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Lightmap resolution - Unreal Engine Tutorial

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- [Instructor] So lighting in Unreal could be a course unto itself and in fact there are courses in the library on just unreal lighting which I recommend you check out. But what we want to focus on here is lighting issues related to the assets that we've imported. Seeing as this is a course primarily about how we flow assets to Unreal I want to talk about some settings related to our geometry that it's going to ensure you get the best lighting results possible. In Unreal we have a whole system of light map baking which you can think of like if you come from a different environment like when you an ambient occlusion map in substance designer or you do something like that where you're pre baking something related to lighting to help things more be efficient. That's basically what light mapping is because we have kind of a beautiful global illumination and shadow system and all this great stuff happening and in Unreal sometimes you want that stuff to be dynamic but often you want certain…

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