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[darthviper107]

Enlighten still has to use lightmap UV's. The only thing that Enlighten offers is the ability to adjust lighting dynamically for objects and lights that...

[darthviper107]

That door is very simple so it should be able to do like a 256 lightmap resolution, if it's not getting good results then you might need to take a look...

[darthviper107]

You want the lowest resolution that gives you results you're OK with. A large surfaces doesn't necessarily need a huge lightmap if it doesn't receive...

[darthviper107]

It depends on how much surface are there is, you may need to split those up into more parts.

[darthviper107]

There is some content there provided by Epic that you can download for free, and you are allowed to use that in your game without any additional cost....

[darthviper107]

Make sure that you adjusted the correct setting for the lightmap resolution--when you open up a static mesh from the content browser there's a section...

[darthviper107]

If you're baking everything to completemaps then honestly you don't need to take it to UE4, you could just keep it in 3ds Max and set everything to use...

[darthviper107]

The issue with baking something like a completemap is that the reflections will be baked in for that camera view so if you're changing the camera view...

[darthviper107]

You can keep the modifier on there in your 3ds Max file if you want or you can collapse them and it'll still keep those two channels on the mesh where...

[darthviper107]

In the meantime before you get access to Datasmith you can try the FBX Scene Import option:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Con...

[darthviper107]

SSR (screen space reflection) has nothing to do with this at all, this is about the lighting.

This is an issue with the indirect lighting...

[darthviper107]

Lighting is still a big issue for archviz. Epic has the Datasmith plugin for moving scenes easily to UE4 while also converting materials and stuff, but...

[darthviper107]

I think we can do better than Enlighten, since it has so many limitations and still requires a long build time I think we can find a fully dynamic GI...

[darthviper107]

The workflow for UE4 is that the first UV channel is for your material, so that can be overlapping and doesn't have much requirements. For lighting you...

[darthviper107]

It sounds like what you're wanting to achieve is something that's similar to the work of Digic/Blur, and that's not going to be cheap, at least a million...

[darthviper107]

When you export things to UE4 the pivot will be at 0,0,0
So if you have an object and you want the pivot to be in a particular position on the object,...

[darthviper107]

Make sure your lightmap UV's aren't overlapping and you also might need to increase the lightmap resolution for those meshes.

[darthviper107]

Yeah, the source is available if someone wants to modify Lightmass to avoid the issue.

[darthviper107]

you might have some UV islands that are too small, but mainly the issue is that your lightmap resolution is set to the default which is 64, increase that....

[darthviper107]

That's a big mistake, you know very little about game development and your goal is to make one of the most complicated types of games as your first project,...