@PixelMasher Hi Tim, watched your tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVPuvCAEz4Q Very informative, I read this info here on ue4 doc: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Rendering/Materials/HowTo/EmissiveGlow/index.html At the bottom of the page: Conclusion Adding Emissive Lighting to any Material is very…
lighting channels only work with stationary/moveable lights so they don't work with anything baked, just the realtime lighting component effects channel characters/objects.
@PixelMasher Ok thanks, if the documentation is outdated, would you know if lighting channels now work with baked lighting rather than with dynamic lights? Epic should be updating their docs. @"Eric Chadwick" Could you pls move this here https://polycount.com/discussion/215223/ue4-emissive-lighting-tutorial#latest
in that scene there is a dynamic light at the end of the hall for cast shadows, but using the volumetric lightmap and capsule shadows also drives soft shadows,even without any lights in the scene, just based on the intensity and directionality baked into the volumetric lightmap. nowdays the volumetric lightmap can even…