Official Progressive CPU Lightmapper

Nice updates ! @Jesper

 

How to fix this........??

 

Didi you generated lightmap uv for sponza model ?
If not, select it from Project files and check Generate Lightmap UV checkbox from inspector and press apply.

 

yes i was did it but that problem does not solve

 

In my test it works fine
I think your problem is still Lightmap UV

 

hey aliyeredon...i watched your all videos and downloaded all....
i will try again to do that

 

hmm ok thanks jesper i will try again

 

i did this using unity 5.5

 

thanks guys.....finally its worked.....!!!

 

Has anyone had luck using this for transmissive surfaces such as rice paper? I am trying to light my sanctuary level which only has a single directional light that is outside, but the room is enclosed and I have these screens for the light to filter through... and the light isn't filtering it...

 

I'm am wondering what I can do to improve light mapping performance.

I have an i7-5280 processor and 8 GB of Ram. Will going up to 16 GB help? My scene gives ETA of 10 hours!

 

OK, great. I'm going to bump my memory up to 24 GB or 32 GB.

FYI, the Unity page doesn't show any hardware requirements for memory...I'm sure it depends on what you are developing (PC, mobile, etc) and the type of game you are making. Some kind of guideline would be good.

https://unity3d.com/unity/system-requirements

 

I am using Alloy so I would have to ask these guys about that...

 

After seeing the performance of my brothers laptop bake light 4x faster than my desktop (my desktop has a much better CPU)....I went out and bumped up the memory for my computer to 24 GB.

I am working on moderate levels so this helped me with that as well...

 

My test with 16 and 32 RAM:

16GB RAM : 26 min
32GB : 29 min

Same scene, same system. 4790K cpu

Baked in resolution 14.

If you want to bake with high resolution , you need more RAM

 

The progressive lightmapper is great. Fixes up a lot of problems I was having with enlighten. But I'm getting a lot of errors in the console.

One of the error's I get when doing a bake with the new progressive mapper:

[PathTracer] AddInstanceProperties job with hash: 6e630b99635e8c5d28b765207d79a077 failed with exit code 5.

I get over 1000 of these and even when the mapper has finished baking I still get them.

Also, if I reload the current scene (i.e pressing 'restart level' in my game) the lightmap disappears and the whole scene is black apart from my sprites.

And one other problem I am experiencing is an error that occurs when I'm turning on and off a spriterenderer:

Dynamic batching: index buffer destination is NULL (first IB byte 0 count 0 first vertex 0 offset 0)
Dynamic batching: index buffer source is NULL (first IB byte 0 count 0 first vertex 0 offset 0)

I can't share the project as it is over 5GB but thought I should bring these errors to the attention of the team. I've rolled back to 5.5 and am wrestling with enlighten again in the mean time. Can't wait until the progressive mapper is reliable enough to use in production.

My details:
- macOS Sierra 10.12.4
- 3.2ghz i5
- 8GB DDR3
- Nvidia GT 755m 1024mb
- Using the latest unity version: 5.6.0f3
- Target platform iOS (baked GI no realtime)

 

I there guide that is available for using the progressive lightmapper? There are certain objects within my scene that stay black no matter what options I choose.

 

The gameobject is marked lightmap static. I've uploaded a couple of screenshots

I also changed the Light parameter to change the "Backface Tolerance " to 0.

Note: I've done several full bakes.

 

Hi,
Lightmapper makes really nice results.
I have problem with indirect intensity though.
When I set it up to higher than 1 ( for example 5) and bake, it looks fine, but after I close editor and open and load scene again, visually its like it was set up to 1 ( even though its still 5 ).

with englighten it works just fine.

Maybe problem is on my side?

Forgot to mention its working ok on static, but problem is with dynamic objects.

 

Are all of the cores used for rendering?

I have a dual 6 core cpu (12 total cores) and 96gb ram. Is there an automatic setting that this is all utilised?

thanks

 

It should use them all. Look at cpu usage while it's running.

 

Is the packing going to be improved/tweaked in general?

AFAIK, it's still bounding box based, and I don't think there's still any reason for it to be like that (it was introduced to facilitate bake selected). It also seems to be unable to rotate the uvs (by 90 degrees) to pack them better. I'm guessing because of the directional mode, but not doing it for non-directional as well is a bit weird. In short, the packing in Unity 3.5 used to be much better sadly :/

 

Just for reference:

 

Hi there! Let me say that the new Progressive lightmapper is great!
I am having a weird issue though:

Some of my lights in the scene won't bake (as if they were switched off). If I then move the problematic lights just slightly and rebake, then they wake up but some other random lights switch off instead. Is that a known issue? Or maybe I am missing something with my set-up? Thanks!

 

Will this also fix the problem for inverted objects? Or is that considered a separate bug?

 

Will final gather be available as an option sometime? Because my scenes seem to be having a lot of noise for both enlighten and progressive. Enabling final gather in enlighten removes it pretty much completely.

 

You can use the filtering to get rid of the noise. The problem, currently, is that the filtering is kinda basic and it gets rid of details as well all noise. They're planning to introduce smarter filtering options in the near future though.

 

having many issues with "progressive"
totally not helpful:

 

thank you @Jesper-Mortensen
that's good news. but when I said "not helpful" I meant that it doesn't show which mesh had issue.
I have several hundreds of meshes in scene and to go through all of them checking which one keeps quads is a time sink

 

@Jesper-Mortensen just wanted to say you are doing god's work on this thread. Thanks a lot!

 

Nice work, eagerly awaiting release! We use tons of inverted objects in our environment to manage less meshes, so it would be good to get progressive lightmapper working with them.

 

Is this possible to get these type of the indirect shadows?

Rove3D (CG path tracer):

Progressive Lightmapper (baked with 10.000 sample counts):

 

In 2017.1, mesh renderers have a flag under 'UV charting control' to 'ignore normals'. Can I get any additional information on this?

 

I've always wondered by Enlighten never bakes out these types of shadows - I assumed it was a texel resolution or irradiance quality issue. Lightmass handles this type of shadowing pretty routinely.

Has anyone done any comparison tests with the advanced filtering settings?