External Lightmapping Tool

Create great lighting for your Unity scenes using 3D Studio Max.

About

The External Lightmapping tool allows you to create nice looking lighting for your Unity scenes. Setup your scene inside Unity, and when you're happy with it, use the tool to create lightmaps, giving you shadows, global illumination, or whichever lighting technique you choose to use inside 3D Studio Max.

Getting Started

The best way to get started is to checkout these video tutorials: , and

Find example projects, and detailed information on how things work under the hood at Michal's website

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External Lightmapping Tool, latest release and the latest example project

Credits

The External Lightmapping Tool has been developed by Michał Mandrysz for the Unity Summer of Code 2009

Compatibility

This project is compatible with Unity 2.5.1 and up. It is not supported on Unity iPhone, alltough you could use the generated lightmaps for your iPhone project. It requires 3D Studio Max 2008 or higher.