( MAKE IT STICKY! ) Light Build, How to set-up the Lightmass -tutorial for beginners

[Tim_Hobson]

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Okay yeah that’s good to know about the kite world being dynamic. If that’s mentioned in the documentation, then that’s my fault obviously for missing that.

For the meshes, I’ve bought assets that don’t come with LOD’s. Obviously they sound very important as you’ve pointed out. Is there a process for creating these LOD’s that I could do once I have the meshes? Like for example let’s say I buy a nature pack and it has 20 trees and rocks but no LOD’s. Is this a fault of the asset creator or something I need to set up manually?

Thanks guys!

In the marketplace submission guidelines there is no information about requirement of LODs. So this is up to the content creator if they choose to offer LODs. Honestly, it’s in their benefit to offer LODs because it makes their assets more efficient with minimal additional work.

There are options for creating LODs. Typically these involve a 3d modeling application though. If you have a access to 3Ds it’s pretty simple and without much headache (IMO). You can see my process for doing this here: https://forums.unrealengine/showthread.php?56777-Photons-Be-Free-Mini-tutorials-and-other-curiosities&p=227697&viewfull=1#post227697

Simplygon offers a plugin for UE4 that can do this (not sure what their plugin cost is). https://www.simplygon/