===== Baking the lightmap =====

=== 1. Bake settings ===

In the [[wiki:tutorial:bake|Bake tab]], set the number of **Samples** to an interest value, and click the **Bake** button

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You can choose one of 4 predefined bake settings called **Test**, **Medium**, **High** and **Ultra**

=== 2. Bake jobs ===

When you click to Bake button, a bake job will send to the computer hardware. Time to finish a bake job depends on performance of your computer hardware.

You can terminate a running job by press to the cancel icon at "**Running**" line of the "//Light map bake in progress//" window.

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=== 2. Player view ===

After baking job finished, the baking result is displayed in the left area of the editor. Your model will look now a lot more realistic and this is a good time to look around again to see what could be improved.

Now switch to [[wiki:tutorial:play-and-edit-mode|Play mode]] to do experiencing your realistic 3D/VR scene.

**Next lesson**: [[wiki:intro:material|Configure materials]]