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Lightmaps by 3dmax

Started by Halo Vortex May 17, 2002 at 10:28 AM 2 replies 200+ views
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Halo Vortex
Halo Vortex
Does anybody know if it''s possible to make 3D Studio Max 4 calculate all lightmaps (preferably with Shadows, to ask too much, even some Radiosity =) ) and save them to buffer/file, render them in a window or whatever. I''m just kinda lazy to generate them myself, plus quality is going to be much higher by such a professional product.
Yann L
Yann L
Max doesn''t calculate lightmaps by itself. There are plugins available, that can do that for you. A free exporter with lightmap support is Flexporter. I never used it, so I don''t know how good lightmaps are, though.
3dcgi
3dcgi
A plugin called Luminaire can export them with radiosity.
http://www.maxshade.com

It''s not perfect, but the plugin is open source so you can probably tweak it to do what you want.



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