My first project - Bad Lighting and Shadows

Development Architectural and Design Visualization
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Hi, i’m currently making my first architectural project and this is my current result:

https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/gq94jtrFG.png

https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/gqaK9kJYx.png

https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/gqnfKUfGU.png

The model lightmap is set to 2048

Lightmass Settings:
Static Lighting Level Scale - .5
Num Indirect Lighting Bounces - 100
Indirect Lighting Quality - 10
Indirect Lighting Smoothness 1

**Skylight:
**Cubemap - EpicCourtyard
Intensity - 3

**Directional Light:
**Intensity - 10
Dynamic Indirect Lighting - ON

PostProcess Settings:
Indirect Lighting Intensity - 0.2

No INI edits.

I have Lightmass importance volume and Lightmass portals:

So, in the first image corners seems have some AO.
The second image have just bad shadows and i can’t identify the problem.
In the third image shadows are imprecise.

Can the model be the problem?

Any suggestion will be appreciated

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Is that whole building one mesh? As in is it using a single lightmap?

Another thing to check is the light building quality, is it set to preview?

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Thanks for your reply Steve_T. Yes it is a single mesh but the ceiling. The quality is set to production

4

Did you set the lightmap resolution for the mesh, and exported the mesh with a second UV maps? In rendering tab has a field to set the lightmap resolution.

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You need to split it up into more pieces, if it has a lot of surface area then you can’t get as good of a result with a high resolution lightmap. Also make sure that no meshes are extending beyond each other. Beyond that you can try increasing the lightmass quality.

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Yeah i would split the mesh into a few pieces, then you can have a separate lightmap for them and overall the quality will be better.

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hi, what program are you using for model?