Hye David, can you tell us something about how you used giles in creating shadows?
I am very interested because you showed few nice screens. Thnx

I used it a little, quite useful indeed, its been a while tho, so im of no help, but i use blender for my lightmaps

Hey Dex

I'm using Ventilator's plugin. You make a mesh level, export it to .obj or some other format to get your mesh level into giles. In giles add lights, for an outdoor scene I like to use global illumination for lovely level ambient and use a directional light for the sun. Once you've compiled the lightmap, you export to either .x or .3ds format. When you export it will give you two files, the mesh level with the textures and no lightmapping, and another version of the model with a special uv set for the lightmap. You then import both of these models into separate mdl files and plug it into Ventilator's plugin.

The exporting process from giles I found most difficult, I exported to the .3ds version for the textured mesh model, and exported to .x to get the lightmapped model. The reason being that the export of the lightmapped version for .3ds didn't import well to med for me, and vice versa for .x.

Hope it helps.

David

It will be much, much easier if we can do all this in WED, dont you think?
Hm, but I think that I am very boring with constantly crying to get any shadow system on terrains

for terrains you don't need my tool. terrains don't need a second uv-set since its uvs just are a planar projection which can be scaled arbitrarily for each texture. you just would have to improve my terrain light mapping script from the wiki a bit. adding lighting equations and support for multiple lights would be easy.

thanks! it could be that fbx works quite well with MED but direct mdl7 support of course would be nicer. with mdl7.lib it shouldn't be that much work for the gile[s] author(s?).

gile[s] just would have to export two mdl7 files. one with the textures and the first uv-set and one with the light map and the second uv-set. but i think that's how gile[s] handles most other supported formats too?

I'm not sure, the best thing would be for someone who knows better to post in that thread and suggest that path so that if they do decide to implement MDL7 export, they'll know the best way for us. It will also be essential they have the latest MDL7 libraries. I just posted the WIKI page. Here's the thread:

http://www.frecle.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=316

Tried the demo and like the screenshots very much. Question: What do I need to get this into -> A7 (lite-c)? Currently I have Blender / Lightwave installed. Also, must I wait with the purchase of Gile(s) until Frecle finish FBX exporter and Conitec release A7 final? Guess if Gile(s) could export FBX and WED FBX importer is ready the results would be very good right!?