Hello, I have this “Neon” furniture, it glows and everything, however, it requires about 6 lights per piece to look good, which I believe could be reduced to 2 lights and a lightmap, but I have no idea how to (Im new to lightmaps) and all I can find related to this is in Unity 5.
Here is an image of the simplest furniture piece: the glow pole.
As you can see, there are 6 lights, of which only 5 and 6 illuminate the world, ignoring the glow-pole itself, while the lights 1-4 serve as self-illumination and their culling mask is only the glow-pole.
If I remove the four self-illumination lights and include the glow pole in the culling mask of the lights 5 and 6, it looks like this:
Because lights 5 and 6 are inside the pole, they fail to illuminate it completely.
And if I make the purple glass material emissive, it looks like this:
(The texture is obscured completely by the emission)
Though “6 lights per piece” might not sound a lot for some people, when you have enough furniture it destroys your computer, here is a small room of the scene:
And, if I show you the same view, but selecting the lights…
So, as you can see, there is a ton of lights, and this is not even with the “6 lights per piece” rule, as some of the lights were deleted because a light from another nearby furniture piece already covered its job.
So, I am thinking I might be able to lightmap the self-luminiscence lights and reduce by two-thirds the amount of lights running real-time. Light mapping the whole scene is not an option.
Any help? Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I was thinking perhaps the material itself not receiving shadows, but if you do that it still needs light to not appear black, I’ve never worked with shaders so I don’t know if that is what causes it.
