Faster lighting calculations

The new light baker uses graphics hardware to speed up lighting calculations.

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Unity Compute Light Baker selected in lighting settings

What changed

Unity feature: Unity Compute Light Baker

Unity Compute Light Baker produces baked lightmaps and probe data using compute shaders. Hardware ray tracing can accelerate the bake on compatible GPUs.

Use it

Open Project Settings > Graphics and locate Light Baker.
Select Unity Compute Light Baker, then regenerate the lighting data for the scene.

Requirements and limits

Bake results can differ from the previous light baker; lighting settings may need adjustment.