Hey there guys. I need to create some pretty complex lighting for an indoor scene that needs to be highly photo-realistic. Although the svoti is great for color bleed and large areas of occlusion, I need something that can handle sophisticated blurred shadows. They do not need to be dynamic. I figure lighting my scene and ray racing it to create light maps in another app is the best way to go here. I am unsure if these maps can be used in version 5.4 of the engine though and if they can, how I can implement them. If anyone has some experience in this area I would be very appreciative of direction.

Thanks!

-Kyle

Edit: There is also absolutely a bug that causes a near immediate crash when using a projection light with shadows while svoti is enabled :/

Officially, the lightmap bake method was discarded in the cry engine.
Even with Svoti, raising the options and modifying the mode can yield precise results.
Try changing mode
And for more precise and detailed results, you can manually place Analytical Occluders where they are needed.

Thanks for the reply tacihon, I have looked into these options and gotten it looking very good in terms of a game but this needs to be even more photoreal than that if possible. The scene is completely static so I have opted for raytraced lighting and shadow bakeouts which I am going to implement via multiplying the shadow maps into the diffuse textures and screening the light maps into the diffuse textures to make em maps. It's certainly not elegant, but it should give the result I am looking for.

CRYENGINE 5.5 will introduce SVOGI Offline Voxelization, where you get the option to bake these into files on disk. Should be better for interior lighting.