What am I doing wrong?

Hi I seem to be struggeling with something that should be fairly straight forward. For test purpose I simple want to lightmap a quad with a baked point light. And also a realtime point light... This does work... kinda...

Here is how it looks before baking, the red light is baked only, the blue realtime. This is more or less how I expect the baked result to look like.


BUT what I get is this:


This happens in all the settings I have tried. My last lighting settings was:


Any ideas what is causing this drastic change in the intensity of the red light when it is baked to the lightmap? is it perhaps a bug in 5.3.2f1?

 

For the record I have testet with 5.3.4f1 and the result is the same!

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Hi,

I'm not sure, but I think baked and real time doesn't work in the same way.

So you have to play with the intensity to have something coherent.

Anthony
Unity Asset Store - App Advisory portfolio

 

Yeah but the difference here seems dramatic! The red light is baked in both images, or rather in the first the lightmap has not yet been baked - so I guess it is showing the realtime version untill the beaking. But still the difference is very big I think, is this by design?

 

The problem is, if you want to publish on mobile, 2 lights could be a problem ...

Anthony
Unity Asset Store - App Advisory portfolio

 

Gamma or Linear space? If gamma, this is a well known issue. And, to make a very long story short: they are working on it...in the form of a path-tracing lightmapper. So yes, to get predictable results, you literally need to: adjust, bake, wait, check...in that order and repeat until you get desired results (for baked lighting).

Baked lighting is somewhat more predictable when you are in linear mode.

Don't quote me, but I believe that a beta preview of the new lightmapping is due in a beta of 5.4. I hesitate to say it will come in 5.5. I have been waiting since 5.3 for a fix to gamma baking myself.

 

Even if one is baked and there is only one realtime light?

 

Thanks - Yeah im in gamma (targeting mobile)... That seems to be it! Is there anything in the issue tracker to follow that you know of?

 

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