experimental vertex color painting lighting engine

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Hi,

As an answer to a project’s need in the Commercial Work section, I started an experimental lighting engine in Unity.

The original thread : http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/149110-IES-photometric-file-support

The work is still in progress :

Here’s a web player demo to play with :
www.tanant.info/demo/VertexLightDemo3.html

(as a quick start, clic on “L Grid on wall” and “Bake” . You can orbit cam with mouse drag and select lights to edit parameters)

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WOW dude thats really nice. Amazing job. but isn’t there something for this already in unity?.

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If you’re talking about Beast, that doesn’t bake to vertex colors, and is only available in the editor, not at runtime.

–Eric

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Yes, absolutely !
Beast is amazing but rendering is very cpu-intensive and takes a long time. And lightmaps textures memory footprint is sometimes also a problem.

Vertex color painting could be a very much cheaper alternative when lighting has to change at runtime (rendering takes only a few seconds depending on lights count) and on a mobile platform (light count is virtually unlimited).

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Really just need a bake to vert col option for beastie poos.

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A few experimentations with power and directivity patterns :

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Wow. Just stumbled onto this for the first time.

Is this happening?

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We just released a vertex painter that has this feature. It can import beast lightmaps into vertex colors, and can be swapped or modified during runtime. Here’s the thread: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/192711-VPaint-Advanced-Vertex-Painting-Released.