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Ashe Tie'skar

08-25-2003, 11:52 PM

Hi,

I have the plugin for baking a light map and i know the render to texture works fairly well, but my question is: Is there a special way you should create lighting for a game character?

I heard something about (and i think this has to do with normal mapping) but you make a sphere around the character and the sphere is the light source or something.. i dunno...

Any suggestions on how i create the best light source to bake the best light map?

If this is the wrong forum, please tell me which one i should post in...

Thanks,

Ashe

TheWriter

08-26-2003, 12:13 AM

I am not an expert on it, but I don't remember you needing a plug in for max to do a lightmap.

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