Lighting changing radically after building lighting

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Alright, I’m a super noob here but I’m at a loss.
Here’s what I want:

light1
light11421×568 257 KB

Here’s what I get:

light2
light21526×555 187 KB

During the course of working with the level, you are instructed to rebuild the lighting, so I do and everything gets darker. I don’t even touch the lights. There’s only one major change I’ve made that I could imagine might cause this but I’m grabbing at straws. I switched from DX12 to DX11. DX12 was just to unstable, Unreal kept crashing. I’m an unreal noob so I’ll answer questions as best I can. Also, I did not create this map. I’m just adding VR functionality into it for a project.

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Do you actually want static lighting? If not, then just set the directional light to moveable.

Working with static lighting is a whole ‘thing’.

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Thanks for the help. directional light was set to stationary, not strictly static. I’m not familiar with the difference. Should all the lights in the scene be moveable? This is a VR environment, so its gotta run fast.

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Static and stationary both need building. If it’s for VR, you might well need to do that.

It takes a long of time and practice to use non-moveable lighting. One of the features being, it gets darker when you build :slight_smile:

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How do I compensate? Intensity? I’d like to call a meeting about this ‘feature’. :wink:

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It’s a dark art. I’d make your lighting stationary, then at least you can adjust the intensity after building.

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Thanks, I’ll Try that.

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