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Error message from map2dif

by Robert Rice · in Artist Corner · 03/07/2005 (9:47 pm) · 3 replies

I was attempting to run map2dif on a .map file I created from Deled. I have done this successfully before, so I am pretty sure it is not the program itself. I create the interior in Deled and export it to .map format. Then, I run map2dif, and get this message "Light map too large: 321 x 76 (where max is 256 x 256). You have a brush that is too large, or your light map scale value may be too small."

Any idea on what causes this, and how to remedy it?

Robert
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Torque Owner Dirk "dirkk" Krause
#1
03/08/2005 (8:34 am)
From the error message I would think that indeed you have a very large item that causes a very large lightmap. If this is the case then I would create several smaller objects instead of one big one. If that fails, send the DeleD file to me, and I'll have a look at it.

Torque Owner Robert Rice
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#2
03/09/2005 (11:53 am)
Dirkk,
Yeah, I was just playing around and did not realize that there was such a limit like that. It was a very large, but very basic object, so I just shrunk it and tried it again successfully. Is it always the case that for such large objects you need to break them down into smaller components?

Torque Owner Dirk "dirkk" Krause
#3
03/09/2005 (12:02 pm)
Good that it works.

I bet you tried the same thing as I did - pulling up a large small box as a floor, right :-)?

Well, this is a limitation from either map2dif or TGE, not from DeleD or the exporter.

Certainly a legitimate limitation though, because otherwise there very memory consuming lightmaps would be allowed.