Sprites + Light = Artefacts?

[skinnytorus]

Hi, there!

I'm trying to make a cloud and light it by a directional light. Looks like things are not so simple as I first thought: lighting sprites causes artefacts (screenshot attached).

Perhaps a better solution might be to bake a light to texture and then colorize sprites by using it? As I can see, there's no obvious way to bake lights/shadows natively in Smode. Any such plans for the future?

Thank you.

[francis]

Same artefacts when disabling the Z-buffer?
About baking lights and shadows we indeed have no solution for this yet.
As a first step towards baking, we are currently working on "baking compos as videos". Once this will be working perfectly, then we'll think about other types of bakings. Could make sense to bake reflection probe maps too...

Francis.

[skinnytorus]

Same artefacts when disabling the Z-buffer?

Disabling the Depth Buffer eliminates the artefacts but makes the sprites lose 'volume'. That's why I have to keep the Depth Sorted on. With the Depth Sorted set to 'on' artefacts are there no matter if Depth Buffer test is on or off...

As a first step towards baking, we are currently working on "baking compos as videos". Once this will be working perfectly, then we'll think about other types of bakings. Could make sense to bake reflection probe maps too...

Glad to hear that, mate. Looking forward to seeing your progress.