UE3 - UT3 Trouble with lighting on static mesh

[DerickVonD]

This is my street light i created in max v7 for UT3,
also i made a secondary uv layer to along with it cause
vertex lighting sucks, but the results i got when i built
light sucks even worse, you can see every seem pretty much
i spent a good 4 hours to patch everything together with
minimal stretching and still looks like crap, i have no
idea why its not turning out right. Any support or tips
on how to fix this would be great


here are some pics
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/street_light1.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/street_light2.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/street_light3.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/street_light4.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/street_light5.jpg

 

[Anuxinamoon]

Did you flatten map (auto unwrap) the 2nd UV? Because if its overlapping it will end up with some strange effects.

 

[DerickVonD]

Did you flatten map (auto unwrap) the 2nd UV? Because if its overlapping it will end up with some strange effects.

Yes and there is no overlapping

 

[Kantham]

This is with lightmaps correct?
How it looks like when you use subdivision?

This may help as well.

 

[DerickVonD]

This is with lightmaps correct?
How it looks like when you use subdivision?

This may help as well.

yes

 

[[SAS]Solid Snake]

Are the normal maps seamless, or have they been cut up?

 

[DerickVonD]

Are the normal maps seamless, or have they been cut up?

the normal maps are seemless

 

[[SAS]Solid Snake]

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/street_light2.jpg

I'm looking at this image here and even the diffuse doesn't look like it is using seamless UV coordinates. Please post a picture of the UV mapping coordinates you are using for the normal map.

 

[DerickVonD]

I'm looking at this image here and even the diffuse doesn't look like it is using seamless UV coordinates. Please post a picture of the UV mapping coordinates you are using for the normal map.

The defuse channel "[channel 1] in Max" was not properly aligned, the secondary mapping layout "[channel 2]" in Max
has a completely different set of cords that are all seamlessly stitched, also the bmps both the defuse and normal
map are also completely seamless.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/str1.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/str2.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/str3.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/BrainStorm_wow/Help/str3.jpg

 

[Dogger]

To me this looks like a normal problem (smoothing groups), my only other explanation would be you have stitched your UV's up backwards in some areas.

 

[[SAS]Solid Snake]

Hmm yes, it could be smoothing groups problem.