How to add lightmass importance volume to blueprint actor ?

[jwatte]

The lighting you suggest will only work for directional lights, assuming objects are placed in more than one spot and/or move.
Thus, you can just copy the directional light rotation values in the engine, and plug them into a directional light in Max (or whatever) and they should line up!

[mhnoni]

@jwatte;593712

The lighting you suggest will only work for directional lights, assuming objects are placed in more than one spot and/or move.
Thus, you can just copy the directional light rotation values in the engine, and plug them into a directional light in Max (or whatever) and they should line up!

Yeah i think the best way to bake the light is with 3rd part SW like 3ds Max which is the same method that KVogler made but easier , hope one day we see UE4 can let us export and import bake light for an object which will save a lot of time .

[mhnoni]

@KVogler;593575

Aaaaaand here we go

Hope that gets you a little closer to what you are looking for
[MENTION=4894]Tim Hobson[/MENTION] Are there any drawbacks to that method that Im missing?

Cheers,
Klaus

Could you pls share screenshot of the material nodes that you made in UE4 editor to import the shadow for the floor ?

[KVogler]

Yeah i think the best way to bake the light is with 3rd part SW like 3ds Max which is the same method that KVogler made but easier

I just never used Max (or Modo) for shadowmap baking. Thats why I MacGyverd it in photoshop

Could you pls share screenshot of the material nodes that you made in UE4 editor to import the shadow for the floor ?

Sure

Although the material is surprisingly simple:

[mhnoni]

@KVogler;593920

I just never used Max (or Modo) for shadowmap baking. Thats why I MacGyverd it in photoshop

Sure

Although the material is surprisingly simple:

Thanks a lot mate

[manoelneto]

If you really, really, really want baked lighting, you have two options:

1. Bake light in your 3D modelling program into textures or vertex colors, then apply it using materials.

2. Use instanced levels instead of spawning actors for building your dynamic levels. UE 4.13 added an easy way to spawn levels in blueprint, the “Load Level Instance” node. This way you save each “piece” as a different level and can bake lighting in each of them.

[mhnoni]

@manoelneto;594026

If you really, really, really want baked lighting, you have two options:

1. Bake light in your 3D modelling program into textures or vertex colors, then apply it using materials.

2. Use instanced levels instead of spawning actors for building your dynamic levels. UE 4.13 added an easy way to spawn levels in blueprint, the “Load Level Instance” node. This way you save each “piece” as a different level and can bake lighting in each of them.

i still didn’t download 4.13 , seems time to check it , thanks a lot mate for this info .