Foliage Mode Lighting Settings. UDK.

MetaAlex

Hey guys just a quick noob question. I am in final the final stages of lighting my scene in production quality. I have some foliage in my scene, and most of it is placed using the foliage mode in UDK. Just wondering what are some typical settings for the foliage for best results and quicker light building within the foliage mode settings?

I heard to only leave Cast Dynamic Shadow on as oppose to Cast Static Shadow or Cast Shadow. What would you guys suggest?

mAlkAv!An

Most importantly, set the amount of 'Instances Per Cluster' to a power of 2 value and increase the cluster radius until it won't affect the cluster count. Otherwise lightmap memory gets wasted which also increases build times.

With large amounts of foliage you should be really careful about your lightmap resolutions and keep them as low as possible.

MetaAlex

Thank you malk!I'll give this a try!