Has anyone played around with this new feature yet? I want to add it to my sky shader so that the “stadium lighting” effect from “q3map_skylight” gets blurred out. Unfortunately, this seems to also blur the shadows I get from “q3map_sun”
Is it possible to blur the skylight, but not the sun?
As noted in the 2.5.8 thread, put the q3map_lightmapFilterRadius directive AFTER any sun directives. 
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can someone first post a pic of the diffrence, i’m a bit noob at this, and i want to see a screenie with a map compiled the old way, and one the new way. Then i can know if i do it right.
Just put your shader light stuff in this order:
q3map_sun …
q3map_lightmapFilterRadius …
q3map_skyLight …
You can even have multiple q3map_lightmapFilterRadius directives, that only affect light directives that follow it. Additional ones override the previous.
y
uhm, do you need to add something special to the command line? Like
-FilterRadius?
Ok (like those short answers, they always seem to make me laugh, maybe that’s why i’m a weirdo 
)
These new features are totally fabulous!..
This is using the following skybox shader…
textures/jeffj/box34
{
qer_editorimage textures/jeffj/box34
//q3map_bounce .3
q3map_globaltexture
//q3map_lightsubdivide 1024
//q3map_sunExt .619 .443 .203 100 0 65 2 64
q3map_sunExt .431 .286 .113 100 0 65 2 64
q3map_skylight 100 2
q3map_lightmapFilterRadius 0 64
q3map_backsplash 0 0
surfaceparm sky
surfaceparm nolightmap
surfaceparm noimpact
skyparms env/box34/box34 - -
}
The shaows are fanastic by comparison to any other version of q3map. Here is another screenie showing the shadow of a curved patch…better than -super 8 could ever have done
Tremdous job Ydnar! Thank you!
Nice shots.
BTW, put the q3map_lightmapFilterRadius line >before< q3map_skyLight.
Also, using 64 jitters on the sun is a bit overkill. 15-20 is sufficient for nearly all but the most extreme cases.
y
“nice shots”
Thanks Ydnar :). I will try the re-ordering of the shader. I tried the “16” value for the q3map_sunExt jitters and then increased the value in steps, to see the difference, 64 looked great! :). The higher values don’t increase the size or number of lightmaps in the final bsp do they? If they do, I will have to curb my smooth shadow habit…:). It seemed to me that the lightmaps were staying the same size with these changes, in which case I would recommend the highest values that your computer could compile, in a reasonable amount of time. The purity of the shadows, when using the q3map_lightmapFilterRadius 0 64 param, are awesome. I can’t thank you enough, Ydnar
RC