I am using only emissives those lights

[mint mason]

You can uncheck the "contribute global illumination" flag

[flint swift]

Thank you

[mint mason]

I still recommend you practice baking a bit in a simple test scene

There's a lot of stuff to trip over ^^

Easier to figure out how to avoid problems when there's less variables

Using modular geometry for levels and emissive materials for illuminations are two things that require extra steps and care to get right

And there's plenty of problems that can show up even when using simple point lights and uncomplicated meshes

[round dragon]

Moving in here @flint swift

[mint mason]

earlier I misread the original post and meant this to remove the emissive lamps from the bake, so that the point lights would be included in their stead

[round dragon]

I see. He just got confused

But yeah unless you know what your doing, using only emissives for enviorment lighting is generally a bad idea

(I mean yes its actually fine, but there is not as much control, but more imporrantly for emissives most of the time you need a lot of samples just to resolve them properly and that can take a long time)

[mint mason]

Yeah, those extra steps and care ^^

[flint swift]

I'll re-bake with the shadows

which lighting mode is best for interiors?

[mint mason]

The choice doesn't much depend on the scene, but rather what kind of quality-performance tradeoff you want for shadow casting lights

[flint swift]

I have no clue what the difference is between either of them

[mint mason]

You could read about them if you're curious
Basically different ways for shadow-projecting lights to work with the lightmapper

[flint swift]

from what I've read it sounds like I just want baked indirect?

[mint mason]

The choice doesn't matter if you don't have shadow casting mixed lights
Baked indirect basically excludes dynamic shadows entirely

Actually I might be misremembering that last part
Anyway It's for mixed lights specifically

[flint swift]

I set every object to static and now nothing wants to bake, it's stuck at 0%

keep in mind this is a really crappy laptop

[mint mason]

Not everything needs to be contribute lightmap static
You'll want to especially avoid small and/or high-poly meshes

[flint swift]

I just remember being told that everything that's static and doesn't move needs to be static

[mint mason]

Hang-ups like these often happen if your hardware is biting too much to chew

[mint mason]

That's not strictly speaking true
There are many types of "static", each with their own purposes and tradeoffs

Categorically there are statics for mesh batching, for light baking, for occlusion and for AI navigation

If you don't know what any of those really do, it's a good rule of thumb to make fully static anything that doesn't move

[round dragon]

in simple terms yes this is correct

in a little more technical explanation, objects that you lightmap generally are things that don't move, but are also able to be be represented with multiple lightmap texels. typically most level geometry falls into that

[flint swift]

I'm very inexperienced with anything to do with lighting, so I can only barely understand what you're trying to get across

[round dragon]

just stick to this and you'll be fine

[flint swift]

can't set anything to static unfortunately, nothing will bake on this laptop, I will need a good computer that does that

[round dragon]

weren't you just able to bake before?

[round dragon]

if your running into this restarting the editor helps

sometimes running bakes back to back can cause an issue like that