CGTalk - 'game' lighting

swords

02-13-2003, 08:33 AM

Hi !

for max5.1

i'm wondering if there's anyway to render a scene without any
'real' source of lighting, resulting shadows and lighlights on objects.

for example, usually when u did a low poly character for a game,
u port the model into the engine and the 'shadows and lighting'
on the character all depends on the texture u created.
'fake' light source. while the overall char's brightness is lit by
other means.

it would be useful if u can 'preview' the appearance of your char
in like those game environments while u're working on the model in max. A preview that won't show the shadows and highlight like in normal render in max.

is there any way ?? plugin ? script ? external program to export to for preview ? (like in a game environment)

i couldn't find anything so far ...

thanx !!

AXE

02-13-2003, 11:54 AM

if you want to see the environment of your game WITHOUT any kind of illumination, you can always set ALL the scene materials' Self Illuimination do 100%. This will help you to watch the geometry and textures without any illumination.

AXE

mouj

02-13-2003, 12:32 PM

Howdy !

wouldn't it be "Render to Texture" you're looking for ? create your character, light it the way you want, then bake that lighting setup in your character's maps upon rendering: you'll get lighted textures, that you can then remap on your character, and then delete your lights, see the effects without any lights on...

mouj

jadedchron

02-13-2003, 12:36 PM

mouj, ze genius. :D

swords

02-13-2003, 02:52 PM

Hey !

thank u guys :)
i'll go try what is suggusted here

thanx again ^^

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