Unity 5: Bake different objects in a scene with two different light settings

Hi,

I wondered if it's possible to bake two sets of assets inside a scene with different light setups.
In Unity 4 we used to do that using "Bake selected", but that seems to be gone.

Is it still somehow possible to bake objects with different light setup in Unity 5?

 

I am also having this problem. Did you find a work-around?

 

I am also facing this problem.

 

I'm currently trying a pretty annoying work-around:
I manually unwrap the objects,
place the unwrap inside second and third uv channel,
place them in a seperate scene inside Unity and bake them with appropriate lighting,
re-save the resulting lightmaps,
and assign them to a self-made shader that reads uvs from the 3rd uv channel.

Result: I have differently baked objects that can still use first uv channel for textures and second uv channel for a composite lightmap. Can change the shader if I want to change how the lightmaps blend.

It's indeed pretty nasty but the best I came up with since the 'Bake selected' feature is no longer available.

 

In theory that should be possible using the Culling Mask property of Unity's lights. You could put objects in your scenes to different layers, set the culling mask on each light appropriately and bake them.

Unfortunately culling masks with lightmapping seems to be broken in Unity right now. At least it's (still) not working for me in 5.1.1f1

Feel free to leave a vote for this bug in the issue tracker: http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/cullingmask-lightmapping-ignores-lights-culling-mask

Maybe a Unity dev can give us some information, whether this bug is being addressed at the moment?

 

Afaik it never worked for baked lighting. Someone once said the culling masks are intended for realtime lighting only.
Which doesn't change the fact that it would be an extremely useful feature. Gonna share its issue tracker to get it some more attention.
Still I'd appreciate a dev statement on this or a possible workaround.

 

I just found this:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/lightmap-uvs-stretched.313379/
If I understand Kubas reply correctly, Bake Selected will come back in Unity 5.2.

 

In the object panel you can apply different settings the the Advanced Parameters. I am able to fine tune things pretty well that way. Not having bake selected is devastating when you change one little piece of the scene and need to bake the entire thing. I would like to be able to use Baked GI selectively in a scene.