In my level I have created a lot of doorposts, framerate is dropping, so I changed it into a model.
Selected the doorpost, exported as a model to MED (new possibility in A7).
But the result is a lot different then the original, the color is much brighter and the texture is seen as separated on the different parts.
Here is an image of what I mean;


Shot at 2007-07-07

Has anyone an idea how to prevent those events?

The lighting/shadowing of level blocks and that of models ist different.

You should use the imported door in MED only as measure for the proportions for the door model wich you build up from scratch in MED.

Even then the lighting/shadowing will be different. Maybe, choosing a lower ambient for the model, or setting its unlit flag, will change the lighting as you please..

There's an option when exporting from WED (A7) to MDL7 for "Faces Separation"--if you choose that, then you don't get that broken-up look with different shading for different blocks (with those "seams" you're seeing in that left picture). What you get instead is the consistent shading effect across a number of different blocks like in the right-side picture. So there's something going on there with geometry/shading, but it doesn't necessarily mean the model needs to be built again from scratch. I had this same problem previously with A6, and nobody really had an explanation for it, but now I see the difference in A7 and know that one does not have to rebuild a model to fix this.

it's called gouraud shading and is best to turn off with pappenheimer's tweaking or open the model in MED, go to its skin, go to its material settings and put all the diffuse on zero and turn up the ambient.

however, it shouldn't be necessary to change such a simple geometric structure to a model to increase performance. i'm no expert but using the WED block version (with [detail] flag set) may help your fps and still have the precalculated lighting.

galen's flat-shading may suffice depending on what you're going for.

julz

Thanks guys, I will try your suggestions.