Interactive preview for GI-related Scene View Draw Modes
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Summary
Iteratively authoring and troubleshooting baked lighting data is an important use case for creators using Static Global Illumination (GI).
Intended Outcome / Use Case
For this reason, we have added a new “Interactive preview” functionality to various GI-related Scene View Draw Modes. When entering one of the relevant view modes, a contextual panel will appear in the scene view, letting the user enter interactive preview mode. This feature works similarly to the Auto Generate lighting mode (which has been removed), but is completely non-destructive, and will not affect any existing baked lighting data. This allows our users to experiment while troubleshooting baked lighting, without having to do a full On Demand rebake after each change, overwriting existing baked data in the process.