightmap texture into a single texture, with the uv coords correct... is there a utility or tool out there that'll do this... something a lil cheaper than 3DSMax, or a util that'll take a B3d and create a single texture from multiple ones... thx --Mike

Mustang (Posted 2006) [#2]

Gile[s]?

fredborg (Posted 2006) [#3]

http://www.frecle.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=566

Red Ocktober (Posted 2006) [#4]

oh man... just what i was looking for... THANKS fredborg... --Mike

IPete2 (Posted 2006) [#5]

RED I cannot believe you had to ask!!!! Especially after telling you to use it last week! IPete2.

Red Ocktober (Posted 2006) [#6]

i dunno IP... must've got lost in the jumble that is crowding up my mind lately... sorry... --Mike

Naughty Alien (Posted 2006) [#7]

..very interesting...hmmm

skyfire1 (Posted 2006) [#8]

Maybe he's gay? who knows.

WendellM (Posted 2006) [#9]

Just to mention it: Mark's own Maplet (available on this very site <g>) bakes .B3D lightmaps. Also I've used LightMapMaker from WindSoft (now AwingSoft) with decent results. I paid the ~$30 fee when it was charged for, but then they released that full version for free. It's available at: http://www.awingsoft.com/LightMapMaker/lightmapmaker.htm Its baked lightmaps can be used with Blitz3D (I did some tests with 'em).

jfk EO-11110 (Posted 2006) [#10]

Warning: The Lightmapmaker install file from the above webpage: LMMAKER039.EXE contains the following trojan: TR/Drop.Delf.fz.1.A At least that's what Antivir says. Damage potential is rated low to medium, more infos see here: http://www.avira.com/en/threats/TR_Drop_Delf_fz_1_A_details.html It may be a mistake, like eg. when it said moleboxed EXEs are all infected, because there has been one infected moleboxed exe. (Antivir used a molebox signature). However, be careful! EDIT: I just scanned the file using the meta scanner from: http://virusscan.jotti.org/ None of the scanners found something, but "Norman Virus Control" claims to have found "W32/DIYNet.A" that is not a alias for the "TR/Drop.Delf.fz.1.A". If somebody can confirm this...

Doggie (Posted 2006) [#11]

Scanned it with Norton(latest version) and System Suite and neither found anything.

jfk EO-11110 (Posted 2006) [#12]

Ok, thanks. Nevertheless, I'd be careful with this. Avira (in fact Antivir sequel) just moved it to the quarantaine folder, so it may be harmful. Probably it was a temporary thing.