Odd shading in game on dresser.

Hi hyousora!

Thanks for the advice, I just did done what you said and now I just need to test it ingame and see.

I hope it works

I see what you mean, the odd shading doesn't show up unless you move the object around. I couldn't figure out why it was happening but have you tried to do the same thing with the object you use to make it. It might just have been an issue with that object itself when you're moving it around.

I'm not 100% certain because I haven't fully investigated but from looking at your mesh the problem might be cause because your drawers are meshed seperately from the main dresser body and intersect it. If you use the same mesh for your shadow mesh then the game is trying to display the shadow from the main dresser body onto the draws because they cut through it.
A lot of your mesh faces are visible from the inside of the object as well which is not something that EA objects do.

Hey!

I went some deeper in S4S and I got a better shading but its not gone yet.
Now in game

I did go click model lod-> line meshes and click edit. New screen opens en you click phong -> line entries and click edit
a new screen opens and you see 4 lines that start with "variantid" -> click on the line ontop and go to the line material items and click edit
again a new screen opens and you look for lightmap scale you click on it and look to the line value and by (0) you type there "0" to change the curent value by me it was "4" .

I will look more into it to see what I can do for my object and then for any one who might have the same problem will I make a better explenaion with pictures.

Hi every one!

I did promis to make a small tut how I found the fix for my problem.
Ofcourse I still own my thanks for manaceman44 and hyousora for willing to help me when I didn't know how to fix this.

Now to start:

-Open your item/object in S4S.

OPEN

1. Go to WAREHOUSE
2. look for MODEL LOD (make sure its the LOD with black and white).

STEP1-2

3. Click on DATA
4. Go to the line that says MESHES
5. And click on EDIT ITEMS (a new screen will open, this is normal).

STEP3-5

6. Click on PHONG
7. Look for the line ENTRIES
8. And click on EDIT ITEMS (yes there will open a new screen).

STEP6-8

9. Click on the top line it usally says: Variantid:DEFAULT Stateid: DEFAULT.... You never will need to click the line with "Stateid: BURNT" for this.
10. Look for MATERIAL ITEMS
11. Click on EDIT ITEMS (yes there will open a new screen).

STEP9-11

12. Look for LIGHTMAPSCALE
13. Go To VALUE (0) and enter a new number, usally there will be 4.000, you will have to change that to a value that is working for you for me it was -0.5
14. Click save

STEP12-14

Now you need to change the LIGHTMAPSCALE in all your VARIANTID: SET1- MATERIALVARIANT, STATEID: DEFAULT.....
ofcourse how many times depends on how many colour variants you did made, every variant will be set as SET1, SET2,SET3,...
Just don't forget to click SAVE every time or it will not work.

You will need to do this for all your objects LODs (high, medium and low) but not the shadow LODs.

For closing all the screens that did open you simply click SAVE and when your in S4S it self you click SAVE again for saving your package.

I hope this helps any one with the same problem.

Ravens Fury