Lightmap tool

Don't be slowed down by the limitations of your current lighting tools and content. HDR Light Studio has now helped thousands of commercial 3D artists, world-wide, to speed up the lighting process and produce better quality renders. It has become an industry standard over the last 12 years and we work closely with our partners to create plug-in connections to: 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, MODO, Houdini and many more.

By making the interface simple and fast it makes it spontaneous, which is all important to us as artists. It helps us focus on lighting more, and to create subtle refined lighting effects that would be painstaking to create otherwise.

To get good lightmap results we need to ensure that rendering is based only on data that is relevant to light propagation and not to the point of view of camera during rendering. To get illumination data out of the modeling tool we want to render the light data into a texture.

We can specify resolution and format for it. In 3ds Max this is done using the Render To Texture window. Depending on the quality and time of rendering in some situations the illumination data in the output might be not perfect and suffer from noise. This is easily solvable by applying some blur to the image that will not blur the edges in texture but will smoothen plain sections.

In Photoshop this is done using Surface Blur filter:. At this stage you have your geometry with a second UV channel UV1 and HDR lightmap textures and it is time to upload them to your PlayCanvas scene and setup the materials. This is done by drag 'n' dropping the files or using the upload button in assets panel. After you've uploaded your geometry it will auto-generate materials. How it works : Tutorial : Supports : Contributors :. The system relies on this component : LevelLightmapData It references the different lighting scenes, builds the lighting, and stores the dependencies to the lightmaps.

How it works : Make a scene with your static geometry only. Disable Auto baking important. If you want to use lightprobes, also add a lightprobe group to the geometry scene.

Make several lighting scenes in your project. These scenes should not contain static geometry. The Lighting scene settings must not use auto baking. Add your lighting scenes and your static geometry scene to your Build Settings scene list.

In your static geometry scene, add an empty gameObject and attach a LevelLightmapData component to it. Sale New release discounts. This content is hosted by a third party provider that does not allow video views without acceptance of Targeting Cookies. Please set your cookie preferences for Targeting Cookies to yes if you wish to view videos from these providers.

Render pipeline compatibility. It is a general-purpose render pipeline that has limited options for customization. The Universal Render Pipeline URP is a Scriptable Render Pipeline that is quick and easy to customize, and lets you create optimized graphics across a wide range of platforms.