Automotive/product Lighting friendly UE4 - More Lighting channels or a new method please!

[DanH71]

@anonymous_user_8238ee5d

Offline DCC software is quite different from real-time engines. I would not expect these limitations to drop any time soon… Real-time requires always sacrifice of some flexibility and visual fidelity.

sure i get that but if it is being touted as visualisation software for product/automotive and arch viz it should have the tools allowing creatives to be urrrr creative…so having more than two usable light channels to work with [3 if you count the default channel for all static meshes] should be offered. otherwise how can you light things with precision and seperation like is required in those fields.

UE4 does a lot of things brillantly and offers so much and is why greedy folk like me would like more from it so we can do more with it and ditch everything else!! But it is of course difficult to be jack of all trades without becoming master of none. I should know!

[roberteker (RobertED)]

@Rawalanche

How’s that related to light channels?

I know it’s a tangent, but I thought that lighting and reflections go pretty hand in hand.

@Rawalanche

Generally, ray tracing aside, there’s just no win scenario when it comes to reflections in UE4, or realtime render engines in general.

As I mentioned, in Unity, you have a dozen or so lighting layers to fake away with, and when it comes to reflections, you can select reflection probes on a per object level, which avoids pretty much all of the problems with Unreal.