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Introduction to light baking

Introduction to light baking - Unity Tutorial

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Introduction to light baking

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- [Instructor] If you've never heard of the term light baking or don't quite understand what it is, this video is for you. In its simplest form, light baking creates a light map composed of texels, which is a texture that is overlaid on top of your 3D objects with the light information applied to it. In other words, baked. For each texel in your map, Unity sends rays towards the light to read how it impacts this texel. When you have a scene with multiple lights added to it, this light creates shadows and highlights and often changes the color properties of your objects. For instance, a no pack green would have regions of the object that have a lighter green and some other areas, a darker green. Multiply this with dozens, if not hundreds of 3D objects on your scene and you can probably suspect what issues we may have. Our computer resources will struggle quite a bit in trying to render all these different objects…

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