ArchViz tips - Let's make Unity better than ever! (Photorealism)

[Stardog]

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First things first, I don’t believe ‘enlighten’ is the job for this.

1. Although it is much faster than PLM the light maps are just unreliable and in general much worse especially on intricate objects and cranking up the light map resolution didn’t help. Also, I’m not sure if this is a bug but some of my shadows on the ground are mis aligned. I’m not sure if I’m right in saying this, but PLM seems to mimick Epic’s lightmass the best. And lightmass is currently the benchmark to rate stuff on. It makes sense because typically for production quality you are looking and 1-2 hours bakes. Yes sadly this is the same for unity and PLM, it cannot be avoided.

PLM seems to be much lower quality than Enlighten. Remember the Enlighten team spend 24/7 just doing GI. It will probably always be better than anything Unity could do themselves.

From my tests, Enlighten is much closer to Lightmass. [See this picture of the vent]( Progressive CPU Lightmapper page-13#post-3479509) - it’s very dark in PLM. When they get GPU baking working, maybe than can do a more complex light bounce algorithm and it will still be 10x faster.