I saw this tutorial and one spawnflag in this tutorial confused me O.o

[Langerd]

http://www.nab622.com/tutorials/modeling_in_radiant.html

In the end it is an ase model but there is a spawnflag in misc_model that is called lighted.

What does it mean ? It is said that it add extra realism but how ? Any ideas?

 

[Pande]

NAB was a Noob. He meant spawnflags 4 or 6, 'lighted' only appears if you have DarthArth's (I believe correct me if I'm wrong) editor definition files. All it means is that the model receives lightmapping instead of vertex light. Spawnflags 4 does that and leaves the model nonsolid. Spawnflags 6 combines auto-solid and lighting.

[Langerd]

Thanks for Answer.
Is this option good? O.o

 

[Didz]

Yes, lightmaps have much better quality than vertex lighting.

 

Lightmaps are like custom textures detailing the lighting values for a surface. Meanwhile vertex lights only give lighting values to the vertices of a surface (corners), and these are blended over the surface to give a very rough approximation.

 

Try playing on different maps with r_vertexLight 1 (then doing vid_restart) and you'll see just how low quality it can be.

[Langerd]

It works only with Ase. ? Or with Md3 models to?

[Pande]

Both. Anything baked into the map

[Langerd]

Ok many thanks for answers