Hi Everyone, We are baking an interior and the bake maps lack contrast compared to the Vray ones we were doing before.
The Corona renders are looking a little flat in the Web GL engine we use.
Would anyone have some good recommended settings for baking pure light maps that have good contrast and aren’t too over blown ion the lighter parts of the render?
I attached my settings, please let me know if I am off some where, new to baking in Corona
Sorry for the lack of response, but could you tell us more about what you are doing?
How exactly are you baking the maps, and what kind of maps?
What results are you getting, and what results you would like to get?
I’d would love to use Gamma 2.2, but render to texture doesn’t seem to respect it.
Is there a way to fix that, here are the proper Corona settings, the wrong image was attached before. We have the workflow for compenstating for the Gamma switch in Vray, exposure control *.45 and it seems to works well, little to much contrast.
With baking in Corona the contrast seems reduced compared to the renders, migth be user error though
Also, even with padding of 32 pixels, there are a lot of seams in Corona bakes compared to Vray:
AFAIK RTT respects gamma settings just fine. Use override settings instead of automatic, if you want to be sure.
As for the bleeding seams. I think it’s not paddings fault, but the way you’ve constructed your geometry. If you made your walls and floors overlapping each other, then obviously there will be completely black regions in your lightmaps, and when mipmapping those areas will bleed. I’ve attached overpainted one of your screens, where i marked problematic area in red colour. Hope it helps.
Hi There,
It’s a problem for sure in terms of baking, but I can’t remodel every interior we do and sort of have to live with that modeling setup unfortunately.
I don’t have the same issue with Vray, and that’s the bake map, a straight Png, not mip mapped yet, seems to be an error in terms of the bake, that’s using Corona 1.5
Here is the Vray lightmap and Corona lightmaps to compare. You can see the Corona Lightmaps are off compared to the Vray in terms of padding.
I attached 2 images.
I can upload the files so you can take a look at the before and after.
As far as i can see, both Corona and Vray gives perfectly good padding. Your problem is not in padding, as i said earlier it’s in those black regions that lies inside UV shells in Corona baked map. You can see that in Vray map there are darker regions too, but they aren’t completely black and bleeding isn’t noticeable. I suspect that this happens because Corona gives very precise GI and if there’s overlapping meshes in your model, light simply cannot reach it. If Vray bakes the same model with much lighter overlapping regions, it’s probably because your render settings in it are tuned for speed and not for precision and it gives more lousy GI with light bleeding where it shouldn’t. I’d say it’s not Corona does a bad job, it’s Vrays bad GI coincidentally cancels out bad modelling and gives you inacurate, but “seamless” result :]
I don’t think so. If you want lousy GI, there’s little sense to abandon Vray :]
What you could try, is to colour select completely black areas in photoshop and fill it with surrounding colours. That could help to eliminate seams bleeding.
I tried a few things to do that, it’s a ton of work either way, remodel everything or rework all the seams in Photoshop.
The seamless meshes it does work with, here is a simple room thats seamless in terms of the mesh being tight walls to ceiling
This is the same file rendered using 1 gamma that is not supposed to work. Obviously i’d like to stay with 2.2 because I don’t have to rework the lighting, but the light maps
look like their supposed to when using 1 Gamma
Now this is not an issue with Corona, with Vray you have to set the Gamma to 1 (Off typically) to get the lightmaps to not be dark.
Mike
For the Gama, I can do internal tests, but our script guy can’t touch this for a while, it’s a big change in terms of if / then sort of stuff I guess in the workflow.
, the seams issue is the bigger problem buy far, we can’t remodel everything, we have hundreds of interiors that would need that done.
