Decent lightmapper preview?

Hi,
the new lightmapper system in Unity 6 it’s somewhat cool and improved some technical shortcomings of the past, but right now the new “preview” system for baking it’s really a step backwards in terms of quality of life and usability. In previous versions I was able to work in realtime, tweaking light intensities and having the changes reflect almost instant feedback in lightmapping, watching a lowres but manageable preview comprised of both direct and indirect lighting. That was awesome. Right now, unless I’m missing something, the only way to get “realtime” lightmapping preview is by switching the viewport to the “lightmapping” debug view and selecting the “preview” render mode. Problem is, I can only see indirect lighting loosing context of the overal scene and hence involving a lot of trial and error to jump from one mode to another, do a bake, wait etc.

Is there a way in current Unity 6 to overcome this issue?

Ps: sorry for selecting the “2d sprites” category for the post, but this new forum style is giving issues on my browser, menu items keep disappearing after one millisecond so for me it’s impossible to choose the right options

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