Yes, but in this case the problem is, that
the tesselation does not work over modelboundaries.

If there would be a chance to "link" the objects (at the connection edges)
by code, the shading could be realized evenly.

Withou this, there will be visible seams
when using a moving dynamic light for example.

maybe in some way the geometry of the final parts could help to hide this, or some uniform tesselation size might make this less...obvious...

I've nearly finished simple UV for all the parts so I can give them a simple texture bake, theres no real point optimizing the uv at this stage as the geom is not essential. Still I thought it was worth doing so that we can get a real look at lighting issues...

I will get a handful of them into the engine by brute force just to have a look...

I've nearly finished exporting all the parts, but I couldn't resist experimenting with the parts that I have done already and this is what came out:



Here's a shot, again from WED, of some of the other parts.



I am exporting all the door parts now, but I will need to revisit this entire process once I have a better idea of naming conventions.

For now I just want to get all the parts exported and ready to use...

TIA for any comments

it might have been smart to render the ao with a temporary piece at the each connection edge because now the ao fades in and out at the connections...

I think SSAO would be a well working solution in this case...
(damn, that reminds me that I´ve to prepare a presentation about SSAO for English until Tuesday )

Thanks guys. TBH Lostclimate I just texture baked each part quickly so that I had some form of shading on each part so I could see it clearly for testing.

Once I have a good working map with these parts I can return to think about how the final parts will be exported. I did some earlier experiments with this method and had 2-3 parts with normal mapping and specular maps, which seemed to help the lighting issues, however its clear that the individual parts approach doesn't help the dynamic lighting system.

Hopefully I can get some parts with all the shaders working and see how the lighting looks. Right now its pretty ugly

Now that I have all the parts as models which I've now reduced to 16mx16mx6m as the original size was way too big, I should be able to creat a map that uses all the parts.

Each part has a 1024x1024 map assigned to give me an idea of how much memory this is going to use and then figure out a way to dynamically load the parts as the players move through...

I should be able to build a live 3x3 grid and load in the other parts as the player explores...so it should also give me the fog-of-war for parts that have not been explored yet.

As always I am getting ahead of myself...

Great progress !

Another idea, could be connected rooms , when you ente'r a door , you enter a new very little tiled dungeon part with doors also : like Zelda on Nes , but with some more rooms visible at same time.


Keep up the work !

Here we can see the beasty raising its head even with normal/spec shader on the section..



The sections are both lit by the dynamic light for the telepath attack, but as suggested earlier, its made a real pigs ear of that...

Any ideas? Or does this route kill the use of dynamic lights?

TIA for any suggestions...

I don´t know what shader you are using, but you can try to create a copy of it, which will be used for the big parts only and place the following line into pass (probably more than one) of the shaders technique to disable gouraud shading and to enable flat shading for it:
ShadeMode = Flat;

So that it should look somehow like this:


(sry, for the ugly formatting, I just copied it from the wiki and pasted that line...)

You know I am so out of my depth with shaders most of what you just wrote shot right over my head...

I think I should revisit the wiki and take a look at the shaders, i've somewhat pickled this one and no idea where it came from in the first place.

Thanks Slin

EDIT: Ok it is that shader from the wiki... trying to figure out what I have to change. Thanks for the pointers, I will let you know how I get on

EDIT2: I have made these changes but the lighting issue still remains.?!?