# Static Lighting for Level Desing

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/static-lighting-for-level-desing/2666906>\
**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** static-lights, unreal-engine, Lumen, Lighting, question\
**Created:** [October 20, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/static-lighting-for-level-desing/2666906 "2025-10-20T12:44:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/static-lighting-for-level-desing/2666906/1 "2025-10-20T12:44:08Z")

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Hi! My name is Víctor and I’m developing an interior, office level in Unreal 5.

My level is composed of 5 small different spaces. With a lot of many different STATIC lights. No dynamic light, skylight or fog system.

I’m planning to make a playable demo in this environment and I thought that baking my lights with GPU Lightmass would improve my performance.

The situation is that I’m having trouble generating good quality lightmaps (they appear darkened or bad). I’ve followed a couple of lighting tutorials but many developers are using Lumen and dynamic lights in their scenes/levels.

SO I guess my question is: Am I using the proper workflow for Unreal 5 now that Lumen is available? Having as many lights as I have and using an interior scene with no sun or dynamic lighting. Should I keep working with a baked/static lights workflow as I am?

Thank you for your attention.

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