How do i build lighting for CURRENT level only?

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when i go to build, i cant find how to only build the lighting on my current level (it says all levels).

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Hi Alx0427,

This is building the lighting for all the levels that are within this map. Not the entirety of the game.

If you go to Window in the menu bar (top left) > Open Levels >

Here you will see a display of the persistent and all streaming levels.

As a side note, anything in the persistent level such as shadows or lights will get baked into all the other levels.

When the build is taking place it is using all these levels when it’s being built.

If you look at the Strategy game and Vehicle game you can see how Epic has used Level streaming like this as a way to organize and handle effects and lighting.

Thank you!

Tim

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that does not answer the question :frowning:

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shortly - no, you can’t?

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shortly -

This is building the lighting for all the levels that are within this map. Not the entirety of the game.

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this does not answer the question either -_-

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that’s geometry, not lighting…

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Hope this helps :slight_smile:

Remove any lights from the persistent level
Put all lighting that will affect each sub-level in its own sub-level
Put each sky sphere in its own level
Open each sublevel map (from the content browser)
In each one, add the proper light level and sky level as a sub-level
Build each map and save
The baked lighting will show up on “Main” for each sub level.
You won’t need to have any light sub-levels in “Main” level (must test and decide whether or not to remove)

IG: AnaCarolina_Art
ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artist/anacarolinapereira

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u could probably just open up the sub level alone… not through the persistant level. Thats what i do for light build testing at the very least… so i dont get lighting from other sublevels.