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About creating lightmap

Started by Nil_zm Jul 23, 2002 at 1:04 PM 1 reply 300+ views

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Jul 23, 2002 at 1:04 PM

Is there any way to create lightmap without writing a raytracing program? I do not know much about raytracing programming, can I create lightmap by some 3D software like Lightwave? Like some kind of plugin that can render the lightmap for me. Thanks.

greeneggs

Jul 23, 2002 at 6:06 PM

Export it to RIB and use RenderMan. There are several free compliant renderers out there; see the RenderMan FAQ. I don't know the details with LightWave, there may be a plugin which works directly.

(Hmm, BMRT has been discontinued (?!) now that nvidia has bought Exluna.)

[edited by - greeneggs on July 23, 2002 7:21:22 PM]

gmcbay

Jul 23, 2002 at 6:36 PM

Paul Nettle released a really nice radiosity-based lightmapping tool (including full source code):

http://www.fluidstudios.com/fsrad.html

There are specialized lightmapping plugins for the big 3D packages but I haven''t used any of them and they tend to be very costly.

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