The result of an optimization technique that involves prebaking all static lighting and shadows and then applying it as a additive layer on top of static geometry at run time.
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Rendering lightmaps at runtime
I'm creating a procedural terrain system for Unity. And I'm looking for ways to efficiently cast self-shadows on it. If it wasn't procedural, I could simply bake a lightmap using Beast. But, I can't ...
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UV Atlas Generation and Seam Removal
I'm generating light maps for scene mesh objects using DirectX's UV Atlas Tool( D3DXUVAtlasCreate() ). I've succeeded in generating an atlas, however, when I try to render the mesh object using the ...
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Light Map Generation using DirectX
I'm trying to build lightmaps for an engine I'm working on. I'm using DirectX 9 w/c++ but my questions are related to the methodology behing the generation of light maps.
I have a scene built from ...
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Lightmapping & runtime combine children
Is it possible to have lightmapping on runtime generated combine children in Unity? It is possible to bake combined meshes when they are done in the editor, but the .apk/.ipa size increases too much.
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Weird rendering issue when applying lightmap through HLSL
I have a weird issue when trying to render the lightmaps in my game.
Please see the following screenshots.
Note how the scene looks up close with the lightmaps enabled.
Note how that same part of ...
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How do I blend 2 lightmaps for day/night cycle in Unity?
Before I say anything else: I'm using dual lightmaps, meaning I need to blend both a near and a far.
So I've been working on this for a while now, I have a whole day/night cycle set up for renderers ...
