Hi, this is not realy a project, but more a test of
1) new import level from fbx (mini level created in maya 2008)
2) new lightmapper + radiosity

here is the little test:

http://game.irilys.eu/olivier/start.cd.rar

Nice..I like this level..

The level design is great, nice coloring
The radiosity effect of the lightmapper is indeed a super add towards the scene plausiblity, you made good use of it

Cheers

Frazzle

p.s.
This level look like one from "spyro"..

Thanks for sharing it, because I didn't have the time to try such myself, yet.

How many lights did you set?
I guess that you textured it in WED, because of the standard textures, or did you do that in maya, already?

From this example I can see how it works and what sort of modeling should be avoided.

You added block by block, but you most probably should build the walls from single sided walls, where each surface of the inside should stay inside, and each surface of the outside should stay outside to avoid 'intersections' of the lighting of inside and outside.

nice looking level

This is an interesting test. Can you please add a shader with some spec normal-mapping that also takes these shadow maps into account?

Thanks for comments!
Pappenheimer: there is 3 statics lights, a little bit of ambiant light and the sun light too.
Yes it's standard textures but I've made some tests with personnals textures placed in maya (uv,...) and fbx import work well in this case too.
For this level the methode is easy: all the level is made in maya, I group all and export to fbx. After I import all as mesh.

Machinery_Frank : Actually I don't have enough knowledge of 3dgs to do that, but I upload the .wmp file if you want to make some tests.

the file : http://game.irilys.eu/olivier/start.wmp