# Living

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**Category:** Architectural and Design Visualization\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [May 23, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/living/92727 "2017-05-23T09:31:30Z")\
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That’s due to how the lighting system works–the lighting gets processed on each static mesh individually which can cause some lighting differences to other meshes since they aren’t rendered together:

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