That's because mapmodels have no lightmapped rendering (on Sauerbraten). However, Tesseract does support a better kind of rendering. Mapmodels aren't meant as walls or ceilings by the way.

we want raytraced lightmaps for models too! yooo!!!
I'll make a map about it, open a node and start a whatthefuPAD too in order to let all ppl know how I won't do it myself

I think you should try using Tesseract, though it may need some more time to be developed.

Skiingpenguin: what i mean by cartoony style is the irregular shape of the architecture, I can pull that off using blender but not with the level editor, like houses in fable series. Small structure only maybe
Suicizer:maybe you had point there and thanks

The cube engine doesnt handle models very well (compared to other engines [quake, source, unreal], Tesseract does the best job with realtime shadows and lighting on objects. But because cube was made more to me a marching cube based editor, it doesn't really use, or handle rendering, or editing, model well. If you looking to make a serious map i would suggest using another engine, (mainly one that would allow you to group models, and instance them throughout your map.

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