NWR Tool : Geometry

:: NWR :: Geometry

Select one or several pieces of geometry. Choose from options

Step A. Object

Type

Step B. World Properties

Placement

Scene : playable interactable object

Scene placement means object is in the space that's playable by players. A player can for instance, walk around an object with this placement type. Think of this as standard/conventional placement of objects in a scene. There's nothing special or novel about it - it's just to distinguish from Background placement
Background : non interactable object

Background placement means the object always appears to be in the distance. No mater how far you walk towards this object, you'll never be able to get to it. Think of this placement type as being similar to a rainbow, or mirage, in the real world - it's always visible but you can never quite get to it. This is useful for creating things in the background that always appear to be distant, like rainbows, planets in the sky, clouds, mountains, etc

Billboarding

None : Nothing special about this billboarding mode - object appears in scene as you would expect without any special behavior
Vertical : Exactly like omni, except the object is limited to rotating around a vertical axis. This means if you look at the object from top down, you'll be able to see the top of it (in the omni case, it'll face you directly from a top down view), however if you walk around it at eye level, it'll rotate on the vertical axis to face you in those cases. This can be useful for things like "cheap grass", creating a plume of grass on a vertical-billboarded card geometry which creates a glass feature thats visible from angles that give it max visual impact
Omni : This billboarding mode causes the selected object to always face the camera. No mater what angle you look at an omin billboard from, it'll be adjusted by the engine to face the player directly. This can be useful for things like dust/smoke particles, lightglows and flares, sun bursts, etc, or anything that you want to look the same regardless of the view angle. This mode is called Omni because theres no restraint on the angles or axis' that the object can be rotated on in order to face the player

Materials

Be sure the correct material is assigned

Ensure the material has been "rebuilt", or that a valid (already rebuilt) material is assigned to the object for lightmap gen

Step C. Baked Lighting

**Note : Available once Material is set

Use lowest resolution possible

Set *Quality

Mapping

CLICK *Render Lightmap

Make sure the object you're baking is the only one with that material. To check if any other meshes share that material, go to its material properties and check if there is a number next to the material name (the "2" shown below). This means 2 objects are sharing the same material, and you have to remove it from the second object

Other Notes

Apply transforms to models (Ctrl+A > All Transforms) so that the meshes don't maintain any weird transform data

If you are noticing that your materials keep getting lighter with each export, you are probably referencing the same textures you’re exporting. To remedy, make sure that you export to a DIFFERENT FOLDER than your blend file and textures.

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