Here's something small I've achieved with Ventilator's plugin:



Click this link
Now click this link
Then save the images to your pc, or somehow figure out a way to instantly transition between them and you can see just how amazing mesh lightmapping is and why I love this plugin so much and how cool Ventilator is for making it! If you use bsp it's going to eat your performance and you don't have the flexibility and ease of creativity with meshes

Thanks to loopix trees in these shots. If you're interested you may find more info here:
Ventilator's 2nd uv set and supertrace plugin

Another example:
Here wihtout lightmap
With lightmap

oh my gosh!

Marvellous! What did you use to render the lightmaps?

Ooooooh...aaaaahhhhhh...WOW!
Simply superb

WOOOOOOW............that's nice. O_O


So is the whole level just one model? O_O
(exported whole level -> imported in gile[s] -> apply lightmapping -> export from gile[s] -> import in MED as one object) am i right?

Oh ok.... Thanks for the info

The trees might use some work, since the wood texture is... blurry? Otherwise that's just great. Add sharpening and bloom and you get pretty nice outcome