Unite Europe 2017 - Bake it 'til you make it: An intro to Lightmaps

Thank you so much! This was the perfect introduction to baked lighting. Before watching this I had literally zero knowledge on the subject but with your help I was able to not only implement baked lighting in my game but, more importantly, solve many of the problems I encountered (artifacts, long bake times etc.). Thanks Jennifer, look forward to watching more of your talks in the future.

Thanks for the talk! I needed this. Baking in Unity has been quite puzzling for me.

This is a very good and complete explanation of how lighting works in unity and how to work with it. Thanks!

thAnk you Jennifer!! I've been struggling with lights ever since I started using Unity, i really needed this info!

getting baked waiting for scene baking. Am not baking that much anymore because bake times got much quicker lately. Double thx, you wizards

Just watched the first 2 minutes and love the way the speaker rolls up to introducing herself and the topic after the pre stuff.

This is the best talk about lighting in unity. I've always come back to it. 5th or 6th time already. Which means I am a slow learner apparently...

Wish I had seen this tutorial sooner. Very good walkthrough. :)

Thank you so much for your presentation Jennifer!

Can anyone explain to me the deal with mixed lights and baked ambient occlusion? Do I need to use "Subtractive" lighting mode to get AO on static objects from mixed lights?

This was a great talk. As someone who constantly using Enlighten for baking my levels, this is a great refresher. I am surprised that reflection probes didn't get a mention, since those are another thing I often use with IBL. A week ago I was trying to do a bake of an interior scene with them, and was trying to figure out why my scene was so washed out. And a little option for shadow distance, helped immensely. Speaking on Skyboxes, will Unity 2017 and on support 32BitFP EXR files? I was doing a bake this morning and I set my sun luminance too high and my scene turned into a 70s neon nightmare... But definitely a great talk.

23:28 You're telling us about the export to Unreal function at Unity Unite lol... Good talk! I was there actually, but at the time I didn't fully understand the sheer importance of this concept. Thanks for uploading it!

Ha, ha "It's not quantum physics...can't have a black pixel and a white pixel in the same space."

Great presentation. I went from randomly clicking things and guessing to knowing (hopefully) what I'm doing. I particularly like the tables you provided that show what settings to use depending on what type of lighting you want. Pretty idiot proof!

Subtractive mode is not working for me in 2018.1.3f1. I lose the real time lighting for my dynamic objects after I bake and the lighting from the light still affects the "baked" static objects. My lights are set to mixed and I'm not using any probes. It's just working right.

I have one question. Is Progressive Lightmapper pathtracer/raytracer like Octane ?

Great video! love it... thx Jennifer

Very good talk Jennifer, i am praying to see Progressive Lightmapper soon :D

I found this to be very helpful as I've been struggling trying to find cohesive information on light baking from various online tutorials (most being either out of date or silent w/ no narration). I don't understand why Unity doesn't offer better information and up to date tutorials on this involved process.

I love this!! thank you.