Failed to load LightingData.asset

We are running multiple projects that includes baked lighting, but once in a while Unity fails to load the LightingData.

Unknown error occurred while loading 'Assets/Scenes/Standard/LightingData.asset'.

The light can be rebaked, but it is a nuisance that we have to re-bake a lot. We have experienced this with different versions of Unity and we haven't yet found a systematic approach to reproduce it. The error happens after pulling from git.

Before I go knee-deep into investigating this issue, have anyone experienced the same and might know of a trivial fix?

 

Alright, after investigating this a bit more it appears the error is actually caused our version control, most likely LFS. We figured it out by manually moving the LightingData.asset in which case Unity could load it. I tried opening the LightingData.asset in a text editor, just to make sure the file contained actual binary data and not just a LFS pointer, but the data seems to be there. Anyone have an idea how git LFS can mess your LightingData.asset file?

 

I met this issue also with Unity2019.2.11f1

Workaround is set your .gitattributes to ensure that git see your LightingData.asset as binary file.

So it don't get messed up with autocrlf feature anymore.

 

can you elaborate more? I'm not sure what I'm suppose to do here?

 

No solution yet even with the ".asset -diff -merge* but we did find that it started to occur once light probes were brought into the scene

 

find that corrupted Lightning Data and delete it and go Windows/Rendering/Lighting Setting and you will see Generate Lighting bottom of panel

 

Hi i have the same problems. do you solved in any way? thanks in advance

 

1、open [.gitattributes] file
2、remove [*.asset filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text]
re-bake your lighting and push your change, it should work.

 

You don't need to remove *.asset filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text

If you check the difference(using WinMerge for example) between the original LightingData.asset and the same file moved through git to another PC they will have different End Of Line characters on some lines.

So the working solution is:
1. Open .gitattributes file
2. In the end of file add the following line:
LightingData.asset binary

 

Give this person a medal, this fixed my issue