Light Baking

It's a new technique allowing saving results of light occlusion and shadows in a new layer of texture.
Generating and utilizing light baked textures can be used to add top quality visualization for mobile viewers not capable of performing those calculations in real time.
Light baking also can be used with Desktop and VR viewers to provide great quality shadows and lighting without wasting precious CPU power on calculating them.




Light Baking

Light Baking Tutorial

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This is a quick introduction to the new light baking technology introduced in SimLab Composer 8.1. Light baking, allow us to create superior 3D visual experience on low end mobiles.



Generate once use many times

Once you perform light baking for the model, the results are saved, results are not affected by the texture being used on the object, so the user can change texture, and texture scale without the need to regenerate light baking maps.