Product Chat / Lightmapping: Entities not showing effects - finally SOLVED

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Duchenkuke
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Posted: 8th Nov 2017 22:26 Edited at: 8th Nov 2017 22:31
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Hey guys

I have finally come to a solution for the lightmapping problem that has been bugging me for months now.
And now I wanna share my knowledge.

Are you having this problem too?
Entites not having shadows?






Simply do this:
Edit the FPE and add to the line "effects" : effectbank\reloaded\entity_basic.fx





DONE !
It was that simple... Just a missing line in the FPE.




HOPE this helps for some of you!
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Posted: 9th Nov 2017 03:08
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Nicely done. I think I recall coming across that info a while ago and could have sworn I put it on my blog but it's still good to have on the forum here incase people are searching.
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Posted: 9th Nov 2017 08:39
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oh ! I didnt know that..

And I thought I made a ground breaking discovery haha

You know you watched too many of Lee's Live Brodcasts when you're at work and have an earwig from his twitch intro music....

By the way, I am a Modder, Soundtrack Composer and now Game Developer. Well, sort of.

Windows 10 64bit - Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 8,0 GB Ram, Geforce GTX 1050ti
Find some my work onYoutube:
(Music Channel) The German Music Dude: https://www.youtube.com/user/DeutscherVolker
(Games and Mods Channel ) DK Productions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIqwvScXnJL_zNYqSsfTCqA



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Posted: 9th Nov 2017 09:03 Edited at: 9th Nov 2017 09:04
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It's actually quite an obvious thing really, but it's so obvious you could spend hours staring at it and not see it.

Everything needs a shader to render properly, if you don't allocate a shader then there's a high chance it will choose default values for rendering, which means a lot of the shader effects will be missing.

It's something you don't really look for because you expect any half decent GameGuru modeller/artist to have added to the FPE automatically, so you don't expect it.

I suppose it's like searching for a specific tree in a forest, it's there in plain view but all the other trees are distracting you.

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Posted: 9th Nov 2017 10:03
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Quote: "And I thought I made a ground breaking discovery haha "


You have for me,thanks for posting.If it’s not on the forum I won’t see it .

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Posted: 9th Nov 2017 10:26
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Quote: "You have for me,thanks for posting."


Glad I was able to help
You know you watched too many of Lee's Live Brodcasts when you're at work and have an earwig from his twitch intro music....

By the way, I am a Modder, Soundtrack Composer and now Game Developer. Well, sort of.

Windows 10 64bit - Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 8,0 GB Ram, Geforce GTX 1050ti
Find some my work onYoutube:
(Music Channel) The German Music Dude: https://www.youtube.com/user/DeutscherVolker
(Games and Mods Channel ) DK Productions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIqwvScXnJL_zNYqSsfTCqA



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Posted: 9th Nov 2017 10:35
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I think I told you this some time ago When we where checking that wall you used. But no matter! Now we have a tutorial for other users

These models are directly copied from FPSC, where it wasn't uncommon for static objects not to use a shader. They do however need one to render properly with the lightmapper. Actually, these models will still don't look quite right because they lack a proper normal and specular map.



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Posted: 9th Nov 2017 11:25 Edited at: 9th Nov 2017 11:28
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Can't remember...

But doesnt matter anyway. Some will find this helpful so its okay.
You know you watched too many of Lee's Live Brodcasts when you're at work and have an earwig from his twitch intro music....

By the way, I am a Modder, Soundtrack Composer and now Game Developer. Well, sort of.

Windows 10 64bit - Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 8,0 GB Ram, Geforce GTX 1050ti
Find some my work onYoutube:
(Music Channel) The German Music Dude: https://www.youtube.com/user/DeutscherVolker
(Games and Mods Channel ) DK Productions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIqwvScXnJL_zNYqSsfTCqA



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Posted: 9th Nov 2017 19:40
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Actually I think you told me, Wolf LOL

And granada is a case in point. A lot of people are strictly forum-ites.
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