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maru:
Quickly toggle lights on/off:

Create a Layered mtl. Leave any material as the base. Add Light mtl as layer 0 material. Add some other material (e.g. standard Corona material with diffuse level 0) as layer 1. Now swap these two layers to toggle the light on/off.

maru:
Not entirely a Corona-only trick, but a neat one anyway, from PG himself!

Houssam Eddin Hammoudeh:
I try to use AO Texture in Element CTexmap by using a small radios (1.5 cm) and it gives a good results I suppose...

maru:

--- Quote from: Houssam Eddin Hammoudeh on 2019-07-24, 13:16:59 ---I try to use AO Texture in Element CTexmap by using a small radios (1.5 cm) and it gives a good results I suppose...

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Try increasing ray directionality in your AO map. It should get rid of the "wire" appearance on some objects like the tree trunk.

leitecunha:
Hi there, a little tip for game developers. In case anyone tries to use Corona to bake a lightmap, it is possible.
You have to render both these 2 render elements:

Diffuse
Diffuse Color.

The lightmap is just one divided by the other. What you gotta do is put both renders in photoshop, the one with just the Diffuse Color on top of the other. Then, on that top layer (Diffuse Color), change the blending mode to Divide. And that's it. Just merge both, and you have the lightmap, black and white, and even the color spills from other objects.

Note that in any lightmap rendering, you can render them as an HDR or a PNG (or other 8bit format). When rendering in HDR, you can set the intensity of light super high and everything will be correct, no clipping etc. But of course, on the game engine side, rendering HDR maps in realtime is overhead, specially for mobile or VR standalone (Quest).
So it's best to render the elements and save them as PNG, but in this case, first check if the light is not clipping the white values... or the final lightmix in the game engine won't be exactly correct.
One way to check if you're not clipping is to just temporarily remove the diffuse texture and render it with the white color (or lower the white to ~235, because no physical material is capable of reflecting 255, the full white).

And that's it!

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