The Lightmapper

Description

The Lightmapper is an addon for Blender that implements lightmapping and denoising capabilities for global illumination texture baking with support for 32-bit HDR Lightmaps. Baking is done through Cycles.

Development information thread here: http://forums.armory3d.org/t/hdr-lightmaps-addon/3074/6

It's free and open-source.

Features :

Cycles-based automated lightmap baking

Per-object settings and individual resolution setting

Denoising with Intel OIDN (Bundled)

Automatic CPU/GPU option and switching
Scalable lightmapping quality and resolution
OpenCV Based filtering options for post-processing
Automatic Installation for OpenCV
Direct 32-bit RGBE (.hdr) export for Armory/EEVEE/Unity
RGBM/RGBD png encoding for non-compatible engines (Godot/UE4/Etc.)
Automatic node-management (Setup, backup, restoration)

Upcoming/Todo features:

More stability
More documentation
New denoising option - NVIDIA Optix
Automated AO baking and node management
New filtering options
Equirectangular panoramic rendering with EEVEE
Cubemap panoramic rendering with EEVEE
Spherical Coefficient gathering
Additional bake-time Object/Light/World controls
Lightmap Adjustment Tools
Addon refactoring
Network Rendering
Texel Density management
UV/Lightmap Preparation tools
and more....

Installation

Installation of the addon is straight forward. Get the latest release here, and select the zip-package:

https://github.com/Naxela/HDR_Lightmapper/releases

Note! - Releases are recommended, git versions are most likely unstable

Usage

The addon consists of 2 panel for now:

The main panel located under the Render context tab controls quality and general settings for the baking process, including denoising, filtering, lightmap-location and more: