Are Enlighten Problems Driven by Continuous Baking Feature?

It sounds like many of us are wrestling with Enlighten getting stuck in various ways while trying to bake our scenes. It has seemed slightly better or worse with each beta, but as of beta 21 things have become worse than ever. I was unable to bake scenes that were successfully baking earlier in the beta 5 series - even smaller scenes without terrains.

Is this so hard to make stable because of the multi-threaded nature of the problem with respect to Continuous Baking?

Could we remove this feature in exchange for a more stable Enlighten experience sooner? And then maybe revisit this feature in 5.1? I'm sure many or most of us in the community would be very happy to trade working bakes in exchange for not having the continuous baking mode.

Just 2 cents...

 

I usually use continous to tweak the lighting in my scene in real time... then I do my final bakes when I like what I see. I wouldn't call it wrestling with it... then it defeats the purpose of realtime lightmapping.

 

Personally I can't stand continuous mode. Why would I want it to be baking the entire time I'm placing elements, knowing that it's just gonna have to do it all over again when I'm finished?

 

This.....
even when you just open an empty scene it's start baking, add an object it bake again. Honestly....that really annoying, i prefer it to be off.

 

Well the real question isn't about the pro's and con's of continuous mode as a feature, but rather: would setting it aside for now give us a more stable Enlighten sooner? If so, I'm a strong advocate!

 

I actually like continuous baking if you set the real-time baking res to something like 2, and you can still work and add elements to your scene. It takes getting used to, especially if you use Enlighten extensively.

 

It seems to keep up rapidly if you start baking from the start of the scene, but will have side effects if you try to turn it on while halfway through making a complex scene.

I also notice that some objects can be too large to be properly handled and it causes the system to hang at Clustering. If it does 'finish' due to some glitch then it fails to grab the files correctly and breaks anyway.

So my advice is if you plan to use it, try to enable it earlier than later and make sure your prefabs are flagged static correctly.