Heres another little snippet for applying lightmaps:

Code:

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 str_for_entfile(tempstring,my);

  str_lwr(tempstring);
  str_cpy(lightstring,"z");
  str_cat(lightstring,tempstring);

  //load model with light map uv-set	
  e2 = ent_create(lightstring, nullvector, 0);

  //generate and assign a new mesh with both uv-sets
  ent_loadseconduvset(my, e2);
  ent_remove(e2);

 

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Basically you can just save your models that contains lightmaps with a "z" in front of there original names. If you put this in your action, every entity with this action will load a lightmap. If you want to have only some entities with this action load them, then you can just specify that with a flag or skill.

I wish there was a way to morph the skin2 of an entity. It would make automatic lightmap texture assigning to your non-lightmap models skin2 possible.

I get a beta expired message.

Can you tell me about the stability of the plugin? What can cause crashes, are there things to pay special attention to?

Other than that I am ready to license the plugin

I created a fixed function effect that combines color texture, normal-map via dot3-bumpmapping and the lightmap coming from second uv-set. I am planning to create similar effects for metal, glass and reflection via cube-maps.

So I am also very interested in licensing to check that out.

mesh_plugin_demo.zip ~ 2.8mb

i have uploaded a time unlimited demo with a 777 polygon limit.

i don't think it will crash anymore.

things to know:
- the two models must have the same face count
- the vertices of the two models must be at exactly the same positions
- the triangles of the two models must have the same vertex order
(these three points usually are the case if you export them from the same application)
- you can't use vec_for_mesh/vec_to_mesh anymore with a replaced mesh
- it only works with the beta at the moment

if you want to license it already you can write me a pm.

(something else to know:
there seems to be a model loading bug in the recent betas.
http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/751735/an/0/page/0#Post751735
my plugin is only interested in the texture coordinates of the second model but because of this bug the second model needs some dummy texture. best assign the light map as external texture like in my example. this isn't a problem of my plugin though.)

so does this work without the beta yet?

So we just have to hope that an A6.6 will appear very soon.

by the way... 6.6 is out now!

testing it at the moment.
but my model is very.. VERY dark...
I don't know why.. any clue?

the brightness depends on the used material and on your light map.

i think with my example material every light map value above 128 brightens the texture and every value below 128 darkens the texture.

<edit> i checked your models and the reason was that they didn't have the same scale. the vertices must have exactly the same positions otherwise the triangles won't be found on the second model. if a triangle doesn't get found its texture coordinates of the second uv-set get set to 0. </edit>

ok, got it to work
here my test:
without 2nd uv map


with 2nd uv map:


nice