Lighting discrepancies when combining static and movable meshes

[darthviper107]

@motorsep;586681

That’s a million dollars question - how could ancient lightmaps baker generate better static lighting than 2016 engine?! (perhaps not better, but more suited for static + dynamic environments)

I’ve worked plenty with Quake 3 lighting system (my game on Steam uses q3bsp maps and q3map2 lightmaps baker app for Quake 3) and I wouldn’t be posting about this if I didn’t know what I was talking about.

I did some Jedi Outcast/Academy modding which uses Quake 3 as well and I don’t remember it having all that great of lighting. I’d be surprised to see an actual case where Quake 3 is able to do a dynamic mesh surrounded by static lighting that has the same coloring.