Light Without Shadows

[MiTHMoN]

@Kalle-H;616824

Instead of making material where you use base color you directly output your albedo texture to emissive.

Oh, sorry, I didn’t understand what you meant until I looked at the default Third Person map in which it has an animated 2D help item. I looked at its blueprints and now I understand that I need to put the color directly into the Emissive slot. Thanks

I still don’t know how to change a whole map to Emissive without doing every single piece manually, and that’s the most important part.

@EXpMiNi;616980

If you just want that, run your game with the lit buffer, it’s more simple and you have nothing to change in your materials or/and your lights.

Plus, I don’t really like the method of the emissive for that kind of effect, the third solution is to add a Skylight set in movable and disable “Casts Shadows”, all your level will be lighted the same way and if you don’t like the AO you just have to put a post process volum and disable it.

The advantage of this method is that you can still have your “lit” effect and add “next gen” effect if you need to, you’re not stuck with the lit buffer nor emissive materials. Artistically it’s better in everything :).

I don’t understand what a “lit buffer” is. I Googled it and couldn’t find anything. I also don’t know what “AO” means.
With the “skylight” option, if I attach a light to each player, how do I make the light uniform? As in not super bright close to the light and fading with distance. Also, does it pierce through walls unobstructed?

I want my game to be lit up fully, with zero shadows. All shadows completely disabled, and all light completely disabled, so the game uses the least possible memory in that department.