# Lightmaps / Shadowmaps / Tiled Textures

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**Created:** [May 17, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/lightmaps-shadowmaps-tiled-textures/30450 "2022-05-17T11:46:35Z")\
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Albedo is not meant for the lightmap , you assign light map to the lightmapTexture property

here is working example playground that :

1. loads a glb
2. loads and assigns an albedo texture
3. loads and assigns a lightmap

> **[Babylon.js Playground](https://playground.babylonjs.com/#0PQ67I%2316)**
>
> Babylon.js playground is a live editor for Babylon.js WebGL 3D scenes

if you open the inspector you can view the texture channels and there is a button to show the texture isolated.

The effect of the lightmap in this example is subtle but it makes a difference.

on a side note , it is possible to bake lighting into the diffuse texture , sometimes this is a viable solution and i do it myself, but you have to understand the limitations this brings. ( diffuse is not tilable when doing this for example )

Normally the lightmap texture has a much lower resolution compared to all the other channels. A little noise in this texture is even desirable 😉

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