bad looking shadows

(burzum) #1

I want my light looking like this. Its the same what i try, some brushes forming a grid or cage with a light behind casting well looking shadows.

And this is my testmap with my very bad looking result :frowning:
Also the wall is to dark compared with the floor and the ceiling.

lightmapscale 0.5
samples 3
samplesize 4

Whats wrong ? Ive played around with nearly all settings and got only shitty shadows all the time :frowning:

Or heres another example how it should look :

penumbra_02.jpg800x600

(Loffy) #2

Hi!
Did you do light compile with bounce 1 (or higher) ?
// Loffy

(burzum) #3

Yeap, tried different values - nearly no difference :frowning:
It is possible to get this map http://www.shaderlab.com/q3map2/screenshots/penumbra_02.jpg here as an example map file ?

(ydnar) #4

I haven’t released a version of Q3Map2 with the penumbra code yet.

Been moving house, so little time to work on it lately. Hopefully this week if all goes well.

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(burzum) #5

Ok, but is it not possible to get a good looking shadow without of it ?
Like in the examples ive showed up.

(ydnar) #6

Try adding the following to the -light commandline:

-samples 2

  • OR -

-super 2

Exactly like that, with the - before super or samples.

y