Static object too reflective after baking

Unity Engine
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I have some trees in my scene that are simply too “emissive” when baking. I stripped the scene down to a single tree to accelerate the bake for testing purposes. As you can see from the images, the tree forms a very visible green circle around itself with a much darker and smaller green circle directly underneath it. These are not shadows as I have shadows currently disabled. Furthermore, it stains the cliff behind it with the same green color.

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My settings can be found here. What do you guys think is causing this?

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Looks to me like you have too much light in general.

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I have one directional light source. I know it looks very bright, but that’s only in the editor. Once I deploy to Android the brightness is normal.
I’m developing for the Gear VR.

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Did you create your own UV for lightmaps? Did you make sure they don’t overlap? Did you click preserve UV? Did you generate the UV through Unity? They look similar to the black spots which often is related to UV mapping issues. So please take a look and confirm.

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These are Indirect Shadows and Indirect Light(GI) affects from skybox/ambient light source

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Lightmap UVs are generated by Unity.

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Is there a way to disable those effects completely or lessen them?
Also they seem to disappear when shadows are turned on in the light source. I had shadows disabled so far.

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Set indirect intensity to 0 from Lighting Window. Also id you have lights, set bounce intensity to 0 too

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Doing that turns the whole scene black.
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So you can clean your lightmap data and use Color as ambient source without baking.
We need Baking to add GI and Indirect Shadows affects into the scene

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Yes, but you are better off creating your own. Custom made are more reliable and superior in their quality. You will avoid black spots more, black unclear shadow, and you can use lower quality settings to get better quality.

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So you’re saying that to get rid of the effects I would need to forgo baking altogether? In that case my scene wouldn’t have shadows since I have Realtime Lighting disabled. I have also noticed previously that not baking the scene when the light source is mixed or baked causes low fps.

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Well the models in my scene are imported from the asset store so I assumed the UV maps were to be used as is. Can I still make the UV maps myself if I haven’t made the objects myself?

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If you have direct light source, you must bake the light for higher performance.
If you don’t have light source, you don’t need to bake lighting if you don’t want GI or Indirect shadows.
If you want to disable GI and bake only direct light source effect, I think it’s not possible in unity 5 settings window

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Thank you very much for the insight :slight_smile: