Hi all, I guess I’m not the first one who experiences this weird behaviour, but i couldn’t find a solution for it yet. I’m talking about the powder like white spots. Attached an image of a couch under a spotlight (2 spots on the wall lighting downwards).
What I’ve already tried:
turned off emissive and diffuse boost of the wall behind the couch
increased light map - its 1024 now, doesn’t really make a difference, they are still on the couch
turned off the spot lights, its still there
moved the spotlights out of the flat so it doesn’t cover that area - white spots were still there
added an inside wall to the wall if it was light leaking somehow - nope
reflection capture in that part of the room doesn’t poke outside of the room - its not from the over-lit outside environment
couch UVs are fine, there is another couch to the left with the same material and setup and it doesn’t do anything like this
the spots dont react to lighting change - if I lower the intensity of the spot lights - but yeah as ive tried without them its definitely not the spot lights issue.
Other areas of the level are completely fine, this is something area specific - must be
One more thing:
Dynamic (moveable) Actors’ lighting is done in a very different way than static ones. If the couch is a dynamic - change it to a static one and see if the problem persists.
I tried, even the passes, it seems to be a GI issue, only disappears when i turn off GI
most likely caused by indirect skylight (existing spot lights doesnt make the issue go away even if i deleted them from the scene
However, by moving the couch a bit away from the wall seems to lighten the white areas, but this is not really a problem solving as in this case its fine, i did it for demoing purposes, but if a client wants something by a wall, and this reappears as an issue, I dont know how to fix it for good.
thanks but ive just started to learn it a few weeks ago
so, I have a few lightmass portals in the windows to channel the indirect light into the room.
Indirect light ray bounces are set to 100, indirect quality set to 10.
the exterior in this case doesnt matter too much as it is an interior demo, if I’d do exterior i would probably build it in another level so when you go in you have a different lighting setup for the room compared to the outside, so I dont have to sacrifice the look on either the outside or the inside - since its not an actual game, more of an archviz demo, it does not have to be that “seamless” regarding navigation in and out of a building. (so I think a loading screen is fine)
So as far as my knowledge goes about global illumination my bet would be that the rays are bouncing back and forth in that area, but i have no idea how to “kill them” after a few bounces as for the rest of the scene the 100 bounces look perfect
I am not that experienced in Unreal lighting as you probably are. I’ve worked however, with other rendering engines and I think I know what the solution might be.
Put an additional light (plane light preferably) right behind your window. It must be bluish, very week and as
Problem: There are very few rays from the sky dome coming in through the window. The sky dome has a set number of rays firing and if the opening is small enough you get very few of them actually in the room.
You might be able to increase the number of rays but this would be an “overkill” for your exterior. Also it will increase the baking time tremendously.
You might make the window big enough so enough rays enter the room but that is not always possible especially if you work with real building plans.
I think it’s more texture problem rather than a lighting one, how are your textures made? are you using substance or anything similar? try multiplying your metallic/roughness or specular by half
