Hi there,
I have a scene with lots of lights. My fps will hugely decrease when all of them are in the viewing range. I was wondering if there would be a way to solve this, games like Doom III had scenes like this. I don't know maybe ID Tech 4 uses Stencil shadowing but the problems is I don't need that much accuracy for my shadows though I had the same amount of fps when I changed the shadow mode to stencil. Decreasing the shadow map size didn't affect my fps either.
Can you show me a way to render such scenes efficiently ? ( all the settings I should set )
Scenes like a park in the night with too many lamps ( short range ) and without any occlusion.

Thanks in advance

use shadows only for key lights (not all of them)
or
bake your shadows to lightmaps/textures

Thank you for your quick response.
If I use the lightmap can I prevent those objects with lightmap from casting shadow only from static lights ?
and If I use lightmap, if a dynamic object, say the player, goes into a shadow, will it be affected by that, I mean will it look darker ?

Sry for that kind offtopic question, how can you bake lightmaps in esenthel?

you must do it in external program

so for example, when a do a lightmap in 3ds max i can put it in esenthel?
two questions, first where do i have to put the resulting map and second
how do i get baked lightmaps for the terrain, i only can bake the lightmaps for single objects?
thx

You add the baked lightmap in photoshop as a multiply layer.

There is a lightmap slot when creating materials. I assume that's what it's for, though I've never used it.

for the terrain you cant add lightmaps, so I recommend just disabling shadows for most lights.