Lightmapping Alternatives for Non-Artists?

Unity Engine
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I’m finding that even with low resolutions and minimal scenery, Unity 5 lightmap baking (realtime GI disabled), requires many hours, unlike Version 4 which used Autodesk Beast and ran considerably faster. Medium and high settings with Enlighten require even more time, and there are also moments when Unity becomes non-responsive while baking takes place. Because of this, I’m looking for a reasonably performant but affordable (possibly free?) alternative to Enlighten that is also accessible to developers and other non-artists.

Besides Light Map Maker, does anyone know of good alternatives?

Thanks!

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If anyone is interested, I decided to use Unity 4 alongside Unity 5, as well purchase Collada Exporter (which supports exporting Beast lightmaps) in order to export scenes to Collada files which are then imported into Unity 5. Collada Exporter works quite well, and for those doing native iOS and Mac development, it exports to a Collada format also understood by SceneKit.