Infernal Engine had an awesome unwrap feature for Lightmapping. Literally a checkbox that has to be checked and the engine does the rest. No need to setup for a 2nd uv channel and unwrap.
Probably Geomerics Enlighten... that can plug into quite a few of todays engines including UED. I agree that it can be a pretty big pain in the ass across numerous engines. Thankfully with UED, the room system they have in place is somewhat organized for lighting specific areas quickly. Obviously to use it to your…
been on both side of the fence, personally i love lighting, we used to use a render farm when i baked full GI (beast equivalent) which took alot of the hassle out of it, maybe you need better tools to manage your uvs etc, baking for me went from being an utter hassle to pretty staright forward and enjoyable process aes the…