q3map_lightmapFilterRadius blurring

[chavo_one]

Has anyone played around with this new feature yet? I want to add it to my sky shader so that the "stadium lighting" effect from "q3map_skylight" gets blurred out. Unfortunately, this seems to also blur the shadows I get from "q3map_sun"

Is it possible to blur the skylight, but not the sun?

[ydnar]

As noted in the 2.5.8 thread, put the q3map_lightmapFilterRadius directive AFTER any sun directives. :)

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[lennyballa]

can someone first post a pic of the diffrence, i'm a bit noob at this, and i want to see a screenie with a map compiled the old way, and one the new way. Then i can know if i do it right.

[ydnar]

Just put your shader light stuff in this order:

q3map_sun ...
q3map_lightmapFilterRadius ...
q3map_skyLight ...


You can even have multiple q3map_lightmapFilterRadius directives, that only affect light directives that follow it. Additional ones override the previous.

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[lennyballa]

uhm, do you need to add something special to the command line? Like
-FilterRadius?

[ydnar]

No.

[lennyballa]

Ok (like those short answers, they always seem to make me laugh, maybe that's why i'm a weirdo :p )

[chavo_one]

damn. Missed that one ydnar. Thanks!

[RabidCow]

These new features are totally fabulous!...

http://64.180.91.204/q3map_sunExtb.jpg

This is using the following skybox shader..

textures/jeffj/box34
{
qer_editorimage textures/jeffj/box34
//q3map_bounce .3
q3map_globaltexture
//q3map_lightsubdivide 1024
//q3map_sunExt .619 .443 .203 100 0 65 2 64
q3map_sunExt .431 .286 .113 100 0 65 2 64
q3map_skylight 100 2
q3map_lightmapFilterRadius 0 64
q3map_backsplash 0 0


surfaceparm sky
surfaceparm nolightmap
surfaceparm noimpact

skyparms env/box34/box34 - -

}


The shaows are fanastic by comparison to any other version of q3map. Here is another screenie showing the shadow of a curved patch...better than -super 8 could ever have done :)

http://64.180.91.204/q3map_sunExtc.jpg

Tremdous job Ydnar! Thank you!

[ydnar]

Nice shots.

BTW, put the q3map_lightmapFilterRadius line >before< q3map_skyLight.

Also, using 64 jitters on the sun is a bit overkill. 15-20 is sufficient for nearly all but the most extreme cases.

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[RabidCow]

"nice shots"
Thanks Ydnar :). I will try the re-ordering of the shader. I tried the "16" value for the q3map_sunExt jitters and then increased the value in steps, to see the difference, 64 looked great! :). The higher values don't increase the size or number of lightmaps in the final bsp do they? If they do, I will have to curb my smooth shadow habit...:). It seemed to me that the lightmaps were staying the same size with these changes, in which case I would recommend the highest values that your computer could compile, in a reasonable amount of time. The purity of the shadows, when using the q3map_lightmapFilterRadius 0 64 param, are awesome. I can't thank you enough, Ydnar :)
RC