The lights are accounted for in the baked lighting. If you add a light to an area with baked lighting, you would rebake the lighting. If you want to use static lighting, you must rebake when you add lights or it will look odd. You can add a dynamic light, which won't be accounted for in the lightmaps. Dynamic lights are…
Hi, So, I'm gathering info on Unreal workflow and one question that remains is about lightmaps. When we use lights in UE plus lightmaps, does the lights we add override or overbright the influence of the lightmaps? Does it look weird adding lights to an already light baked texture? Thx.
If you bake lighting information into textures in other programs and then try to bake lighting again within unreal, yes it could look weird. Depends totally on what your project is though as stylized stuff uses lighting info in textures and still bakes lighting in engine. I'm not sure what the "unreal workflow" is you're…