Lighting discrepancies when combining static and movable meshes

[motorsep]

@darthviper107;586668

The lighting system in Quake 3 is far less advanced compared to lightmass. It’s impossible to match lighting on a dynamic object without doing the same calculations that you do for the static object.

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.