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Fixed in 5.3.5

Votes

48

Found in

5.3.4f1

Issue ID

790006

Regression

No

[Lighting] 'Bake Direct' job failed with error code: 5

Global Illumination

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1) Download the attached project
2) Open 30HzSample scene
3) go to the lighting window and press bake
4) observe the repeating error mentioned above
5) Observe the bake job never finishes.

Expected behavior:
Scene will bake with out error

Actual Behavior:
the follwing error is shown and light baking never finishes

''Bake Direct' job failed with error code: 5 ('Failed reading Bake Visibility Buffer file.').'

Error occurs <10 seconds after baking light.

Possible workaround, delete the GI Cache.

Goto Edit > Preferences, then GI cache then 'Clean Cache'

Comments (33)

  1. Shane C

    May 02, 2016 18:40

    Updated a project from 5.3.4p3 to 5.3.4f1 and I'm getting the same thing

  2. BenPlaysport

    Apr 21, 2016 13:39

    Exactly the same problem here; happens after upgrading a project from 5.3.4f1 to 5.3.4p4.

    This is very annoying as I was only updating to the latest patch release to report another bug about lightmapping!

  3. Shawn-Halwes

    Apr 20, 2016 17:50

    Occurs in v5.3.4p3 in our project.

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