Unity 5 - lighting, lightmapping and bugs

Beta 20 is the first one I use so I didn't know that! Interesting.

 

AFAIK it's when they converted the image effects from unity script to c# the bugs popped up on post fx.

 

I've encountered this light leak myself and one way I have worked around this is modeling a small bevel where the edges of the walls meet. This also happens in offline renderers too. Nothing on earth is a perfect edge... just a small bevel on geometry will help a bit.

 

Nice interiors, but I have a quick question. Why are you using Tonemapping without HDR? And shouldn't the Bloom effect come in before Tonemapping is applied, so it could use the HDR information of the frame?

 

I'm not use tonemapping without hdr

I have no answer for the second question

 

Hi guys, i send new bugreport (case 666490)

And i found some new bug now, but I do not know how to describe it in words... Problems with Unity and folders in explorer.

I think my first problem in bug report and this problem with folders is linked

 

Aw, man... I have to try it out... I also usually add a small bevel at the corners of my geometry... that also fixes light leaks...

 

Sorry, I left for a week. Now i tried to bake in beta 22, but unfortunately everything looks exactly the same as before.

 

I have 2 problems with glass (transparent/fade) material:

transparent/fade not work with DOF




If i make for all little spheres glass material - its looks terrible. They fighting with vase material and each other on different angles:

 

New problem. With lightmapping. I add model of robot to the scene, make it static, make automatic lightmap UV's, but its not baking! Do i need to bugreport?

 

Transparent objects don't write to depth-buffer. It's an interesting problem though, I'd wish to know if there are workarounds.
As for the robot, I think skinned meshes can't be baked.

 

It seems right, but it's not very good ...

 

If it's going to be static(baked), there's no point in it being a skinned mesh, just make it a mesh renderer, then it will bake.

Edit: otherwise, you could use light probes to give it the baked lighting, but honestly it's just wasteful to have a static skinned mesh in a scene.

 

Yep. For now just set the scene with light probes for the robot. And you are making such beautiful arch viz renders.

 

Another bug with lightmap

I have a coffee table near the sofa. It has a simple specular shader, marked as static but...

 

I fix it by create this object:

 

Case 673266

 

@KEngelstoft What about screen flickering when using reflection probes? I think this problem began to appear less frequently, but it has remained.

 

But i need all of this)

 

Glad to hear it!

 

I remember having that issue way back in like beta16 or something. It was fixed in one of the betas around that time. I don't see what that has to do with this.

 

Strange. I test all betas and this problem will be in any.

 

My point is, I think KEngelSoft is talking about a totally separate issue.

 

I found new two bugs.

First: All lightmaps is baked but when i change view mode to baked, directionality, albeto e.t.c all seems buggy, not normally. Its happened if i bake lightmaps, close Unity and start again. Case 673959

Second:

I change view mode "Baked" and turn off "Show resolution". Why all seems like waves? Compressed is off.

 

I noticed those waves recently as well. Not sure how long they've been around but I can definitely confirm that bug.

 

But the fact that we were given the opportunity to see lightmaps on a white material - this is my old dream, thanks to the developers)

 

What you mean here? Do we allowed to see lightmaps on white materials? I see those waves so much since my scene has flat colors on walls(especially on white surfaces).

 

Earlier in Unity 4, we can see only the resolution lightmaps. Now, in Unity 5 in the "baked" mode all materials become white. It is very convenient to adjust the lighting. When I worked with architectural visualization, I always did it in 3dsmax. Now it's easy to do and also in Unity without changing the assigned materials.

 

Why it is not enabled in real time GI?

 

I don't know if it's just me, but even though i set the AO slider to zero, there's still a stage where it says Bake AO, is this normal?

 

Something changes with GI or lightmapping on 5.0.0f3. It seems better, more light. And all seems better. Good job!

 

Great, RC4 fix maybe?

 

yep, I knew we would never see RC5

 

Anti-Aliasing and correct reflections are missing...still looks good, but it could look way more beautiful with proper reflections and Anti-Aliasing

 

AA not work in Deferred. AA as posteffect looks not very good. About reflections - i dont know how i can make more realistic reflection using Reflection Probes. Only maybe if using SSLR but Unity not have it. Need a custom shader.

I showed these models very close, in fact this model of the second plan and nobody not will be looking so close. At a distance and in the dynamics does not look bad.

 

The models don't look bad, its the shading.. it was just a little bit of reminder for unity to let the love out for Anti-Aliasing...

 

Unfortunately when using Deferred rendering it is impossible to do AA apart АА as post effect

 

Guys, I want to ask a question. I also suffer from AA. When I use deffered rendering in my scenes, scenes becomes really bad in terms of AA. I can easily see the differences between forward and defered. However, I am analyzing viking demo project. I see almost no difference between forward and defered. I started to think my arch viz models are not so good modeled. What I want to ask is that what is the difference between my scenes and viking demo project. SOme techniques while modeling has affect on AA? Or what else affect all these?

 

I don't think SSLR is going to help here. Those items reflect the part of the scene, which is not in your screen space.

 

Just stunning @homerender !