#these are my settings:
foggy hollow
I don't really know what your scene looks like or what kind of lighting you're after
Baked lightmapping is a specific kind of optimization that moves lighting calculations from runtime to stored textures
And gives you bounce lighting and shadowing in the process
It can also look very weird if anything's wrong with your scene
shy olive
Ah, I see. I mean it's not really a big deal. I'm basically winging the lighting. I'm in college, on a team for this semester's project, I'm the programmer, and the artists don't really know how to use unity.... so there's many overlapping UVs and inverted normals and such, so honestly as long as it looks somewhat ok I'm fine with it.
foggy hollow
Baked lighting in general is a different beast
I think it may take a couple of days to get nice lighting with realtime lights
But a couple of weeks to get nice lighting with baked lights after sorting through the issues
shy olive
oh yea I'm aware. I'm mostly just annoyed that the Game Design program didn't even mention to artists that they should have a second UV map without overlapping UVs for baked lighting
foggy hollow
Unity can and in most cases should generate those for you
From mesh import settings
But not all meshes are suitable for lightmapping due to awkward size or shape, or you run into a different set of problems
shy olive
well unity seems to be just complaing to me about it instead of doing something about it lol
foggy hollow
Because UV overlap has multiple causes, only one of which is the lack of automatically generated lightmap UVs
This has information on likely all the issues you face
And it's not uncommon to run into over half of these on the first try
shy olive
yea I've read through parts of that, thank you. It does seem that generate lightmap UVs have not been turned on in the import settings even though I've told people to turn it on multiple times :( haha
well, thank you for the help!
foggy hollow
Good luck
Baked GI is fun, but does require a time reservation for ironing out the issues
Realtime GI is ...weird
shy olive
also I think realtime is such a wrong name for it
Yea, if this was a solo project I'd be having fun with it. Unfortunately I need to rely on artists who don't exactly know what I'm doing so it can be a pain at times 😠I only just got introduced to the world of baked when I got hired at a place, so my next project will definitile play around with it 🫡