Beast Crash on "Importing ADS Structure"?

Unity Engine
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I’m trying to lightmap a rather large and dense scene with Beast. I’m planning on just lightmapping the large objects and let real time lighting take care of the smaller more detailed objects with the dual lightmap feature. But I’m running into a problem. I’ve set all of the objects that I want to be lightmapped to “Static” and made sure that I didn’t have any non-mesh renderer’s set to static (read that it may cut down on the initial “thinking” time?). I disabled all GI bounces and left AO set to 0, as well as set the resolution to low and the texels to 25 (tried 50 at first then moved down after failure). From what I can tell it took Beast about 45 minutes to actually start up (meaning that I press “Bake” and unity basically lags for said amount of time). Then about 20 minutes into the beginning baking process (Creating Temp Shapes, Building ADS Structure ect…) it will get to Importing ADS Structure and “thebeast.exe” will just end. No errors in Unity3d, no lightmaps created and I have no idea what to do. D:

If anyone needs any info to try and help me troubleshoot this please ask! I’ll be checking this often.

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Have you filed a bug report and attached your project to it? That would probably get you the best results (along with cross posting it here).

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Don’t I need an error of some sort to file a bug report?

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I’m uploading my bug report now. 1600mb…

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Finished uploading the bug report and attached scene file.

(Case 389644)

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Any news on this?

My light bake scene which is just two terrain objects stops at ‘building ADS structures’ if I remove one of the terrains I can get it to work but I need the other terrain to cast shadows onto the other terrain, the terrains are 2048x2048 heightfields.

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beast try to use more of 4g ram and crash because beast is build in 32 bits

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Hey guys. Had this issue as well. You almost certainly have obejcts with far too much geometry in your scene for your hardware to handle. Either reduce the amount of polygons in one object (make them into multiple objects and then import) or lightmap one huge object at a time with the bake selected command.