editor freezes often when undoing (995745)

Hey @laurentlavigne

This is a known issue because lightmapping backends rely on CPU and it has been always like that. So when you move your camera in scene view or when you undo stuff, it is expected that editor interaction will be slow, and it will especially be more pronounced when you have a large project with many instances in your scene. Going forward, we're working on GPU Lightmapper. When that feature is introduced, all the lightmapping process will be done in GPU so CPU will be free.

Thanks

 

We can check it on our end if you've a reproducible project. As you know, you can share it through BugReporter and post case ID here, I can test it on my machine.

Last time I tested, unlike lightmapping backends in Unity, OctaneRenderer was purely rendering the results on their PBR Viewport and it wasn't generating lightmaps. I now saw that they recently released live lightmap baking feature here:

https://unity.otoy.com/guides/live-lightmap-baking-guide-new/

But reading through comments, I can still see that they're not outputing the converged lightmaps in project folder and instead, they're storing them in their external tool. You can render the lightmaps for each object one by one, then you need to assign the rendered texture to GameObject. Thus, at this point it won't still be a fair comparison unless OctaneRenderer works like lightmapper backends in Unity. We're waiting for that functionality in order to make a fair comparison.

On a side note, I'd like to remind that Octane will only work with Nvidia graphics card and on Windows. Unity's GPU accelerated Progressive Lightmapper is targeting Mac and Linux in addition to Windows, and will work across AMD and Nvidia graphics hardware (ideally on Intel GPU too, but no promises for that yet).

Thanks