Procedural mesh and baked lighting

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Hello, I’m generating a procedural mesh in the construction script of a blueprint. I have no problem generating the mesh but when I bake lighting the mesh is not affected at all. If I create a static mesh from the procedural mesh the default lightmap resolution is too small, but once I increase this value the static mesh version bakes just fine.

For testing purposes my procedural mesh is simply a one sided plane with 4 vertices, 2 triangles and a square UV set.

Is there a way to get procedural meshes to be baked with static lights? Or do they already do this and I’m doing something wrong?

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Hi!

…I don’t know if it’s relevant but Unreal needs meshes with thickness to calculate proper lighting… if you could try with a simple procedural BOX instead of the plane…

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Hello, are you sure planes don’t get lit properly? I converted the procedural mesh to a static mesh, and the static mesh version seems to light properly.

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How are you convert procedural in static?