Lets create a complex lightmap - Open discussion

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There’s a variety of baking artifacts so some pictures would help tell exactly what’s going on.

The high poly and cage can be be hidden or removed after a bake, all you need for UE4 is the low poly model. They are never really attached but they do need to be exported from the same location and should be basically overlapping.

The cage basically tells the baking engine where to look for details on the high poly to make, and how to handle the protection. There’s less skewing and you get a cleaner bake with a cage. Also cages help stop different exploded parts of a model from cross projecting onto each other.

What’s the purpose of triangulating a mesh?
Is that something you do for the cage and low poly or just the cage?