Mixed Mode Fixes and Lighting window preview 2: Mix Harder.

Thanks for the new build, is it based on 5.4.0f3 or 5.4.1?

 

Hello,

Is there any way to build a Windows Standalone Executable using this experimental build?

 

I wonder too. Our development process depends heavily on building asset bundles and executables. Not being able to do these means we can only see static lighting on our maps but we are unable to experiment further in game.

 

Hey, any update on the progressive path tracing lightmapper build? It was to be released "very soon" about a month ago, just wondering what's the status currently.

 

Oh we would like to try, it. We are working on VR so hi quality lightmap is a must. Should i go to PM?

 

Awesome, looking forward to preview 3: Mix with a vengeance

 

finally! great work!
I noticed though that mixed light doesnt work with pointLight

 

Okay, so I managed to find out the problem.

My scene has a lot of lights and some of them do cast shadows, while others don't.
Could it be limited to a number of lights per scene? if so, how can I make it so the lights around the character will cast shadows?

 

Okay, for now or forever?

And if forever, is there a way for me to control which lights cast shadows and which don't?

 

You can switch lights to fully baked so that they don't cast shadows.

Read the pdf, it's pretty useful.

 

I meant to ask if there is a way to control which mixed lights cast shadows to toggle them around my character on
run-time?

 

All of them (or whatever you have in your quality settings I guess), as long as more than 4 don't overlap in the same area.

 

So, really nothing on using this experimental build to make a windows exe? It would make my life much better, as I need to do some serious out-of-editor profiling.

 

Forgot to reply, but I can wait for the public beta thanks.

 

I'd be ecstatic to get in on this; I'm currently looking at holding off shipping a game with 30+ baked levels, due to the sheer amount of iterative time taking to get it right, so pretty, pretty please stick me on that!

 

can you add support for lightmaps like the unreal distance field shadows
https://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DistanceFieldShadows.html
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf

 

This is a good read... a lot of my levels wholly rely on GI to look as natural as possible...

 

Will the next builds also solve the nagging problem of losing lightmap information in prefabs? I'm working on my levels and a lot of my lightmaps (set to precomputed GI because the baked maps look horrible) are gone completely... I had to set my reflection probes to custom and bake them that way...

Would be nice to fix this problem once and for all.

 

I know you guys hate giving dates, but any chance the mixed lighting improvements are coming in 5.5? we're really struggling with enlighten this past year and I've been staving off talk of "making the switch" at my studio. I demoed the improvements in the test build and people here seemed generally happy with it, but there's the question of when we'll be able to use it in production

 

Specifically, what's most concerning is that mixed mode lighting isn't even on the roadmap:
https://unity3d.com/unity/roadmap

 

Seconded. The combination of the Progressive Lightmap Baking and the Mixed Mode lighting is pretty much vital to release a number of titles we've got going.

 

I am using UFE to make a fighting game and the levels have to be done as a prefab... when I hit play in the editor in a blank scene, the level will launch but I lose all of the GI information... and honestly, it is nagging... I am not on the beta btw... this happens in Unity 5.4 and I hope this gets fixed.

 

Any chance I could have access to the progressive lightmapping preview as well? I am currently working on an approximated GI screen space method and I need to do comparisons with a 1 bounce solution.

 

Hi, I just want to say thank you, the new mixed lighting is really nice! Especially the distance shadow map mode makes me happy. I am looking forward to the progressive lightmapper as well!
Oh and also I was wondering in the first thread about the new mixed mode there was a link to an explanatory video, but that seems to be gone. Could you provide a working link or upload it again?

 

What does that mean? It won't be integrated into a main release until some unknown time in the future? So...we can't plan on using it for multi-platform releases in the near or mid-future? So, we should pretend it still doesn't exist at all, for current projects?

 

yup. so the only real solution in Unity 5 is still 100% dynamic or 100% baked.

 

Is there going to be some sort of support for baking in non static objects? I have a game with a very large space ship and the interior is all static(fixed) relative to the ship. It make sense to bake the lighting in the ships (precomputed GI, fully baked, etc..)

I dont know if this is the right place to ask but it would be nice to be able to override the static tick mark somehow.

 

You can check the "Lightmap static" option without the others.

 

When is the next preview scheduled for?

 

Downloading the build right now. However not having any information about when you plan to integrate it in Unity makes it hard to use in production (and we desperately need mixed lighting)

 

None of the download links seem to be working for me now (ownCloud is saying 'file not found'). Any chance we could get them re-uploaded?

 

Maybe there's new version coming up

 

Indeed, very much this. The incremental lighting bake preview is *absolutely incredible*, but I can't imagine anything but the lowest spec mobile games having purely baked lighting these days.

Even if the answer is 'not for another 6 months', an indication would be extremely useful. Pretty please?

 

I don't like this. Is there a way to get the progressive lightmapper separately before 5.6? Enlighten is killing me.

 

Hey guys,
Have been following the first preview and second preview of this new Mixed Mode and I want to know if it somehow suits our pseudo-dynamic workflow. Here's what we got:
1 - We have a custom forward renderer that does up to 20 lights in one pass, with 4 of them casting a blend of dynamic and pre-baked shadows (I'll explain a bit about it down below).
2 - Every scenes in our project consist of mostly indoor lighting and we want to avoid lightmap baking at all cost.
3 - Obviously, DistantShadows doesn't work for us as we need to see dynamic shadows from characters on distant lights every time.
We don't really need static shadows on dynamic characters (even if that is possible with the new mixed mode) but what we really need is to use dynamic lighting with static baked shadows + dynamic shadows casted by dynamic geometry. Soft of pre-baked light depthmaps for static geometry (decode it onto shadows on static geometry and multiply that by the decoded dynamic shadows). Dynamic characters will directly use the dynamic depthmaps for self-shadowing.
Basically, this is what we do on our custom renderer but in a rigid limited way and artists are screaming in blood and pain right now.
Again, we don't want static light from lightmaps, we want dynamic lights with static shadows from static geometry and dynamic shadows from dynamic geometry. Is this something we can achieve with the new Mixed Mode? If so, then hell yeah you guys rocks! If not, then you guys rocks either way!
[EDIT] Upon browsing the provided documents and threads, looks like Shadowmaks will somehow solve our needs. Only thing left to know is how long does it takes to bake a shadowmasked scene only vs a full lightmapped & shadowed scene? Approximately how fast in % is one vs the other?

About the Subtractive mode. Is there a way to override the dominant light position and projection, so we can have kinda UE3 interpolated-like shadows for dynamic objects? Back in the days, that's how UE3 was doing shadows on every AAA game that was shipped with and it worked really well. You could have 20 lights in a scene, only the most dominant of every light type will cast shadows and the engine handled the interpolation between lights positions itself.

 

Hey guys,
I've been checking out the preview build and it looks impressive, congrats!
I've got one concern though, my games use a Built-in shader modification for Deferred to get cel shading. I also modify the LamberTerm equation in UnityStandardBRDF.cginc. If I load my custom built-in shader in GraphicSettings all the mixed mode goodness breaks. Can you share your built-in shaders .zip so that I can try adapting my shaders to it? On an unrelated note.. any news about support for PS4 (even as a preview build)?.

Cheers!

 

You should be able to access those files inside "Editor/Data/CGIncludes" on the Mixed Lights Preview Build folder.

 

I understand completely. The new lighting window is self-explanatory and the distance shadowmask would be the perfect solution for our games (lightmap for everything, but realtime shadows for nearby objects/characters).

Will this new pipeline work with progressive lightmaps in the future?