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Enlighten and dynamic lights

Discussion in 'Unity 5 Pre-order Beta' started by Elecman, Jan 21, 2015.

  1. Elecman

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    I thought enlighten supports dynamic lights, but if I rotate a directional light (sun) it starts baking again. What is the definition of a dynamic light?
     
    Elecman, Jan 21, 2015
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  2. Reanimate_L

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    Set the baking settings in the Directional light as realtime.
     
    Reanimate_L, Jan 21, 2015
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  3. shkar-noori

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    It still requires a pre-compute stage.
     
    shkar-noori, Jan 21, 2015
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  4. adventurefan

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    Did you try putting a rotate script on the sun. Should work fine in play mode.
     
    adventurefan, Jan 21, 2015
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  5. Elecman

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    Tried that. Didn't work.

    Precompute once, sure. But after that, you should be able to rotate the light without requiring any additional pre-computation, right?

    Didn't try this, but assuming that it works, then why does it need to pre-compute something in the editor but not at runtime?

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    Is this a bug or a feature?
     
    Elecman, Jan 22, 2015
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  6. AcidArrow

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    Are you sure it's not just baking the cubemaps?
     
    AcidArrow, Jan 22, 2015
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  7. Elecman

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    Not sure. How can I check?
     
    Elecman, Jan 23, 2015
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  8. Joachim_Ante

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    It is expected that it will recompute the cubemaps. Whenever the input lighting changes. Precompute should not start again.

    If you have baked lightmaps, then the the lightmaps will also be recomputed when you change the lights or sky.
     
    Joachim_Ante, Feb 13, 2015
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  9. Elecman

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    Ok, thanks for clearing that up.
     
    Elecman, Feb 14, 2015
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