Baking Lighting

[urban patio]

I always get this error when I try to bake the light map, even when I try to lower settings in the light map settings. How do I fix this issue?

I have 32 gigabytes of ram and I think my settings are set pretty low for the light map

[wicked panther]

The memory here would refer to your VRAM I believe. Do you have a decent grahics card?

[worthy valve]

Create a new scene, put a baked light + static cube in it, and try to bake that

See if that throws an error

[urban patio]

I am using AMD Radeon(TM) 860M Graphics

[urban patio]

I was able to successfully create a light map for a new scene with a baked light and a static cube

[worthy valve]

it's an integrated GPU, so you will be limited on performance and memory, I bet

[urban patio]

I also tried the CPU and it still had issues.. I've been testing around, and it seems like issues arise when I mark a mesh renderer as static

[urban patio]

Are these the correct stats for a mesh renderer for when I need to bake a light map?

[worthy valve]

this means that the object is so big that it's filling up an entire lightamp

[urban patio]

How would I go about fixing that?

[worthy valve]

show your current lightmapping settings

I see that the scale is 100

This is probably causing great confusion for the lightmapper

If you export from Blender with default settings, you wind up with that 100x scale

I prefer to switch the "Apply Scalings" mode to "FBX All"

This gives you a scale of 1

That, on its own, shouldn't cause a problem

[worthy valve]

(although, if you're using "Generate Lightmap UVs" in the model import settings, you're probably getting VERY bad lightmaps right now)

the importer thinks your model is 100 times smaller than it's meant to be

it winds up with enormous amounts of padding

[worthy valve]

looks pretty sensible (20 texels/unit is moderately detailed)

the maximum size of an obejct will be 2048/20, or around 100 meters across

[urban patio]

How would I do this?

"I prefer to switch the "Apply Scalings" mode to "FBX All""

[worthy valve]

this is part of the FBX export settings in Blender

it defaults to "All Local"

[urban patio]

Which one here do I check?

Oh nevermind i found it within the picture. Sorry, lol

I have a scene with only 1 static model, which I am using as a control, and I reimported it with "Apply Scalings" mode to "FBX All", and there still seems to be an issue with the light baking

[young oasis]

If you drag the mesh to scene and don't change it at all, what does it look like in Contributors/Receivers debug draw mode

That should visualize how dense the lightmap texture will be