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It's great for performance enhancement but it seems like it would never work with global illumination.

• jayd16 8y ago
  Depends what you need. Everythin including GI is baked into the mesh. If you want dynamic lights, you could try to bake a out the scene as diffuse and then again as normal maps. Then you can have simplified realitime illumination while still baking in AO, static diffuse lights, and the LODed mesh.
  • John_KZ 8y ago
    It still doesn't sound like it would work with a lot of direction-depended specular reflections or reflective surfaces.
    • bananaboy 8y ago
      You could probably bake out normals as part of the process (essentially generate a G buffer) and use that for specular type effects.