How to export/save baked lightmap? (Unity 2017)

Is it possible to export/save lightmap for later use? And how?

I want to bake lights with very high quality which takes long time and save it somewhere, so i can continue editing/tweaking stuff to improve my scene with low-quality, then i can 'recall' higher quality one whenever i wish (when i decided not to change anything).
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Note: I am aware if i decided to change objects or lights, i need to rebake.
Note 2: I use Progressive Lightmapper and Unity 2017.1.0f3

 

I'm not using 2017 yet, but if this hasn't changed :

Lightmaps are saved in your project/scene/ folder as .exr
So you can just copy them from there.

 

There is only Reflection Probes as .exr files. Here is how my scene folder looks:

Unity Folder:


Windows Folder:

 

Weird.
Search for "Lightmap-0_comp_light.exr" in your assets. Maybe it's somewhere else?

 

You can commit all project folder via GIT and then revert any changes, this is the most reliable way. You can see all files, that was changed and undo any of them.

I use this for the same purposes

 

@sylon - There is no other .exr files other than reflection probes in any of the folders. Something changed probably that you didn't notice

@TheShock - This sounds a bit time consuming and complicated. I'm after something more practical so that i can use with ease.

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I have came across to this question. There @Firedan1176 says:

I don't know if this is the current solution since everything changes so fast. But i have no idea what kind of script i'm looking for either anyways. Do you have any idea?

 

Do you have "Auto Generated" checked in your lighting window?
If so, i think your data is stored in your cache.
If you uncheck it and generate a new build, perhaps your lightmaps will show up in your assets.

Hope it helps

 

Thank you @sylon and @kemalakay , yes 'Auto Generate' was on and i unchecked it, then clicked 'Generate Lighting' to build. So now i can see lightmap .png and .exr files in my folder.


Thereby i struggle with second part of my issue, 'recalling' lighting maps. How can i do that?
I enable 'Auto Generate' and notice my lightmaps stilll stays on folder as built which is cool. But i don't how to retrieve them without calculating the lightmaps again.

 

That's exactly what i was looking for, thank you very much @kemalakay

Here is a quick demo of 3 different lightmaps switching in play mode:

 

Mate, how you put this circle with the plant of the building here? Thanks.

 

It's called "minimap". I don't remember exactly how i did and i can't access project right now but i combined ideas from couple of tutorials to achieve the result.
Check this for example: Implementing a Minimap in Unity
Also try searching "making minimap in Unity" on Google, plenty of tutorials come up.

 

Hi,

Is it working on Unity 2017 versions? I tried it however it is not baking the lights correctly or maybe I am doing something wrong?

 

Yes, it works in Unity 2017.1.0f3 as i'm using it. Did you read and followed the steps in github?

 

Yes I followed but the problem is with baking. I have day and night views for a scene. So I removed day/night lights from the scene and created two scenes respectively. Dragged scenes to the Level Light Map Data gameobject-script and baked/stored them one by one. After baking, it switches the lightmaps however it does not give the same result as I see when the lights are on at the scene..

 

Alright, now it seems I am bit closer to solution. Since I was missing the "Notes" section:

• if you want to use lights that don't have direct lighting baked, then you would need to also load the lighting scene associated with the lightmaps when operating the switch.

And guess what, they were the spotlights not being rendered. So I will have to load day/night scenes additively, so far it seems to work when I load from editor additively.