For the past few years at Artillery I’ve had the opportunity to lead the Rendering, Lighting and Post-Processing pipeline on Guardians of Atlas among many other projects. Here’s a quick overview of what a frame looks like in our compositor.
Light baking and automatic UV unwrap in 3DS Max
Having a big mesh composed of a multitude of simple geometry shapes can be long and painful to map UVs for light baking and rendering advanced lighting into a texture can save up a lot of resources when rendering static meshes in real time.
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to automatically unwrap UVs and bake advanced and cost-heavy lighting components (Ambient Occlusion, Shadows, Caustics, Global illumination) into a lightmap texture using Max’s RenderToTexture function for later use in a real time rendering pipeline.
