lighting differences on static and skelital meshes?

[tegleg]

hello

why would static and skelital meshes look different using the same material?
eres a pic, the doors (static) appear darker than the body (skelital)
they have a second uv channel for lighting.
[SHOT]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee69/teglegrecords/DDcarLighting.jpg[/SHOT]

any ideas?
thanks

[haldolium]

I don't have a proper solution here, but skeletal meshes are per default dynamic and static meshes are static. Unreal does handle lighting different for dynamic and static objects.

Maybe this can help you: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/Devel...rLighting.html

[tegleg]

still battling with this, tried all sorts and no difference, the shadow is always black on the static mesh component (door and wheels)
heres another pic


anyone have any idea how to fix this?
cheers

[Cronnix]

If the mesh is supposed to be dynamic, try /enablingdisabling light environment on it, as well as precomputed shadows. I have stumbled upon same issue but it was with an actor class using a mesh, is it same in your case?

[JessieG]

Why exactly do you have static doors attached to a rigged car body? Why not just make the doors part of the rigged model so the lighting will be evenly distributed? The lights will probably never look quite right unless you convert the doors to movers (MAYBE).

Static meshes get shadows baked onto them with lightmass, but skeletal meshes do not get lights baked into them because they're meant to move and react to dynamic light.

[taz1004]

Skeletal by default uses dynamic light channel and static uses static light channel. You can force either to use the other.

[tegleg]

sounds good taz
how do i force dynamic light channel on a static mesh?

[Tearl]

Try here (properties of your mesh)
[SHOT]http://screencast.com/t/jn7T3UYRXaD[/SHOT]

[tegleg]

no that didnt do anything

[taz1004]

Tearl's image link is broken on my end so I don't know what he suggested but under Static Mesh Actor Properties window, check off "Use Precomputed Shadows" as well as "Static" under Lighting Channels section. Then check on the "Dynamic". Basically make every option related to lighting in Static Mesh Actor Properties same as your Skeletal mesh.

[Jetfire]

Set the staticmesh component's lightenvironment to the same as your vehicle, assuming you have it as a component (you probably should). Iirc, shadow parenting should help too.

[tegleg]

the lighting settings are the same on both StaticMeshComponent and SkelitalMeshComponent

static

skelital


oh CastStatic Shadows is off on the static just to test, no difference
guess im going to have to have them all as skelital...

[Jetfire]

NOT your defprop settings, what i said was 'set the smc lightenvironment to your vehicle's main lightenvironment'
Something like
DoorComp.Mesh.SetLightEnvironment(MyOwnersLightEnv ironment);
DoorComp.Mesh.SetShadowParent(MyOwnersMesh); in postbeginplay/postinitanimtree
After that, then worry about the defprop buseprecomputedshadows = false etc- the more you poke in defprops before doing that, the further you'll take the properties fromwhere they should be in your random flailing around.
If you dont do this, even using separate skeletal meshes will lead to different lighting on the parts to the body as different pivot locations and bounds are used for each piece's lighenv calcs...

[tegleg]

yeeeeeeessss!
thank you Jetfire