Using Static Objects in Baked Lightmap

cybereality

I've been messing with lightmaps, and I want to designate certain objects (like a building, a room, statues, etc.) as static so they have all their light and shadows baked in the lightmap and do not get processed for lighting/shadowing at runtime.

If I set the light (I'm using an Omni light) to bake mode All, then this does basically what I want. However, the resulting lightmaps are super blocky and pixelated, while with Indirect it looks great (but only has indirect light, which is not what I want).

I'm still learning, so maybe I missed a setting, but I can't seem to get static baked lighting to work properly. Here is a picture of what I'm talking about.

Any ideas?

cybereality

Also, performance doesn't seem that great, even with the lights hidden. I would assume with no lights and a lightmap I'd be getting much better performance, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

EDIT: Sorry, I had SSAO enabled by accident. Runs smoother now with it disabled.

Calinou

This is a known issue and should be fixed when the lightmapper is rewritten in Godot 4.0.

cybereality

Okay, I see. That's not ideal, but thanks for the response.

cybereality

Would you happen to know how progress is going on the new lightmapper and if it will be included in Godot 4.0? I am considering writing a GPU path-tracer for Godot, since currently the lightmapping is unusable for my project (I'm targeting mobile, and I want to have all light baked, no real-time lighting). I don't think it would be too hard, but I don't want to do any duplicated effort if things are close to being released. Please let me know, thanks.