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Light leaks in mapped interior

by Joe O · in Artist Corner · 08/29/2006 (8:29 am) · 5 replies

I created a map and I can see leaks in the lighting in the interior where the brushes touch. I have searched the forums and have not found any suitable solutions to the problem. In a last ditch effort I'm trying the forums. Has any found a solution to this problem? Is there something I can add to my .map to clean up the leaks? Is there a post process I can run that will glue the seams together? Any help or insight is appreciated.
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Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#1
08/29/2006 (9:47 am)
-Is your model portaled and leak-free (ie, if you have "ambient light does not pass through" turned on, is it pitch black except for added lights)?
-Try extending the walls to the top of the ceiling and bottom of the floor brushes. Yeah, I know that is counterintuitive, and yet it sometimes works.
-Some say that dove-tailing the corners (making them meet at a diagonal point) helps. Note, on rare occasions this can actually cause a zone leak.

Torque Owner Joe O
Average Joe Software
#2
08/29/2006 (10:06 am)
You're first bullet is interesting... I have no clue what that means :) I'm using a version of Radiant for the Mac at the moment and it's not really geared for doing specifically Torque interiors... I hope that's not yet another problem with the Mac platform :(

Second, the outer walls have breaks in them because of the windows and door frames and such. Should I try fitting them like so? (Sorry about the crummy ASCII art :)

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Thanks for the response!

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#3
08/29/2006 (12:31 pm)
You may want to use portals on any openings to the outside. You can find some good information on portals (and other types of brushes) here.

I think some other people use Radiant to map, though I'm not sure.

Torque Owner Curtis Hielema
#4
09/04/2006 (4:14 pm)
Bevel the edges by bending the verticies so that a corner will meet evenly. This helps with the lighting a little bit, though there are still light leaks all over the place with default torque lighting. You basically have to own the lighting pack to use Torque.

Torque 3D Owner Kevin Rogers
#5
09/06/2006 (6:22 pm)
I rarely see light leaks with my interior structures. Here are some things to try:

* Make outer walls thicker. Simple, but it works.

* Overlap brushes slightly.

* To seal correctly, portals should always overlap into surrounding brushes, e.g. your door and window frames.

* If your sunlight angle is too closely aligned with brush seams, there is a greater chance of it leaking. Sometimes just tweaking the sunlight angle can make a huge difference.

* Adjusting the geometry scale from the default 32 may have some effect -- I often use 16 for my DIFs...

Having never tried Radiant with Torque, I don't know if that has any effect or not. I currently use Hammer, while I'm waiting for Constructor to be released.