Light Baking Public C# API
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Summary
Baking lighting data is currently tied to the concept of GameObjects in scenes, which limits the Editor’s capabilities for scalable, modular & code-driven light baking workflows.
Use Case / Intended Outcome
With the Light Baking Public C# API, we provide a robust, side-effect free, and supported C# API. This lets creators define the inputs that affect a GI bake (e.g. Meshes, Transforms, Materials, Lights etc) and the outputs to generate (e.g. lightmaps and/or light probes and their individual components like irradiance, directionality, occlusion, octahedral depth etc.).
Additionally, several users will be able to use the API concurrently without state leaking through.
Some example use cases:
- Create input data procedurally and use it in the API
- Extract baked sky occlusion data and use this data for your projects
- Write baked output directly to GPU memory, without touching disk
- Write baked output data to your own data structure
- Pass baked output data for further processing in a custom system