Light Map Overlapping Issue by using multiple materials / uvs

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Hello everyone!

It’s been almost a year since I’ve started to develop with UE4 and it’s always been a really fun time

  • thanks to developers for this really cool engine and dev suite and the great comunity for all that tutorials, answers and help!

But since yesterday I face a problem I’ve not yet had:

I have modeled a mesh in blender with 4 objects and asigned to them 4 Materials (respectevely).
I UV-unwrapped them (as I always did, but now 4 times, each for every object / material).
Then I’ve created for every object a second UV as needed.

My problem is (exactly as I was afraid I would have) when I import the FBX file,
all the uv’s of all 4 materials are merged on one channel and of cause overlapping each other…

Does anybody know how to fix it (I suppose my workflow in blender is wrong)?

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Thank you in advance!

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When you import to UE4 there’s an option to Combine Meshes, uncheck that if you want the separate meshes to remain separated.

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Also you have to take in to consideration that lightmaps are a per-mesh thing, not per-material. So even if you have one mesh with 4 materials each unwrapped properly themselves, Lightmass will still treat the whole mesh as one material for lighting.

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If you have UE4 generate the light map, you can overlap all you want, as long as one island isn’t overlapping with itself.

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Seems to work!!! Thank you!!!

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No, lightmap UV’s can never overlap

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What I meant was your UV0 channel can be stacked or overlap, and when UE4 generates the light map UVs, it will unstack the UVs.

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Right, any other UV channel outside of the channel that the lightmaps use can be overlapping.