Some artefacts in the Lightmap

[Qbound]

Hi Aaron,

in my Lightmap i have found some Artefacts. Because of the high calculation time i will start the recalculation tonight.

Here are the Artefacts. They look like a Mem/Pagingproblem because of the shape of a quad.




The parameters from the map are:
Size: 8192*8192
LMOversampling: 8
TXOversampling: 4
Paging: enabled

System: AMD FX57 / 2Gig DualRam / 2*7800GTX / 600GB SATA2 / WinXP

Greetings,
Oliver

[Aaron]

Hi Oliver,

Thanks for the bug report. I agree; this definitely looks like a mosaic-map problem (possibly a bug in the unify-scales routine). I'm trying to reproduce this now...

Cheers,
Aaron.

[Aaron]

Hello again,

A few questions:

- Were shadows enabled in the light map calc?
- Did you edit or view any of the files in the heightfield mosaic?

Cheers,
Aaron

[Qbound]

Hi Aaron,

- Yes the shadows were enabled
- No... the only thing i did, was heavy coding in Visual Studio

bye, Oliver

[Aaron]

Hi Oliver,

My test-run last night on an 8kx8k HF with 64kx64k LM didn't show up anything unusual. Can you send me the .mgf, .def and .dmf files for this map please? (aaron.torpy@yahoo.com preferred).

My thought was that this is a problem with the scaling on tiles in either the heightfield or the water-map. If there was a problem in the heightfield, it would have produced anomalous shadows (which it didn't seem to do). That leaves the water-map as the suspect.

In L3DT can you enable the ‘View->Display effects->Draw mosaic tiles’ option and take another screen-cap of the light-map? This will show-up whether the blocks are lined-up with light-map tiles, or with water-map tiles.

Also, can you load the map in L3DTVi2 and find one of these areas? It would be nice to see what is happening in 3D.

Cheers,
Aaron.

[Qbound]

Hi Aaron,

at the beginning of the week i had to reinstall my computer this is the reason why i answer so late. The problems could be some kind of problem with my system. I lost a great bunch of data incl. the map. _sorry_
I had some trouble with the software raid. Now they are solved and i run a 32k*32k map. If there is a problem with the system or the software it might show up in this map, but it will take some time. (3-5days)

I am very pleased about your professional reaction on errors and problems in your program.

Great support very professional.
Greetings Oliver