Basics of VRChat world creation using Bakery Lightmapper

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A start-to-finish look at what it takes to make simple, optimized and beautiful #vrchat worlds with unity and Bakery GPU lightmapper. This video will help you get a birds eye view of the process, so you can start imagining your own project.
Remember to emphasize simplicity, you don't need complex add-ons or shaders to produce beautiful worlds. Follow up this video by learning more about UV mapping, and lightmap UVs in your 3D program of choice.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:25 - Face Orientation
03:04 - Lightmap UVs
06:30 - Setting up your scene
09:40 - Getting a blank canvas
14:00 - Introducing light
17:16 - Materials
19:01 - Light Meshes
21:00 - Testing our world
22:55 - Light Probes
25:30 - Adjusting Lightmap Scaling
26:33 - Bad results / Overlapping UVs
28:40 - Reflection Probes
30:30 - Occlusion Bake
32:10 - Upload World
33:35 - Conclusion
Bakery GPU Lightmapper (often goes on sale):
assetstore.unity.com/packages...
Example mesh used in scene, for you to follow along with:
vrcfrands.s3.amazonaws.com/ok...

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@enodoesart 14 күн бұрын

Really good stuff, thank you for covering all this technical, necessary stuff in a way that even someone who's way too tired and needing a nap can understand lol

@roartex4249 22 күн бұрын

Awesome tutorial, thank you

@ExtremeLightYT 13 күн бұрын

Your explanation is fantastic! Thanks for the great tutorial.

@vavassor 21 күн бұрын

This is so comprehensive and I like how it tackles common problems and questions along the way. The beginning could maybe use a quick mention of what lightmaps are to help lead into why we're talking about UVs or face orientation. Just that we're painting light and shadow onto the model to avoid calculating that lighting while playing. The way you're manually painting shadows at 5:53 helps clarify the idea, tho

@OkGoldVR 21 күн бұрын

@@vavassor Thanks so much! I agree, I struggled a lot with how alien the first few minutes are, before things get very simple and step by step. i spend a lot of time answering questions in the bakery discord, and made this video based on the things people get confused about most often. I hope people can use this as a starting point to learning more about creating models in Their program of choice. Appreciate your comment 🌸

@OkGoldVR 18 күн бұрын

I'm excited to post an intermediate follow up to this in September. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see covered there.

@RithrinThron 6 күн бұрын

To be blunt please no one use the blender inbuilt auto uv for anything other than a cube. It's really not setup for unity lighting. Skipping over unity's 1 click solution auto uv with a lil mention is a big missed opportunity especially for new users. Only highlight this as the amount of people I have to help with this very issue because they used blenders auto light mapper is mind boggling. Over all however good video but missing some key basics.

@OkGoldVR 6 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for watching Rithrin! When VRChat was on 2019 I was a fan of the built-in lightmap UV generation too. However since using 2022, the system frequently makes tiny islands with huge margins, requiring new instruction on using the 'Generate Lightmap UV' settings. I spend a lot of time helping people individually, and in the bakery discord, and it's an issue I see a lot. Lightmap UVs are the lifeblood of good bakes, I'd rather set people on a path where they can grow and start to take agency over lightmap UVs and manually thinking about their layout, than instructing them on how to wrangle an automatic process that they can't understand, see, or manipulate.

@RithrinThron 6 күн бұрын

@@OkGoldVR Fair enough but in that case I would point them away from both blenders auto UV and unity's. Maybe to another tutorial. The blender lightmapped is just going ruin anything with any level of curving, pillars, pillows, balls all of it. Auto stitch seam can only do so much.