Bake Stunning Lighting Into Real-Time Performance

Get the beauty of offline rendering at the speed of real-time. Our light baking experts pre-compute lighting into optimized lightmaps and probes — so your games, VR experiences, and ArchViz walkthroughs run buttery-smooth without sacrificing visual quality.

What We Bake

90fps

VR-Ready Performance

4K Lightmap Resolution

2K+ Scenes Baked

Game-Ready Lightmaps

Optimized for Real-Time

Maximum FPS

PixelForge

VR Studios

ArchViz Pro

MobileGames

MetaWorld

10+ Years

Baking Expertise

What is Light Baking

Pre-Computed Lighting, Real-Time Beauty

Light baking is the secret weapon of every great real-time 3D experience. Instead of calculating complex lighting and shadows on every single frame, we compute them once and store the results in texture maps called lightmaps. The result? Stunning offline-quality lighting running at game-engine speeds.

Done right, baked lighting looks indistinguishable from real-time path tracing — but runs 100x faster. We handle UV unwrapping, lightmap resolution tuning, light probe placement, and final integration so your scene looks gorgeous on any platform.

Console-Ready Quality

Mobile-Optimized

VR-Friendly

No Runtime Cost

What We Bake

Complete Light Baking Solutions

From lightmaps to probes to occlusion maps — every type of baked lighting, optimized for your platform.

Lightmap Baking

High-quality 2K, 4K, and 8K lightmaps with proper UV unwrapping, padding, and seam optimization for flawless results.

Light Probe Placement

Strategic probe placement for moving objects and characters. Smooth indirect lighting transitions across your scene.

Reflection Probes

Cubemap reflection probes baked at the right spots for realistic mirror surfaces, glossy materials, and metals.

Ambient Occlusion

Baked AO maps that add subtle shadows in crevices, corners, and contact areas for visual depth without runtime cost.

Global Illumination Bake

Indirect light bounces baked into your scene for natural color bleeding and realistic ambient lighting everywhere.

UV2 Lightmap Unwrap

Clean UV2 channels with optimal layout, no overlaps, and proper padding — the foundation of every great bake.

Use Cases

Where Light Baking Saves the Day

Anywhere real-time 3D meets a performance budget, baked lighting is your best friend. Here's where it pays off the most.

Console & PC Games

Lock 60fps without compromise. Baked GI gives you the look of pre-rendered cinematics in interactive levels.

VR Experiences

90+ fps is non-negotiable in VR. Baked lighting delivers stunning visuals with zero motion sickness.

Mobile & WebGL

Tight thermal and battery budgets demand baked lighting. Get console-quality visuals on phones and browsers.

ArchViz Walkthroughs

Real-time client walkthroughs that look like rendered stills. Perfect for property tours and design reviews.

100x Faster Than Real-Time

90fps

VR-Ready

2,000+ Scenes Baked

Our Process

How We Bake Your Lighting

A clean, repeatable workflow that delivers gorgeous baked lighting every time.

01

Scene Audit & UV Cleanup

We review your scene, fix overlapping UVs, generate clean UV2 channels for lightmaps, and resolve any geometry issues that would cause artifacts.

02

Lighting Setup & Probe Placement

We place lights, light probes, and reflection probes strategically. The right placement makes the difference between flat and stunning results.

03

Bake & Iterate

We run the bake — sometimes for hours — then review every angle. Tweak resolutions, samples, and probe density until everything reads cleanly.

04

Optimize & Deliver

Compress lightmap textures, validate frame rates on target hardware, and deliver the optimized scene file ready to ship in your project.

Engines We Support

Bake-Ready for Every Engine

Whatever engine your team uses, we know its baking quirks inside and out.

Unreal Engine

Lightmass / GPU

Unity HDRP

Progressive GPU

Unity URP

Mobile Optimized

Godot

LightmapGI

Blender Cycles

Bake Pipeline

3ds Max V-Ray

Render to Texture

Three.js / WebGL

Browser Ready

Bakery

GPU Lightmapper

Why Bake

Why Baked Lighting Wins

The benefits go way beyond just faster frame rates.

Massive FPS Boost

Lock 60+ fps on consoles, 90+ in VR, and 30+ on low-end mobile. Baked lighting is essentially free at runtime.

Offline-Quality Visuals

Path-traced beauty in real-time. Your players or clients see results that look like rendered images, not game graphics.

Lower Power Use

Less GPU work means less heat and longer battery life on mobile, Quest, and laptops. Players can enjoy longer sessions.

Mobile-Friendly

Deliver console-quality visuals on phones and tablets where dynamic GI would be impossible. Reach a wider audience.

VR Comfort

Stable high frame rates prevent motion sickness. Baked lighting is the only way to make VR worlds look this good.

Predictable Quality

No random noise, no temporal artifacts. What you bake is exactly what you ship — every player sees the same visuals.

Portfolio

Recent Baked Scenes

A selection of real-time scenes we've baked for clients across games, VR, and ArchViz.

Modern Interior

VR Walkthrough

Sci-Fi Game Level

Unreal Engine

Cathedral Tour

WebGL

Auto Showroom

Unity HDRP

"They baked our entire game level and we went from 35fps to a locked 90fps in VR. The quality actually looks better than before. Wizards."

Marcus Chen

Tech Director, PixelForge

"The lightmaps they delivered for our mobile game look like rendered cinematics. We're hitting 60fps on iPhone 12 — something we never thought possible."

Elena Volkov

Lead Dev, MobileGames Inc

"Our ArchViz client walkthroughs went from 'pretty good' to 'photo-real' overnight. The baked GI is genuinely indistinguishable from offline renders."

James Park

Founder, ArchViz Pro

Pricing

Simple, Honest Pricing

Pick the plan that fits your scene scale and target platform.

Single Scene

$299 per scene

Up to 2K lightmaps

UV2 unwrap

48-hour delivery

2 revision rounds

Most Popular

Professional

$799 per scene

Up to 4K lightmaps

Light + reflection probes

24-hour delivery

Unlimited revisions

Performance audit

Full Project

Custom

tailored quote

Multiple scenes

4K-8K lightmaps

Dedicated team

Pipeline integration

Volume discounts

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about our light baking services.

When should I use baked lighting vs real-time GI like Lumen?

Bake when your scene is mostly static (architecture, interiors, level art) and you need maximum performance. Use Lumen or RTX GI when your lighting changes dynamically (day/night cycles, destructible environments). Most projects use a hybrid — baked GI for the bulk, dynamic lights for key actors.

What lightmap resolution do I need?

Mobile games usually use 512-1024 per chunk. PC and console games use 1K-2K per object. ArchViz interiors and VR experiences benefit from 2K-4K. We tune resolution per surface based on importance — walls might be 2K while ceilings are 512.

How long does light baking take?

A single small scene takes 1-3 days including UV cleanup, baking, and iteration. Larger game levels or multi-room ArchViz scenes take 5-10 days. Rush delivery is available for time-sensitive projects.

Will my scene's UVs need to be reworked?

Probably yes for the lightmap UV2 channel — most scenes need this added or cleaned up. We handle this automatically as part of our service. Your existing texture UVs (UV0/UV1) stay untouched.

Do you offer a free test bake?

Yes. Send us a small test scene or asset and we'll bake it for free so you can see the quality and workflow firsthand before committing to a paid project.