I’m using UE4 on a mac and so far have completed of the first Level building tutorials. I’ve saved out my project and my level and each time I come back in I have an error at the top of my viewport.
The error reads: “LIGHTING NEEDS TO BE REBUILT (34 unbuilt object(s))”
Additionally, the atmospheric fog is no longer showing in editor as well. This could be a separate issue.
When I look at the items on my list, There are items listed with yellow or orange exclamation marks next to them. Can someone please point me in the right direction on how to fix these errors as I think that they might be related to the above mentioned.
To rebuild lighting hit the drop down arrow next to “Build” in the main toolbar and select “Build Lighting Only.” Alternatively you can just hit the “Build” button on the main toolbar.
The exclamation marks are indicators of the mobility type of the actors.
If the fog isn’t showing I would recommend clicking on it in the scene outliner and then in the “Details” panel under the “Rendering” section make sure the checkbox next to “Visible” is checked.
For some reason whenever I mess with objects that allow light to enter the room I receive the same error. I did what you suggested and that seems to help for the most part, but is there something that I am doing wrong to cause this error? Also when I rebuild, any surface that would not have a significant amount of light hitting it becomes pitch black will not illuminate if a new light source is made. Thanks!
You have to rebuild lighting after modifying the scene, that’s what the warning is telling you. You can make many edits and then rebuild once though to be fast.
Thanks alot helped me alot. That was a annjoying error messages that appears all the time. When we are in developing mode it’s should have been done automatic… i was about too quit yesterday.
First of all in UE4.17 i think its called Pre-compute Visibility Which will increase Run-time memory. And increase lightning build times. I cant find force no computed lightning. also precompute visibility is by default disabled. to solve the rebuild lightning error You have to BUILD.
I’m having the same issue, I have set the light map density resolution on the objects from 64 to 2 and even though they are now green in debug with some of the lower parts tinging into the orange I’m still getting errors when trying to rebuild the lighting. Highly frustrating!
I think before talking about errors and bugs you should understand the lighting in Unreal! You should understand what is static and dynamic lighting to decide which one you need for your scene before completely turning off light calculation as a solution! :S
I advise you to go through this page to clear things out:
But basically as it was said before a couple of times:
if you use static(or stationary) lights your lighting information will be baked into your (static)meshes! Will take just one calculation (BUILDING LIGHTING) and after that it’s on your meshes like a “material”.
And because it’s baked into your meshes whenever you make changes like moving meshes or placing new ones or changing your light properties: you will have to rebuild your lights because there are new information and your scene needs to be “updated”.
Keep in mind that this is the only way right now to get proper GI! You won’t get any from dynamic lighting!!
I hope it clears a few things but read through that wiki page also!!
Good luck!
We have the same problems and know what causing it. We have small objects setup Lightmap Type - Force Volumetric. This objects are causing editor constantly tells us that this objects has to be rebuild right after light calculations.
Any ideas how to resolve it?
Thank you!
We have the same problems and know what causing it. We have small objects setup Lightmap Type - Force Volumetric. This objects are causing editor constantly tells us that this objects has to be rebuild right after light calculations.
Any ideas how to resolve it?
Thank you!
@Jurassic Studios - The “Force No Precomputed Lighting” option is still in UE 4.17 and higher - just keyword “Force” into the World Settings search bar.
I found that inside version 4.22 in the main tab under “Design” underneath it, by pressing “Design only lighting” you have to install “SwarmAgent” to fix it
