Swarm Agent#

Swarm Agent is the client used to bake lightning in Unreal Engine. It can work without Unreal Engine installed on the machine and accept remote tasks.

Running Swarm#

Swarm launches automatically upon requesting `lightning build`_ and is available in the system tray.

The computer does not require to meet the minimum hardware requirements of Unreal Engine to run it. Swarm Agent uses CPU to bake lightning data.

Default Installation Directory#

Swarm Agent is bundled with every Unreal Engine installation on Windows and is present under

{Unreal Engine Installation Folder}\Engine\Binaries\DotNET