Baked GI lighting takes long to build

Unity Engine
1

Hello,

Im using 5.4 and im trying to make my scene look better so i tried to use baked GI lighting, but its been building just the lighting for over an hour and still only 1/3 done.

The computer is going like hell at 100% usage (fans blasting away) and I have a fairly fast 8 core computer with 24 Gig of ram and static drive and lots of other goodies for speed, yet its taking so long? I got this beefed up computer special just for running Unity.

Is this normal? I have never been able to finish baking the lighting because it takes so long i always abort it before it completed, but now i need it.

Anybody have ideas (sorry I know zero about lighting)

Thanks

2

Its still building days later, i have it running on a computer by itself, is it supposed to take days to bake the Global Illumination for a scene?

3

That’s probably a question for our graphics team but no, it’s should not take that long. Can you bake a simple scene?

4

there’s baking tutorial (and example project)

5

Thanks!