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Progressive Lightmapper vs Enlighten vs Lightmass

Discussion in 'Graphics Experimental Previews' started by UnityLighting, Feb 1, 2017.

  1. UnityLighting

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    Hi

    Progressive Light mapper is available in 5.6b6
    I want to compare two light mappers in screenshots and videos.
    My first test is in a simple scene ( Bake time is same, Indirect light quality is awesome in the new light mapper)

    Gif:
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  2. Vagabond_

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    I did some quick tests and it beats up Enlighten totally moreover at high resolution
     
  3. UnityLighting

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    www.GIFCreator.me_7z0E7W.gif
    www.GIFCreator.me_cpYzrp.gif
    www.GIFCreator.me_7z0jHZ.gif
    www.GIFCreator.me_mTh937.gif
     
  4. UnityLighting

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    Progressive Lightmapping helps me to make best lighting setups for my scenes
    This is a test thats impossible with enlighten in 10-30 minutes:
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  5. hippocoder

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    Nice improvement.
     
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  6. UnityLighting

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    First baked with Progressive Lightmapper with 1000 resolution and High settings, Then switched to Enlighten.Bake time 2-3 min
    www.GIFCreator.me_uzEfEH.gif

    p12.jpg

    p1-3.jpg
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  7. Vagabond_

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    I am so happy about the Progressive Lightmapper - just speechless - thanks Unity :)
     
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  9. PolygonFormation

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    Hi guys,

    Cool progressive lightmapper, indeed.
    Now we identified a bug on scaled -1 objects (often used in ArchViz for couch or curtains for example) : black texels !

    See attached images.
    (Pure static lightmapping, with non overlapped UVs etc...)

    Thanks !

    SMaX
     

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  10. AcidArrow

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    ...right.
     
  11. UnityLighting

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    The native light map resolution for my model is 230.
     
  12. UnityLighting

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    Ambient Occlusion value is now changed from 10 to 1. You need to use something around 0.1 for AO for similar to UE4 AO.
    I don't know about your problem
     
  13. AcidArrow

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    He is talking about scaling the objects.

    That makes the normals all wrong and makes the lightmapper think it is looking at back faces and rejects the texels.

    Either play with back face tolerance, or stop using negative scale for your models.
     
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  15. PolygonFormation

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    Hi Acid,

    Yeah well, i also need to say that enlighten handled these negative scale correctly (in static baked mode at least) !
     
  16. AcidArrow

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    It did? That's bizarre, it should behave the same.
     
  17. PolygonFormation

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    Yes, look :)

    Bug reported this negative scale behaviour : Case 877021 !
     

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  18. UnityLighting

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    Lightmap scale should be a positive value.
    What is mean a negative value?
     
  19. AcidArrow

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    He means the object (the transform.localScale) is scaled negatively, not lm scale.
     
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  20. UnityLighting

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    Just for fun:
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    My preview about Progressive lightmapper (Part 1 is about day lighting and part 2 is about night)

     
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  21. CTPEJIOK22

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    thank you a lot, i watched your videos and started to work with PL too and its simple and fun. you parking scene is really great.
     
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  22. CTPEJIOK22

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    my tests: enlighten vs Progressive lighmapper
    EN.jpg PL.jpg

    settings the same, but time is different. about 20 sec for PL and about 40 mins for EN.
     
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  23. KRGraphics

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    These tests are all beautiful... once I get a copy of Alloy working with the beta, then I will real test the bake quality of my levels, especially interior levels.
     
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  24. KRGraphics

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    I really love the progressive lightmap renders of the interiors... something that enlighten really struggle with at times... I did a recent test with baking at high resolution for my Sanctuary level and it looks SOOOOOO good.
     
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  25. UnityLighting

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  26. Kuba

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    @aliyeredon2, this is likely caused by single sided goemetry and those texels below the tree seeing mostly backfaces. Please check the validity scene view visualisation for red texels and adjust the backface tolerance via LightmapParameters on the ground plane.
     
  27. UnityLighting

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    Thank you. It works :
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    Also my tree model was double sided before
     
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  29. UnityLighting

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    [20 images limit per post]
    Progressive Lightmapper









     
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  30. KRGraphics

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    This is BEAUTIFUL!! And I love the progressive lightmapper... I'm willing to wait for it to bake especially if it looks THIS good.
     
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  31. UnityLighting

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    Yes it's really game changer. With PL and Post Processing Stack now unity is best engine for graphics and lighting in the world. . Because Unity designed for all genre of the games, all genre of the scenes and all genre of the platforms.
    PL helps me to find best setup for each scene lighting in 3 min instead of 3 days.
     
  32. AcidArrow

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    I'm quite content with the progressive lightmapper.

    I'll actually be happy once they introduce some importance sampling for emissive materials, some sort of smarter filtering and proper light falloffs when baking.

    All of which I believe are coming so yay! (and patience :) )
     
  33. Vagabond_

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    Are there importance sampling techniques for emissive objects at all, as potentially every object could emit light ?

    P.S. I like PLM very much as well and am pretty excited about it...I am currently using it and it gives be decent result like in a minute which is amazing :)
     
  34. AcidArrow

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    Not sure what you mean?

    If it's an emissive material, it's emitting light, if it's emitting light, it's more important for the lighting of the scene than other surfaces.
     
  35. Vagabond_

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    A light object in general has some shape properties (sphere, rect or directional light which main property is a direction ) and an object could be any shape and size and all the objects in the scene can potentially emit light. By that i was only wondering if there is any algorithm which is able of sample properly objects which can be any shape...
    Probably there is, it is just me not familiar with it... That was just a thought !
     
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  36. AcidArrow

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    I don't think it works that way.

    Depending on the algorithm, it means throw more rays towards that submesh, since that submesh emits light, so it effects the scene more than usual.
     
  37. KRGraphics

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    And I hope with the PL, sky lighting will get some love too... I usually have to try and eyeball sun placement...
     
  38. RockSPb

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    Is it possible to solve problem with backfaces?
    Change Backface Tolerance and Pushoff don't give any effect(
     
  39. UnityLighting

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    you can solve this problem in 2 ways:
    1. Bake with higher sample Rays (Indirect and Direct Rays in lighting window) or with higher resolution
    2. Select target renderer and change lightmap scale (in MeshRenderer lighting settings)to high value (for example 100)

    If your model has been combined, you cannot use very high resolution in lightmap . You must slice it to more chunks your model and generate lightmap uvs again.
     
  40. RockSPb

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    No it is not about quality, it is about artifacts appearing when light bouncing backface geometry.
     
  41. UnityLighting

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  42. RockSPb

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    You do not read what I wrote.
    No any effect, man! And scaling to.
    It's terrible that the unity simply doesn"t use two-sided geometry mode into baking engine.
     
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  43. UnityLighting

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    If you want, send me your model to test it and find issues
     
  44. buttmatrix

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    C̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶l̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶l̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶h̶i̶p̶ ̶b̶e̶t̶w̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶E̶n̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶e̶n̶ ̶(̶E̶)̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶P̶r̶o̶g̶r̶e̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶L̶i̶g̶h̶t̶m̶a̶p̶p̶e̶r̶ ̶(̶P̶L̶M̶)̶?̶ ̶F̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶P̶L̶M̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶o̶n̶t̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶l̶o̶ ̶p̶a̶t̶h̶t̶r̶a̶c̶i̶n̶g̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶p̶i̶g̶g̶y̶b̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶E̶n̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶e̶n̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶c̶e̶s̶s̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶t̶i̶n̶c̶t̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶l̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶?̶

    EDIT: Seems to be, "No". Progressive Lightmapper uses PowerVR raytracer from Imagination Technologies. I'm a little blown away that Unity took the steps necessary to completely sidestep Enlighten.
     
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  45. buttmatrix

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    For the first gif comparing PLM vs. E, in a separate thread you indicated that the Enlighten results were due to model scaling issues, and when corrected Enlighten produced a similar result.

    Is that the case here? If so, it would seem disingenuous to compare the two and perhaps better to show the Enlighten bake after the scale values were corrected.

    Or, is it the case that for both bakes the model scales value were in fact the same, and only Enlighten produced horrible results and required the scale values be corrected?
     
  46. AcidArrow

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    The progressive lightmapper right now is much easier to use and much more predictable. Both things that Enlighten really lacked in. It's not very fast though (yet?).

    A well set up enlighten scene, in a lot of cases, can be much faster to bake and look very similar.
     
  47. buttmatrix

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    The UV seams on that sphere are pretty bad. Do we have any other example scenes with primitive objects floating around?
     
  48. UnityLighting

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    Yes. Problem was model scaling in enlighten
     
  49. UnityLighting

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    The settings is not same
    Arnold.jpg Rove.jpg Unity.jpg
     
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    pardon me, but anyone help me? i baked my scene using PLM, however whenever i load the scene or restart unity again, the lightmaps always got messed up.
    I have a base scene which contains my essential scripts which will load my baked additive scene into the game, & randomly will messed up the lightmaps. Reason why i didnt used enlighten to bake is because enlighten will take far too long to bake. Last tried to bake via enlighten took me 58hours however on PLM, took only 38mins.