William Faucher | Bake Lighting FASTER with GPU Lightmass - Unreal Engine 4.26 @WilliamFaucher | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
GPU Lightmass was finally included as an official release by Epic and it is a vastly superior method for baking lights compared to CPU Lightmass. This tutorial will bring you up to speed!
Baking lights has always been scary, but worry not, this video will help you from start to finish.

GPU Lightmass Documentation (READ THIS)
docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/GPULightmass/index.html

Console Command for disabling Raytracing Effects:
r.RayTracing.ForceAllRayTracingEffects 0


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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Boring (But important!) Part
02:24 - Scene Setup
07:02 - Lightmap UV's
09:04 - Lightmap Resolution
10:33 - Slow Mode Fix
12:08 - Lightmap Compression (Get Cleaner Bakes)
13:49 - Baking HDRI's (Skylight)
15:19 - Bake What You See Mode
17:31 - Bonus Tip!

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