Resolved No shadows appearing with Baked Lighting

Hi there. I've been trying to improve my game's speed by creating a baked lightmap. However, I keep running into the issue that no matter how much settings I adjust, my level is always a constant no-shadow scene.



This is how it currently looks, as you can see, no shadows anywhere. However, If I flip the debug camera to Baked Lightmap


All the shadows are baked in properly. I can't figure out why the baked lightmap has the shadows properly rendered while the main scene isn't.

Light settings:


Light Baking Settings:





My version is 2019.4.17f. All my tree models have a custom Lightmap UV.

 

All the objects are using standard shading, and the inspector of one of our trees is:



The project is too large and composed of too many scripts to share just the scene in question immediately. The repo we are using is currently private.

 

All the objects that should have a lightmap has the keyword, and it all appears to be fed in properly? No material is using GPU Instancing either.

In the Frame Debugger: One of the trees


And one of the tiles

 

To whoever it was that suggested changing the Baked Shadow Angle, thanks for letting me know about that detail, and while baking it with a value of 0.5 gave me a better Baked Lightmap view illumination:



It unfortunately didn't change anything in the actual shaded view. Still no shadows display in Shaded view:



Edit: I also just built and tested the project, just to see if it might be a editor issue. There is no shadows there either.

 

Hi yeah, it was me, I deleted the post because I misinterpreted what the actual problem was.

Now that I have read the problem: Can you try removing that metallic map and making sure that metallic is set to 0 and see if that changes anything?

 

Bingo! The instant I removed the metallic map from the objects, did the shadows finally get rendered!



Just for future reference, do you know why the metallic map caused that? I appreciate the help ahah. Now that it actually displays properly, my team can actually get some good lighting!

 

That wasn't really a metallic map, not sure why it was plugged in the metallic slot, but more generally:

Metallic materials only show reflections and don't really show diffuse lighting all that much (lightmaps in your case), so having set your materials as highly metallic (by plugging in the wrong map) there was no diffuse lighting / lightmaps shown.

 

Ah okay, that makes sense. Thank you so much for the help, and the lesson ahahah. Appreciate it.