Advanced GI with UFE (Page 1 of 2)

Save the stage in it's own scene with the lighting baked in that scene. Load the scene in addition to the main scene and it'll work the way you want.

Do you have source? Comment out the call for the stage prefab and replace it with a switch that grabs the stage name and loads the appropriate scene using LoadSceneAsync and LoadSceneMode.Additive

That's not what I'm saying.
LoadSceneAdditive loads a second scene into your current scene, along with the lighting data and so forth. Instead of loading the prefab it loads the scene instead. It's a couple lines of code inserted into the preload area of UFE.cs, and if he has source we can go further with this.

Well, if this could be shown to me, then my lighting issues are pretty much solved... I basically want to use the Unity scene on level load instead of the prefab.

What about existing cameras in these scenes?

For some of my outdoor levels, I'm using Enviro for outdoor lighting (which is awesome btw) and with this code, it should load. I already have a script that applies my skybox. And to complicate things, I have post effects profiles for each level too, so I will have to figure out how to apply this to each stage.

Maybe we can add this to the global stage options... would make this A HELL of a lot easier.

I already have and it works. This is for more or less interior levels that I can't save GI with... have you played with the Post Processing Behaviours in Unity 2017? I want to swap out profiles for each stage...

Dude, it's FREAKING AWESOME

That sucks. I'm glad I haven't tried it yet...

The UFE class is unchanged from the vanilla version. The code above is the only addition.

thank you very much

I never know how much code is ok to post, but here's my whole PreloadBattle block

public static void PreloadBattle(float warmTimer) {
        if (UFE.config.preloadHitEffects) {
            SearchAndCastGameObject(UFE.config.hitOptions, warmTimer);
            if (UFE.config.debugOptions.preloadedObjects) Debug.Log("Hit Effects Loaded");
        }
        if (UFE.config.preloadStage) {
            //#if !UNITY_EDITOR
            print(UFE.config.selectedStage.stageName + " STAGE");
            Material newSkybox = UFE.config.selectedStage.stageSkybox;
            RenderSettings.skybox = newSkybox;
            Color newAmbientColor = UFE.config.selectedStage.stageColor;
            RenderSettings.ambientSkyColor = newAmbientColor;

            switch (UFE.config.selectedStage.stageName) {
                case "Titan's Alley Clear Day":
                    print ("switch for Titan's Alley Clear Day");
                    stageScene = "TitanClearDay";
                    break;
                default:
                    break;
            }
            UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync (stageScene, UnityEngine.SceneManagement.LoadSceneMode.Additive);
            //#endif
            //#if UNITY_EDITOR
            //SearchAndCastGameObject(UFE.config.selectedStage, warmTimer);
            //#endif
            if (UFE.config.debugOptions.preloadedObjects) Debug.Log("Stage Loaded");
        }
            string p1Char = UFE.config.player1Character.name;
            string p2Char = UFE.config.player2Character.name;

        instance.StartCoroutine (instance._PreloadCharactersAsync (warmTimer));

        if (UFE.config.warmAllShaders) Shader.WarmupAllShaders();

        memoryDump.Clear();
    }

You can ignore the end, where I butcher the character loading. We have to handle characters differently so that's all changed. I also don't remember what the original code looks like, which is part of why I asked you to send me yours, but that's ok we'll work with what we have.

The important stuff is everything in the preload stage block. You can also ignore the skybox and color settings -unless- you want to set those through the editor per stage, but we can deal with that later. I used to, but don't anymore and haven't taken it out.

Abuse print statements. It will at least help me figure out where the code is getting to before doing nothing. You should probably put one in the default section of the switch, too, so you know if that's getting called ie nothing is getting called. Since I don't know where your code is not working, I'll run through the obvious fixes and we'll go from there.

Make sure your switch case is named properly in the code, or nothing will happen

Make sure your stageScene is named properly in the code, also.

Last, make sure the scene is included in your build list. Order doesn't matter, and you don't have to build, just has to be in the list

If it's still not working, try to give me a detailed post like this with some screenshots of your stage settings and the print results of your console so we can see where it's stopping, otherwise I'm just guessing.