# Static Lights Dont Create Shadows **URL:** \ **Category:** Rendering\ **Tags:** unreal-engine, editor, question\ **Created:** [June 13, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/static-lights-dont-create-shadows/2554592 "2025-06-13T08:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![WayAway](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@WayAway](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/WayAway)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/static-lights-dont-create-shadows/2554592/4 "2025-06-14T08:44:41Z")
What’s your Unreal engine version? If 5.6 then CPU baking shoudn’t even start… becase Swarm is broken in 5.6. You said 5.6 in the original post, so i wonder why you didn’t get an error when trying to bake. > [@UE 5.6 has no swarm manager](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue-5-6-has-no-swarm-manager/2539483): > > In Unreal Engine 5.6 Preview was an issue with baking static lights because Swarm Manager wasn’t included in Binaries/DotNET. I thought it was a preview issue and expected release version to have swarm manager or remove static ligts support in favor for Lumen RTGI. But I am still able to select None for Global Illumination and still cannot bake lights: Failed to initialize Swarm. Check to make sure you have the right version of Swarm installed. Can anyone from Unreal team clarify what’s going… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/static-lights-dont-create-shadows/2554592)._