I’ve spent a lot of hours into making a Forge map on Halo 5, based on the Combat Evolved mission, Truth and Reconciliation, where you’re inside the Covenant ship and it’s in a hangar bay. I’ve got the basic structure completed and it’s mostly just waiting on extra details and stuff.
The problem I’m having is that the lighting on the pieces is how they naturally appear, not taking into account any shadows or lighting fixtures. It’s near enough ruining the feel of the map as a dark interior of a ship, with dimly lit corridors.
The lightmap percentage is at around 40% and there are around 800 objects on the map. It’s certainly not the light source from the map because that is blocked off and it’s on the space map (Parallax).
If anyone who is an expert on Forge can help out it would be greatly appreciated because I’m out of ideas as to how to fix this.
I’m not an expert on Forge myself, but have you considered tinkering with the individual properties of each light fixture? Maybe there’s a brightness / intensity setting that’ll help you achieve the results you need.
Yeah I’ve actually gone through and changed all of the lights off, or to their minimum settings without any extras (such as spot or point), just to try and eliminate what is causing the problem. Same thing with light baking…
I am not quite sure I understand the problem, could you post a link to your map and toggle it visible? I’m not sure how new you are to Forge, but did you try generating your lighting by holding down on the D-pad? Lighting in forge is different from what it will be in customs to make it easier to edit.
Also, there are plenty of Forge experts over at ForgeHub. If you create a post in the Forums with some pictures and a link I bet you’ll get the feedback you are looking for.
It should already be in my File Browser, it’s named Covenant Canvas Grape (It’ll be changed when it’s completed).
Yeah I’ve tried generating lighting by holding down on the D-Pad but nothing’s changed unfortunately. That’s a good idea, I’ve not tried going in via customs and seeing if it all looks fine there.
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> It should already be in my File Browser, it’s named Covenant Canvas Grape (It’ll be changed when it’s completed).
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> Yeah I’ve tried generating lighting by holding down on the D-Pad but nothing’s changed unfortunately. That’s a good idea, I’ve not tried going in via customs and seeing if it all looks fine there.
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> Thanks for the help there
No problem! The file is currently hidden, it does that on default after you forged on it. Make sure to go into your Files in the game and toggle the visibility to on.
