Hello guys,
Can anybody help me with this problem? Working on this archviz scene and after many steps taken for the lighting setup I got some unexpected result on some spots on the wall.
As you can see on the picture, there is some kind of incorrect shadow or shadowing spots that appeared after few light builds. I tried to reset some of the lighting settings but nothing is changing. The light map resolution for the wall mesh is 1024. Any advice is welcome.
Thank you!
Hi!
I don’t know what look/quality you’re after… I guess you’ve lowered the indirect lighting scale (and smoothness maybe) to get more detail for your render… and maybe haven’t increased quality? I’d say if you raise the quality (8-10) you should get rid of those…
If you’re not after photoreal you can set scale and smoothness to 1 and I guess they’ll disappear…
Can you show your lightmass settings?
I’m trying to accomplish photorealism and here is the lightmass setting…
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Hi!
I’d lower the scale to 0.1 if you’re after photoreal. Bounces to 5-10 both of them. Quality to 8-10…
And turn OFF compression!!
Do you use portals in your scene?
ps: Do you have a skylight in your scene? /it’s bounce is set only to 1 so you won’t get GI from it really…
Hello again, I tried fixing some of my lightmass setting as you suggested and here are the results:
And yes, I have skylight in my scene and also lightmass portals but i didn’t quite understand, I should turn off “compress lightmaps” if I’m using portals?
Btw the building time is much longer now, and turning off compression will make it even longer, right?
No they don’t have any relation but they both can cause “dirty” lighting! I think turning off compression on lightmap might even speed up the process a bit! 
Your longer building time is because of the quality setting!
So please turn off the compression! This alone might solve the problem!
What I would do in your case to speed up the process: set all other asset’s lightmap resolution really low and leave high on this wall only!
I would also turn off all lights except your two main lights: skylight and directional light! I haven’t seen any of your lights’ settings… please try to turn off anything not necessary (any extra tweaks except intensity which should be around 3…)
You can also lower your indirect lighting quality to somewhere around 2-4 and build your scene in medium… you will see more artifacts but if you see “through” it you will see if the lighting got more real or not!
It it gets better then you can turn back on things on raise your quality settings!
Hopefully it will help!
No worries I’m glad you solved it!
Hi, sorry for the late response, I did mostly of the things that you mentioned but nothing was changing, so I did some research and the problem was “texture streaming pool over”, I increase the streaming pool size and the blurry spots on the wall disappeared. Thank you for your help.
