Lightmap resolution Created 3 years ago2021-01-23 16:33:30 UTC by Overscore

Throughout the forums, I have found quite a bit about lightmap resolution. I discovered that changing the texture scale also made a higher resolution lightmap for better lighting. However, I wanted to know if it's possible to change the lightmap resolution without custom textures? I'm currently using Seedee's Tools, and I've heard of things like -chop or -texchop but I never really knew how to use it.

According to the descriptions of these settings, they affect how accurately light bouncing is calculated. They do not affect lightmap resolution. Only texture scale does.

From what I can find about the GoldSource bsp file format, it doesn't store separate texture coordinate information for lightmaps, so I think the 16:1 relationship is baked into the engine. There's nothing the compile tools can do to change that.