Lightmap Baking release date

[aliyeredon]

Hi
How many days have you left to release Lightmap Baker?

[Xhed]

We don't have a fixed date for this yet. We want to make sure it passes our internal tests first, so we can send out a proper version.
We aim to release soon™

[aliyeredon]

Thank you for the answer

I have some questions

Unity has some limitation on its lightmapping

1. Baking normal maps

2. Full support for transparent surfaces with color or texture

3. Memory usage during bake

Does Octane fixed these issues ?

[Xhed]

1. Normal maps should work as intended.
2. I'm not sure on transparent surfaces.
3. It shouldn't take much more data to do the baking compared to normal rendering.

You can find detailed information about baking from Octane here

[aliyeredon]

Thank you

[aliyeredon]

Any news about release date ?

[Goldorak]

Testing live light mapping tomorrow and will get a better ETA

[aliyeredon]

Any news ?

[cjwidd]

Is it confirmed whether Octane lightmap baking will support all Unity light types, including emissive materials and IBL (cubemap), for the initial release?

[monkeybrother]

Yes, would like some more info as well.