Problem with Skinned Mesh Renderer

Hello, I have an object that has some animations and needs a Skinned Mesh Renderer to work correctly. This animations works fine. However when I apply a light bake over the object, nothing is happening to my object and there is no good result. I saw that skinned mesh renderers can't be baked =(

If I take exactly the same object, remove the skinned mesh renderer, and add a mesh filter and a basic mesh renderer, everything looks great when doing the lightmapping bake! However animations are not working anymore

Any ideas how can I fix this behavior to have my animations working and a good light bake?

I need my object to be baked to have good quality, and to have animations. Please help =(

 

Someone?

 

Thank you KEngelstoft. Do you have any workaround to create some shadows? Maybe a projector or something like that? I can add the general lightning of the object with blender and the texture

 

Any update on this? It's 10 months later and it's a useful feature.

 

Unity has a workaround called Light Probe Proxy Volumes.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-LightProbeProxyVolume.html
Its not designed for baking shadows but you get much better light for larger meshes / skinned meshes then with just simple light probes.

 

I know, but that's a different thing. And I can't use it on mobile. And even on dekstop it's much more expensive than simple being able to lightmap skinned meshes.

I have a few skinned meshes, that don't move around a lot (they just play an idle animation) and in Unity 4 I used to be able to bake them as the rest of the scene and have them look great. Now I can't.

 

Yeah, I wish to see that feature come back soon as well. It's really useful for my game. :~~~

 

@KEngelstoft, any new progress for this feature?

 

Hi @KEngelstoft , is there an ETA on this? It's been 3 years. :/

 

Are there any alternatives on how to have an object using Skinned Mesh Renderer in a light mapped scene? Like excluding a few objects from baking so they don't turn black after baking.