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Enlighten UE4 3.12 Documentation
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  • Welcome to Enlighten
  • How Enlighten works
  • Install and build
  • Beginner tutorials
    • See what Enlighten can do in Unreal
      • 1: Open the level
      • 2. Run the precompute
      • 3. Turn emissive materials into light sources
      • 4. Add light sources
      • 5. Understand the lighting
      • 6. Lightmaps and light probes
      • 7. Lightmap resolution
      • 8. Light probe resolution
      • 9. Efficient Enlighten lighting
    • Set up Enlighten in Unreal from scratch
  • From static to dynamic lighting
  • How actors interact with Enlighten
  • Lightmap lighting
  • Probe lighting
  • Local reflections
  • Change the lighting resolution
  • World properties
  • Level properties
  • Precompute your level
  • Enlighten light properties
  • Light reflected from the sky
  • Material properties
  • Light volumetric fog
  • Turn off Enlighten updates in game
  • Mesh destruction
  • LOD for lighting
  • Real-world sun/sky intensity
  • Collaborate on a level
  • Reserved texture samplers
  • Visualizations and statistics
  • Debug with Enlighten tools
  • Convert to vanilla UE4
  • Troubleshooting and support
  • Third-party licences
  • Release notes
    Calendars
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8. Light probe resolution

    This is the documentation for Enlighten.

    8. Light probe resolution

    Dec 22, 2020

    Enlighten automatically places light probes around actors that:

    • are lit by probes
    • have meshes
    • have the mobility Static
    1. To see where the probes are, in the Show menu, enable Enlighten > Probes.

      This shows the probes in the level.

      The actors in this level use the default Enlighten probe resolution, which is sufficient for believable indirect lighting.
    2. In the World Outliner, double-click the actor Props_Balcony_6 to focus on it.

    3. As the fire escape is in shadow, all the lighting on it is indirect light from probes. To make this easier to see, select Lighting Only.

      LitLighting onlyEnlighten indirect lighting off

       Note that the lighting on the probes around the fire escape matches the lighting on the fire escape.With Enlighten indirect lighting disabled, the area is completely in shadow. This shows that no direct sunlight from the DirectionalLight reaches the fire escape.

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