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Do I need Special High End PC for Lightmapping?
HI,
I am working on a MMORPG game with huge maps (Exteriors and interiors). We are baking lightmaps with normal/ low setting but still it takes lot of time and even crashes sometimes. I wanted to know if I need a High-End PC configuration for baikng good quality light-maps or am I making some mistake. Also the baked lightmaps are very large in size (~1Gb per scene ). Is it normal?? I am attaching a snapshot of my settings. 
Thanks for the support.
No, you don't need a good computer for that. Although it will take a lifetime on a crappy laptop.
Thanks for reply.. But my current pc has nVidia Quadro k2000 and Intel Xeon E5-1607, 3.00 GHz and 16 GB Ram, Windows 7 64-bit. I don't think this is bad config. but still it takes a lot of time if I raise the setting little e.g. Baked Resolution to 32 or 40.
That's completely normal. Computing lightmaps for large or intricate scenes takes a lot of processing. Many pro studios have custom servers built just to run lightmap calculations on. So, if you're using a consumer PC, yeah, it's going to take a while. Usually you want to calculate very low-res for testing, and only calculate the hi-res ones for major updates or polishing, and I usually let the lightmap bake run overnight for good measure.
Thanks a lot @FortisVenaliter. Just the Info I was looking for. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong. Thanks again :)
Thanks a lot @FortisVenaliter for your answer. Just the info I was for looking for. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong. Thanks again :)
