#archived-lighting

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near bison
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Why is my wall reflecting blue light though? I have a reflection probe there. And the wall should only be reflecting the red light in the reflection probe directly in front of it, but instead it's picking up a lot of blue light from the skybox...

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You can see in the second shot when I disable reflections entirely, the wall looks as it should, for the most part.

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So in searching for the reason why I'm getting that weird reflection, I found this in the Unity docs, which may explain why my reflection probes were picking up that blue color:

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I didn't even think to click on the probes themselves because why the hell would they just ignore my skybox settings when I set the skybox to none and clear to a random blue color which happens to resemble sky instead of some color to make it obvious an error is occurring and which I could actually google and potentially get a hit on, like "why the hell is everything pink?"

fair remnant
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Hey Lighting Experts,

I have a question about the lighting in the Boat attack Example scene from de URP. How did they manage to do Realtime lighting with out creating one shadow caster? i thought that when u have realtime shadows u have shadowcaster. what kind of magic did they use?

Would love to know more about the approach, but the information is lacking.

near bison
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Is it a property of cube maps that when reflected in a plane like a window the reflection won't change as you go from looking straight on at it to an oblique angle? My reflections seem stamped onto the window more than like real reflections.

compact remnant
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I have this weird pixelation on some surfaces, does anyone know anything about this?

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I'm using real time lighting

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the worst part is, it moves as well, almost like a censoring shader effect lol

stark temple
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That's just how rasterisers work. You'll need to work around it with anti-aliasing. There's also changes to geometry that can be made to improve the situation, but it's just how it works

compact remnant
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what kind of changes to geometry would that be?

stark temple
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Removing anything unnecessary and baking maps over using geo. Textures can mip and filter at distance and so have less aliasing. If you still want that much geo up close you can LOD it. It depends on experience and what your creation pipeline looks like as to what route makes the most sense.

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Getting appropriate AA up and running is the first step to improving it

compact remnant
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sure, any tips on how to get the proper AA done?

stark temple
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Use one of the various options that come with the Post Processing Stack. All are workable and each have optimal situations and drawbacks

compact remnant
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alright, will check it out, thank you

stark temple
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@compact remnant Hey, sorry, I think I misunderstood what you were talking about.
(Someone pinged me, but I don't see their message)
It could be a number of issues and I would make sure you've narrowed it down by enabling and disabling different objects and probes, and taking a peek at the frame debugger (Window/Analysis)

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Because it could be some odd post processing artifact, strange blending of reflection probes, some weird thing to do with tiled lighting (is this HDRP?)

compact remnant
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@stark temple Hey, thanks for looking into this again

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We were still scratching our heads about it yeah lol

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This is HDRP 2019.3, but we've had this issue before with 2019.2

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It only seems to happen in HDRP as well

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We've looked at if it's caused by the reflection probes, and it's not, the artifacts remain when we disable those

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It only goes away when we disable the area lights on the ceilings and even then it's still slightly visible

stark temple
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It's interesting that because HDRP lights in tiles it's prioritising lights in this manner

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But this sounds like your issue

compact remnant
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Aha

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That looks exactly like it

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But how would we get around it? And what is a "tile" exactly?

stark temple
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You'd have to reduce the number of lights affecting your surfaces.

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Lowering the distance of your lights where appropriate is a good place to start

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HDRP comes with a new lighting architecture: It uses a hybrid Deferred / Forward – Tile / Cluster renderer. These words mean that it scales way better than built-in Unity rendering with the number of lights in the scene. This new lighting architecture is focused on performance.

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There's a debug mode you can enable to see the world like that ^

compact remnant
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Thanks a lot for the help understanding this, we've been looking around for solutions for a while and just couldn't find anything

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Now we at least know what causes it and we can hopefully work around it properly

stark temple
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All good, sorry I went to sleep thinking you were talking about something else entirely 😄

compact remnant
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It's okay! Thanks for coming back to lend help haha, I appreciate it

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I genuinely don't know who pinged you though lol

stark temple
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@near bison cheers for the ping, I too thought it was just gif compression
(I checked the mod logs :D)

near bison
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@stark temple Ah, yeah I deleted it because once I saw it was a gif, I assumed it was the compression and he just didn't do a good job circling the actual issue. I haven't used the latest versions of Unity cause VRChat is stuck on 2017 (soon 2018), so I had no idea the HDRP pipeline renders in blocks and those artifacts made no sense to me if it was being rendered with the older pipeline I'm on.

hot wharf
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Hi. Are reflection probes usually rendering the fog in a scene when baking? Because my don't and i'm wondering why..
I use 2019.3.0f1 URP with Enviro Sky&Weather and R.A.M by Nature Manufacture. I would like to bake my probes for some little lakes.

tight moss
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Hey ya'll, I'm using 2017 LTS and when I change my skybox intensity multiplier in the lighting window for my scene, it 1) doesn't do anything, 2) reverts to 1 when i load the scene

shrewd flame
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All objects are static

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After baking I got this. Does anybody know what is happening?

full kestrel
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Hi! Is it possible to process the lightmaps through some edits? Like in the shadergraph ?

full kestrel
pure totem
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what im i missing ?

pure totem
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( left - baked , right - real time )

full kestrel
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enable shadows

pure totem
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@full kestrel on the point lights or on the mesh renderer ?

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( just starting to learn about lighting )

full kestrel
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It's on your geometry if I remember correctly

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Oh. Now you say it.

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Let me open Unity 🙂

pure totem
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lol nw

full kestrel
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But basically look around for a dropdown list

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between None, Hard Shadows and Soft Shadows

pure totem
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i can see only cast shadows in mesh renderer

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nothing for hard / soft shadows

full kestrel
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Okay so prolly on the lights 🙂

pure totem
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kk

full kestrel
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Yes actually...That cant be on the mesh

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On the mesh you just choose if it will cast shadow, eventually if shadows will render from double sided geo (can be usefull for instance if your wall is just a plane!)

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Oh you want to enable Cast Shadows tho on your mesh!

pure totem
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yep i see it

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oh right

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was wondering why the result is funny

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hmmm

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same results

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i chose hard shadows for the lights

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baked mode

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that's what i get

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...

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now im puzzled

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its different from the fist screen shot above

full kestrel
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You might want to run some tests, smooth shadows, close the room, increase lightmap res, (i wouldnt think for simple pieces like this its necessary but if its super low maybe) you can pop a Light Probe as well (in fact i would do this first)

pure totem
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@full kestrel ok added those for the test

full kestrel
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any better ?

pure totem
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eh ( similar results in soft & hard shadows )

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^ baked

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not baked ⬇️

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something to do with no skybox and black light source ( environment )

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im guessing the baked result is the better one since it will let light bounce off more often

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but im after the metallic look on the none baked screen-shot

full kestrel
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give it a metal material 🙂

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thats some super strong ambient occlusion also, did you boost any of that?

pure totem
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yes , trying all the settings one by one , from what u said sounds like its the only way to go

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couldn't reproduce it

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i wonder why it looks so metal without baking

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going to try materials now 🙂

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Specular Highlight is what i am after

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seems like unity doesn't support it in baked mode

compact remnant
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hey guys, I've been trying to bake lighting for our scene to increase performance

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the performance is better, but the scene itself looks way dimmer or even just "dirtier"

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any advice would be great

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for reference, here's what it looked like before the bake:

pure totem
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just baked a level, lots of artefacts, what causes the UV's to do that ?

timber lichen
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Nice Lighting

pure totem
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i solved my issue by removing compression

pure totem
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correction : i had two different planes - distanced at 0.01 unit apart from each other - the idea was to bake multiple planes at the same time and toggle their visibility by the level - seems like the underlying planes will get this artefact regardless

wise lichen
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I am remaking some assets because the original have too high polycount. But as you can see the materials on the left don't look as good as the ones on the right.

The one on the right is lighted even from the back where the left tree is completely black. How do I fix this? Also, why does the one on the right look way more saturated and has more contrast? I use the same materials although messed with the alpha since that one didn't work in my shader.

The tree on the right uses a Hidden/Nature/Tree Creator Optimised shader. I can't even access this one so I can't use it in my remake. The tree on the left therefore uses a standard shader

acoustic hare
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is there a control on the spotlight for either how far from the origin the volumetric cone (in HDRP) starts? Or the radius of where it begins? not sure how that circle got there or what settings control it... i tried messing with all of the settings in the inspecotr..

fathom hazel
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I have a terrain lighting issue;

So, normally the game I'm working on is supposed to have cheery and bright looking terrain (Like in the first picture). On my menu scene, I got tired of it always baking and making it all dark and weird (Second picture), so I turned off Auto Generate, and did "Clear Bake Data".

Now however, it had the opposite effect; Instead of turning off baking, it broke baking for me; Now in that scene, my terrain is forever stuck with a dark and dreary look to it, even when I clear bake data! I tried turning baking back on to fix it, but now it spends 4~ minutes to bake, then gets stuck at the very last step, saying "6/11 Visibility | 1 jobs", and the baking loading bar never completes, forcing my terrain to stay stuck in this weird dark mode.

How do I get my terrain looking bright and normal again, and how do I disable the bake process without breaking everything? 😅

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(Update, I somehow got the terrain looking normally bright again... but I still don't know how to turn off auto baking without breaking it 😅

safe star
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Could someone help me please? I'm trying to make high quality realtime directional shadows in URP 2019.3

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The problem is that I often get light bleeding

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Setting cast shadows Two-side is not an option due to performance

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I've changed bias and normal bias to zero, and it looks great now. But now I get a shadow acne on all surfaces

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Looks like buggy shadow lines

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Is there a way to make it work well completely?

limber patrol
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Hey everyone, just wanted to ask, with the new Universal RP lighting for 2D what kind of terrain/landscape can we have that accepts light?

rapid tree
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all of a sudden this started happening 😦

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restarted PC to see if it would resolve.

rapid tree
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i have zero idea how this occured.. but completing deleting the scene lightmap folder worked after the pc restart.

stable patio
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Hello, is there a way to overwrite the anchor position for trees on terrain, same as you can do with ex. prefab where you choose the anchor, it does not work with terrain tho, so is there a way?

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I'm asking as I have a forest, everything looks pretty good, I have nice gradient between open field and the forest, only thing is that as the trees have their anchor somewhere in middle or on top of them, they are highly lit, looks like someone set emission on them, Would send the image but im in school rn so I can get one later today...

wispy skiff
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Hi! What is the right workflow for using the ACES tonemapping in HDRP? Should I just turn it on in the post processing and all is good, or should I be converting or treating my srgb textures somehow beforehand?

near bison
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Does anyone know what's causing my materials to look like this? I suspect it has something to do with reflection probes, or the skybox:

mortal nest
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Oh wow i probably need to turn the light count up

cyan garden
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my current version is with a spotlight attached to the player

flat lantern
warm minnow
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Hi everyone! We are currently using the new 2d Lighting Pipeline (Unity 2019.3.2f1) and I was wondering if you had any recommendations on how we can optimize them. We have 4 lights in our scene at the moment and adding them makes our FPS drop from 100 to 40 or so.

cyan garden
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why does the wall not stop the light ?

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I mean why is the floor on the other side of the wall illuminated by the light

young vale
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Can anyone help with a problem I'm having? it goes like this, when I'm baking the lights and have set the thing a want light to be baked on then when i bake it, it says this to one of the objects: Object's size in lightmap has reached the max atlas size.
Ill be so happy if anyone could tell me how to fix it.

timber lichen
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@cyan garden Off the top of my head, make sure the wall is marked as static (top right of inspector), also try making the wall material double sided, if that doesnt work make sure shadows are enabled for the light?

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Hi all, new developer here,

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Having trouble with my lighting, anyone know how to increase the distance the camera renders volumetric lights at? also cant remember the setting to make them softer so they dont look spotty if anyone can remember?

cyan garden
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@timber lichen Thanks you that worked 🙂

timber lichen
timber lichen
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@young vale Try this: find the model the error is referring to (should tell you hopefully in the error which model it is), click the model and inside the inspector in the "Model" tab at the bottom should be the "Generate Lightmap UV's" setting, check that box, then expand the "Advanced" arrow beneath it, you will see a setting called "Pack Margin", try putting that up to 10 or 20 (dont worry, if it's too high Unity will automatically scale it down for you). See if increasing the pack margin helps you :). @cyan garden No problem, glad I could help 🙂

young vale
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@timber lichen thx ill try it out ^^

timber lichen
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@young vale If that doesnt work, try finding the "Scale in Lightmap" setting, it used to be under the lighting section of the Mesh Renderer of the object in the inspector but it's disappeared for me on HDRP so they may have removed it somehow, you'll have to ask someone a bit more experienced where they moved it to unless it's a HDRP thing 🙂

timber lichen
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@young vale That, on the right hand side: "Scale in Lightmap". Thats what your looking for

young vale
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I have one question to that, what version are you using cause i don't have that 😅

timber lichen
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oh, im on 2019.3.3f1

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HDRP

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Make sure your clicking on the Geometry INSIDE the model, not the model itself, for example in my screenshoit Vehicle_HoverCar_B is the model, and im highlighting the geometry inside it

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if your looking at the model in the project tab, then click the little arrow next to the model, and it will expand to show you all the geometry inside

maiden gazelle
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not sure if this is the right channel, but im using the physically based sky and my normals all reflect this ugly tan color instead of the proper tint. Does anyone know how to fix them?

steel verge
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I am having a texel validity issue under a table. How should I fix it?

runic gale
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is there a way to predefine ambient lighting as an asset so i can swap between them? i want one for night and day but i do not wanna use 2 separate scenes

atomic jackal
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can someone tell me about why there's no shadow cast on the floor...?

steel verge
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too many questions, too little answers. 🙂

I suppose you can switch ambient via script?
I would not touch the ambient color.

I would do that through post.

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E.L. I can see shadows in your scene.

bitter peak
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Hey can someone point me in the right direction for making a flash effect? like a tiny explosion when a bullet hits something, but i dont really need particles, i just it to flash for half a second 🙂

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just tell me what system to use so i know what to google 🙂

bitter peak
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right now im using a particle effect that spawns a couple of bright standard particles in a circle, is that the normal way to go?

knotty mural
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How would I fully lighten a gameobject with no dark sides on it

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Im trying to do this for my cloud

summer aspen
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You can use Unlit shader variant to ignore lighting

knotty mural
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thanks!

placid swallow
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Hey everyone :)

I am working on a game, and I want to have it so the enemies, player, and walls of the levels (generated at runtime) glow and illuminate the dark parts of the level. So for instance: The player emits a blue light, and the floor and walls near them now have blue light on them. How would I do that?

I am using the URP at the moment, and it seems emissive materials don't illuminate the level, at least in real time on non static objects.

atomic jackal
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@steel verge right I'm rebaking the ao map and I'm bosting the light I'v use in scene

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this is my first ever scene project, and I think that's good enough for earn me a grade for an intro class project, it's due Monday, and that's the best I can do in 2 weeks.

dry abyss
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Does anyone know why my static objects flicker as my camera moves around? It is also the shadows it puts off that flicker and vibrate

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I read somewhere that it has to do with clipping planes, but maybe someone here will know for sure

foggy quail
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Hello! Noobie question here

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When creating a new project using the 3D preset, when I put a cube into my scene the shading on the objects is way too bright/dark

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is it because of the render pipeline I'm using?

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I have a directional light

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(which is the one that comes by default ofc)

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It seems like my directional light is different to Brackeys'

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I don't have the "baking: realtime" property

upper saddle
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If you bake the scene the shadows will turn lighter, non baked scenes are super dark by default @foggy quail

pure totem
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made a prefab baker into an editor

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maybe you will find this useful

timber lichen
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if im getting Object Size in Lightmap has reached Max Atlas Size on all my meshes, do I go through them all and adjust the scale in Lightmap paramiters or is there a setting I can tweak to eliminate the problem without dropping the scale in lightmap?

minor ingot
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anyone have tips for lighting + probuilder mesh?

  1. i have original fbx (which i assume have issue)
  2. a probuilder object with component (i call this dynamic probuilder)
  3. then i save it as probuilder prefab and replace the one in scene (so it is no longer dynamic)

i have issue where it look like the lightmap UV is overlapped (weird lighting) but i already fixed the UVs (using probuilder UV editor while im in step 2)
but the lighting problem still persist

do i need to start again from step 1 (it is kinda big fbx model)
because the one that needed probuilderize was just small subset of the big mesh

timber lichen
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So I have a lot of meshes that are giving me the "Max atlas size reached" message, before I go through them all and tweak the Scale in Lightmap settings (as suggested in other posts) should I be changing all these meshes or can I increase the Atlas size so I dont have to change the meshes? Is it even worth doing considering they are reworking Realtime GI?

hot mist
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I hope this is the right channel, I'm pretty new to Unity and I'm having trouble with basic lighting. Every beginner tutorial I've looked at has a skybox and basic lighting without having anything in the hierarchy, like as soon as they open a new project. I've enabled the skybox but to get similar lighting I have to put in a point light and even then I end up with no shadows. One tutorial I saw generates a directional light automatically once they make the first 3D object like a plane or sphere. This is probably really simple but I'm still getting familiar

hot mist
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Also it didn't make a difference, I still have no shadows. I really have no idea what I've done wrong, I haven't changed anything since installing 😦

hot mist
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Ok so for some reason I had 2018.4.f1 installed and it was telling me there was no updates, but I redownloaded unity hub and installed 2019, which has fixed some of the issues but it still looks nothing like the default scenes in many tutorials, like that sort of soft blue lighting here

trail pelican
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You need to bake lights, even if you don't use lightmapping

cyan garden
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I'm using an Area Light attached to my player to get that darkness/shadow effect, but that prevent him to have an actual regular body shadow. Any idea how I can have one on top of the Area Light effect ?

minor bobcat
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Hello,
I'm using the URP in 2019.3
and I'm trying to bake the lightmap to use mixed lighting.
Using Progressive (CPU and GPU) I keep getting this kind of black holes artefacts. I didn't find a way to remove them, i tried the number of samples, the denoising, using higher or lower lighmaps resolution (I sticked to 8, the scene being quite large).
I also tried toggling the compression on and off. And I'm still getting this issue.
I tried using enlighten and didn't got these kind of artefact, but its way to slow for a small part of our game.
I looked around on the forum but no one seems to have a solution for this.
Any idea or suggestion ?

mystic dew
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@minor bobcat did you tried disable filtering and denoisers?

minor bobcat
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i tried without denoiser and it did the same result but sharper. I will try without filtering.

mystic dew
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@minor bobcat try bake light with smaller amount of texels?

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if your current texels set at 40, try bake with 20 or 10

minor bobcat
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its set at 8 right now, i baked them at 4 aswell , (and 40 before)

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it doesnt make a single difference

mystic dew
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your objects has enabled UV ligthmap generation?

minor bobcat
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yes

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Generated with default unity settings

mystic dew
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@minor bobcat are you use GTX card? I just remember that lates Nvidia drivers broke a bit GPU baking

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but you get same result on CPU baking too

minor bobcat
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Without denoising

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its looking way better

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noisy but no artefact

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hum

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(denoising / filtering)

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i use RTX 2080

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After some test it seem related to Nvidia Optix, using openImageDenoiser doesnt give me the issue.
Thank you.
🙂

mystic dew
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no, probelm @minor bobcat

meager thistle
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Anyone here able to comment on whether using mip mapping for light maps is good or bad?

Reason I am asking is that I currently have a brushed metal surface baked in a scene using Bakery (which allows me to setup baked normals into the light map). It does a great job baking an all, but the default for lightmaps is no mips. This causes this surface to look noisy and broken at a distance.

If I enable mips it goes away as one would expect. I've never done this with a light map though so I'm curious whether anyone can say yes or no to this idea and why. Like maybe some seams somewhere else will get messed up or something?

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^up close versus distant with no mips

velvet flare
sour blaze
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Hello, I am new to lighting in Unity. I am using the Universal Render Pipeline(URP) and would like this results
What I want, MagicaVoxel:

runic sparrow
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easy enough, make sure you're in linear color mode. Add some post and do some color correction and add a plane under the main base 🙂

steel crescent
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Good evening,
I do not know why he does this to me, but after bake lights, all the lights go out and nothing can be done with them, just to clear the baked lightmap. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I've tried to solve it several times, but I've never been able to, but now it's really necessary to start solving and we are still stuck on this problem. Can anyone advise me what I'm doing wrong? Or if I have something wrong set up or something? I using HDRP
thank you very much

1st pic before bake
2nd pic after bake

earnest silo
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I’m new to making stuff in unity so I’m sorry for my stupid question.. perhaps you guys can help me out.
I’m currently tryna make a small living room box and I want it to have light inside.. like a general light no spotlight or anything.. just normal light. But when I was testing out the scene, the light was bleeding out the walls. Like I can see the light coming through the walls.. But how I want was to keep the light contained within the living room. And also when I was walking away from the living room, I can physically SEE the light and I don’t want to see a white ball of light in the distance.
Perhaps somebody here can help a person out? I’ll deeply appreciate it.

acoustic hare
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i've got a directional light with shadows enabled that is creating these weird artifacts where the ceiling meets walls... anyone have any idea how to make this go away? i'm using HDRP btw

acoustic hare
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hmmm changing the shadow resolution to High fixes it, but i wonder if there is another setting i could use... like shadow distance or something?

latent scroll
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Hello, anyone would know how to prevent the light from going past the "walls" ?

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The floor and walls are tilemap

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I added SpriteDiffuse on them

latent scroll
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Ok I'm now trying to do it with a 3D object to cast a shadow

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But still stuck, the objet is not casting a shadow on the tile map while the tile map has the "receive shadows" checked

latent scroll
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Ok it's all good, I had the quality settings set on "no shadows" 😄

meager thistle
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hmmm changing the shadow resolution to High fixes it, but i wonder if there is another setting i could use... like shadow distance or something?
@acoustic hare changing some of the parameters of the light like bias, etc. can help. Is the geometry there just planes? Those are typically bad for light leaks. You can try extending the ceiling a little past the wall geometry

timber lichen
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Can somebody help me? So I put a point light on the white box and everything around the box is lit but the box is not so it's black now ...

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Sorry about my english

meager thistle
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@timber lichen are the boxed marked as lightmap / static? (depending on editor version)

timber lichen
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I don't really know... How can i check if it is?

meager thistle
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Click on one of them to make them active in the inspector, then check the little dropdown in the top-right corner

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When you click it, it will roll out with various static flags, one being lightmap / GI static

timber lichen
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Ohh thanks so much!!!

meager thistle
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👍

timber lichen
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Also what skin are you using?

meager thistle
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no worries. Let me know if that helps (might need a rebake

timber lichen
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its different than the default one

meager thistle
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It's the Unity Plus dark theme

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in 2019.3

timber lichen
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oh i use pro

meager thistle
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If you have Pro you should have that

timber lichen
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thats why its different

meager thistle
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but my UI may look different bvecause they overhauled it in 2019.3

timber lichen
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oh k

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thanks

steel crescent
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@meager thistle Hi, please help me to? I wrote problem in 3 days ago, thanks

timber lichen
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oof bake time is 10 minutes

meager thistle
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Good evening,
I do not know why he does this to me, but after bake lights, all the lights go out and nothing can be done with them, just to clear the baked lightmap. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I've tried to solve it several times, but I've never been able to, but now it's really necessary to start solving and we are still stuck on this problem. Can anyone advise me what I'm doing wrong? Or if I have something wrong set up or something? I using HDRP
thank you very much

1st pic before bake
2nd pic after bake
@steel crescent is any of the geometry surrounding the lights set to lightmap static?

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far better than Unity stock baking and crazy fast (especially if you have RTX card)

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Although 10 minutes isn't bad for a bake. Before Bakery, or even the GPU version of their lightmapping, scenes could take like hours to days to bake 😛

steel crescent
meager thistle
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Were those static flags already on before the bake?

steel crescent
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Yes

meager thistle
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Is that geometry custom on not Unity primitives?

steel crescent
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What do you exactly mean Unity primitives?

meager thistle
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Like just basic cubes and stuff when you ight-click and create 3D > (shape)

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i.e.) did you make the geometry outside of Unity in an external modeling app?

timber lichen
steel crescent
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I don't know, I modeled it as my first model ... But there's UVMap over blender and other models too

meager thistle
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@steel crescent did you make a UV2 for the models? If not, check the model file from Unity and in the import dialogue window, enable generate lightmaps

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@timber lichen if you're going to be doing a lot of a baking, it's totally worth it. Results are way better than stock Unity as well. Scenes that would probably take 1 to 2 days (if they would even bake in Unity) take me 30 minutes on a RTX 2080 card

steel crescent
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@meager thistle I think that UV2 not created, I in blender totallly noob ... You think this option?

meager thistle
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Yes, that is the one 😄

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Should hopefully resolve that

steel crescent
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Okay thanks as soon as I try and give feedback. I also hope it helps because I have been dealing with it for at least 3-4 months and we have never found a solution.

meager thistle
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I'm assuming it should. If you bake something without UV2, it ends up being black typically.

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If not, ping me again and I'll see what else we can maybe try 😛

steel crescent
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Thank you very much, I will definitely let you know even if it works fine 🙂

meager thistle
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👍

steel crescent
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@meager thistle So it helped, but only a small part ... it creates me just a lightmap of directional light (from additional light due to debug) and the other (lights from the torches) it does not take at all
before all scenes was black

meager thistle
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Can you confirm that all of the lights are set to baked?

Easily done going from the menu bar Window > Rendering > Light Explorer. Check the mode of all of the lights showin in the Lights tab whether they are baked vs realtime

steel crescent
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I think that is okay

meager thistle
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Hmm, because looking at the image you posted a while back (first one I posted above) has a source there, but in the second image from your recent bake it's not illuminating anything

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Where the lightmap flags enable for that geometry, or maybe not all of the models had their generate UV2 enabled from the import dialogue?

steel crescent
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Yes before it did not take any light, after checking to generate UV lightmaps it takes but only from directional light, but these point light on torch does not take

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And yes, all the models I have currently used in the scene have been set to generate UVlightmaps

meager thistle
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@steel crescent what layer is the geometry on? I noticed that in one screen, the selected light item is set to Items

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Your UI looks a little different, but if you open up the Shadows panel in the light inspector, can you confirm that the culling is set to either everything or at least the same layer as the geometry?

steel crescent
meager thistle
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^ can you double check in the static drop down that the lightmap flag is enable? That dash in the static box means there are mixed flags

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(top-right again)

steel crescent
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Map (labyrinth) and walltorch and other I set Static same

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Lights must be set to?

meager thistle
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Lights don't necessarily need to be set to any flags since the baked enum in the component will handled it. Can you grab a screenshot of a piece of geometry that isn't lit with it's inspector window from the editor?

steel crescent
meager thistle
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could you click on this wall item here?

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Then show me the screenshot of the inspector window on the right

steel crescent
meager thistle
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Can you go down a level in the hierarcher until there is mesh filter component

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like through the child object

steel crescent
meager thistle
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And that is for the wall geometry? Can you expand the material at the bottom of that last view? Looks highly reflective and possible metallic

steel crescent
meager thistle
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Hmm, I'm a little unfamiliar with HDRP for the time being. But this is what is applied to the wall geometry?

steel crescent
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What exactly do you mean by "this"?

meager thistle
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Oh, there, that's the right one

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I was a little confused since the material in the last window was m_torch

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^ this may be why it's black since it's reading the wrong light data

steel crescent
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But I checked Generate lightmaps

meager thistle
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^ click on this item to jump to the mesh item for this one, then go to the parent and confirm

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the auto generated UVs shouldn't be overlapping (not intentionally)

steel crescent
meager thistle
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Hmm

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Anyway you could eport this scene in a UnityPackage. Might be easier to view for me

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you can leave out the texture files to save on package size

steel crescent
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And how to make a package? I have never done that

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And can't there be a mistake in setting up the lights? Or its all right?

meager thistle
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The lights looks fine as they are set to baked which is rendering them in the lightbake. To me it seems like alightmap static flag for something isn't being enabled for some of the geometry. and taht one error for the overlapping UVs is making me suspicious of something

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to export, you will need to locate the scene file from the Project window. then right click > export package

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should find the dependencies for it

steel crescent
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If I choose a prefab, will the scripts come with it?

meager thistle
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You'll need to double check that in the export window. I probably don't need the scripts since I'm not running any of the game. I'll just be looking at the config of the scene and models

steel crescent
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I checked items which I think you need

meager thistle
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👍

steel crescent
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@meager thistle PM

wispy skiff
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Hey! I can't seem to find the "Reprojection for volumetrics" checkbox in the HDRP asset. I've found and unchecked it for many projects before. Unity documentation shows that it's under "Default Frame Settings" now, but I just can't see that in my HDRP asset. Is it moved?

EDIT: I found the option in the HDRP Default settings in Project Settings. Still would like to be able to check it in the actual HDRP asset in the inspector, though.

sinful goblet
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Guys, i need help

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i have problem with Progressive GPU Lightmap baking

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when i start baking lightmaps by my GPU

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after a while, it shall be switched to the CPU

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after that, i got 100% usage of CPU and i can't turn off Unity

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any idea what can i do whit that?

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ping me plox

woeful prism
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hey gang, simple question

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in 2019, with URP...is there any other way to "exclude" objects from lights besides Culling Masks / Layers?

teal stratus
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@sinful goblet can you send a screenshot of your console? it is sometimes related to the vram of your graphics card and the lightmap resolution you set

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if its too high it cant allocate too much vram usage so it switches to cpu automatically

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and that is waaay slower than gpu,and slows down your pc

sinful goblet
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so... what should i do?

teal stratus
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reduce the lightmap resolution in the lighting panel.... or get a better graphics card

sinful goblet
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I have 1060 6 GB lol

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and my Lightmap resolution is 512x512

teal stratus
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lul

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i had those problems when i had a 1060 3GB

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now i have a 2060

carmine oyster
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hey everyone, sorry to sound complete noobish, but is there a good tutorial / video / article i can read that kinda goes step - by - step in detail and explains the different kind of lightings.
I am trying to play around and create some scenes based on some photos i took, and im kinda having problems with some objects.
Problems like they dont seem to really light up properly according to the scene, or they dont really cast a shadow properly.

😕 The unity lighting one is not really sufficient enough imo

meager thistle
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Looking for recommendations as to what people decide to do for UV2s when an object is slightly larger than your target texel density + atlas size will allow.

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^ I'm working on a fairly large scene so I'm aiming for a modest texel density of 5.12 px / cm.

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Would you just bite the bullet and crush it down to fit and disregard aiming to be uniform across all UV2s?

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Like worst case I could lop off a few rows to tuck beside it and split the mesh + UVs across two submeshes

velvet cradle
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are there any good resources for learning about how the lightmap system works under the hood? like, for example, how are lightmaps divided into textures, how do models know which texture to access, how are lightmap UVs stored, stuff like that?

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I'd also really like to have a more complete understanding about that kind of thing for shadowmaps

timber lichen
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hello,
i've gone and baked the lightmap for this room (probuilder) and this is the result.. what's going on?

sweet arch
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Does anyone know how to get high quality lighting

sweet arch
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Nevermind

astral idol
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I get OpenCL error when using Progressive GPU lightmapper. I saw this answer my gpu has 2 gb vram. Can i force Unity to work on even lower Vram?

fair moth
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is there an under-the-hood method of determining how much light is striking a given shader?

opal tiger
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Hi everyone, when I open a scene, the Editor becomes unbearably slow. Profiler says it's GISceneManager. When I google about this, the supposed solution is to turn off Auto Generate, but it was never turned on in the first place. I checked and then unchecked it to be sure, but that didn't work. Any ideas?

timber lichen
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I already backed lighting

summer aspen
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shader material has to support shadows

timber lichen
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Its the standard material of URP?

summer aspen
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Weren't you installing HDRP?

timber lichen
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Yeah, I did but just for taking a look at it

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Its not what I need

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Now Im trying to change from the basic renderer to this one since I readed that this one will be the standard in a future

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Btw, I found it now, in the mesh renderer there is a cast shadow option. It is on by default but not on this models (I guess because upgrading)

thick haven
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Could anyone help me with lighting for a level? The entire level I built is made out of entirely prefabs and im stuck.

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First time making something on Unity.

tame marten
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what do you need help with? Are you asking someone about lights? or how to build a level?

thick haven
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I'm following a tutorial on lighting. Setting a material with emission. I selected all of the models to be baked for the light but they ended up all splotchy. I looked up how to fix it and it said to use Generate UVs but prefabs don't let me access the models tab.

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I basically made the entire level out of Prefabs and using the predefined lights are terrible.

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I just want to know if there's a way i can get lighting without having to redo the entire level

rose hamlet
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Hey. I am trying to get reflective puddles for my scene so i made a reflection probe. I followed a youtube tutorial and did everything the same but now my scene looks like this. The puddles work but everything else is just bright yellow can anybody help me with this please?

wispy skiff
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@thick haven You should be able to access the model tab if you go into the prefab by double clicking it

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Otherwise, you can make custom lightmaps in the second uv set

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@rose hamlet Are you sure you didn't accidentally apply that yellow emissive material in the project window to those meshes?

rose hamlet
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no, because when i move the projection probe away it all becomes normal again @wispy skiff

wispy skiff
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Hmm, can I see the reflection probe tab for that probe? And also the material tab for one of those meshes

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Or their inspector tabs, I mean

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@rose hamlet

rose hamlet
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ok i'll send the pictures its gonna take some time im new to unity

wispy skiff
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No worries. Use Ctrl - Win - S for small screenshots

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if windows 10

rose hamlet
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and i dont know how to show the meshes with their mats

wispy skiff
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What is the intensity of those windows? It might be that it's in the HDR range (above 255 in color), and that the reflection probe has caught those high values

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And also, your house material probably has a high smoothness, so try lowering that

rose hamlet
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ok yeah i see on the yellow emission material that its hdr

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how do i get rid of that

wispy skiff
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You don't have to get rid of it, but you have to use it with care. Try and set the color to no higher than 1, and stay within the color box to start

rose hamlet
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you mean i should stay under an intensity of 1?

wispy skiff
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There's also a bar under the color box which increases the intensity to outside of the color box, so make sure that one is 0 unless you're sure that you're going to go above 1

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Oh yeah, are you using the intensity checkbox instead of just color for emissive?

rose hamlet
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this is the material

wispy skiff
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Try setting that to 0 actually. But it's not as high as I thought. It may be fine with those values if the material on the building has a lower smoothness

rose hamlet
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ITS THE LIGHTNING

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ok

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the yellow is gone now

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but its blue because of the other emission mats

wispy skiff
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Sounds like you got it!

rose hamlet
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Thank you!!

wispy skiff
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What was it exactly? The lighting?

rose hamlet
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i think the high intensity of the emission mats were the problem

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im setting them all to 0.6 and then ill bake again

wispy skiff
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Nice!

rose hamlet
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It works!

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Thank you a lot

wispy skiff
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No prob!

rose hamlet
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can you help me make my puddles look more puddely? @wispy skiff

wispy skiff
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Can I see a screenshot?

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@rose hamlet

rose hamlet
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they are to smooth for my taste

wispy skiff
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Look alright to me, for a stylized environment. But how much 3D do you know? Some kind of animated normal map might be what you're looking for

rose hamlet
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i am kinda good with blender so i could try animating some water

wispy skiff
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Maybe you want them to also show a bit of the surface underneath, otherwise they appear very deep like a lake

rose hamlet
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yeah how do i make them translucent

wispy skiff
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Which render pipe are you using?

For transparency, there should be a "surface type" option in the material tab. Set it to transparent, then adjust the alpha in the color

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Oh "rendering mode", not "surface type"

rose hamlet
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where can i see my render pipeline?

wispy skiff
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You picked it at the start, when creating the project: Standard, Universal or HDRP.
Otherwise, you can see it under Edit > Project Settings > Graphics

rose hamlet
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It says "None"

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Thats bad right

wispy skiff
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That probably means you're using standard pipeline. And it also means you can't use shader graph, in which you could create some simple water. But I think you can use shaderforge for it, although I'm unfamiliar with that. A discussion better had in the shader group

rose hamlet
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cant i change the pipe anymore?

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i have no knowledge about how shaders work in unity whatsoever

wispy skiff
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Hm, maybe you can. You can download any of the pipes via Package Manager. I would recommend Universal for your project. Once you have the render pipe asset down, you pop it in there. I'm unsure if that's all there is to it

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You'll need to run a conversion on your materials too

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But backup your project before any of that

rose hamlet
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ok well im part of a team wotking on something so we all have to do that together

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so i wont do that now

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thank you a lot tho. thats all i need for now

wispy skiff
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Yeah, then definitely stay in the current pipe. Still, shader forge should be available for some simple shader production in the standard pipe. Good luck!

rose hamlet
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thank you!

thick haven
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I asked around on Reddit and found that prefabs have nothing to do with Generating UVs, and that the meshes on them is what I should be looking for.

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It seems that the asset pack i was using had the raw mesh data as .asset files.

fluid sapphire
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Is safe to ignore LightingData and ReflectionProbe files from git?

fiery mist
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Hello! I didn't do enough research before switching to URP for the first time and didn't realize point lights would be unable to cast shadows. The solution I found from Googling is out of date, is there a cheap shortcut for enabling point light shadows in the URP?

cosmic breach
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Does anyone by chance know what might be causing these white lighting artifacts? URP 7.3.1 and baked lighting

wispy skiff
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@cosmic breach Did the bake finish, or is that mid-bake? Does the mesh have custom lightmap uv's, or generated in Unity?

obtuse sapphire
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Hey all. I have several 'levels' in one scene. (a few static objects and a single light)
Is there a way to bake each of these lights only for its corresponding 'level' ?
e.g. by using something like the light radius?

wispy skiff
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@obtuse sapphire You can try light layers or render layers. It's handled a little bit differently depending on which pipe you're using. I'm unsure if baked light pays attention to light layers or not, though

obtuse sapphire
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I will give that a try, thank you!

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(currently using the built-in forward renderer)

carmine oyster
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hmm after latest update i opened my project again and none of the HDRI settings are working :/ there is no light no shadows no nothing all is just default, trying to change skybox material or light source , delete lightmap nothing works

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project has no errors :/ tried to reimport everything generate new lightdata and autogenerate closed and reopened project, changed the version

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nothing

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just poof 😄

cosmic breach
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@wispy skiff It did finish baking, and the UV's were generated by Unity. I increased the Direct Samples, Lightmap Resolution and Size and let it bake overnight and that seemed to have removed the issue

sterile oxide
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Hello! I've been having this issue when I bake lighting in this one scene for days now. No idea what's causing it. Does this look familiar to anyone?

wispy skiff
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It looks like the raycasts are being negated due to backfaces

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The engine validates which rays to keep and which to discard depending on what kind of surface it hits, and it it's in a place it thinks doesn't matter, it'll go through it fast and make something like this. Either you can go and check these settings in a Lightmap Parameters profile, or make sure your planes are not being treated as backfaces

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@sterile oxide

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ALSO, since those wall pieces look like they all have the exact same bake on them, I assume that structure is all one combined mesh with overlapping UV's. So you want to generate light map UV's in Unity, that are not based on the texture UV's, or make custom ones in the second uv set

sterile oxide
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Thanks for the response, I'll look into it. Everything has generated lightmap UVs, but even meshes that aren't combined or stretched are affected.

wispy skiff
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It's a bit hard to tell what the meshes actually look like, but are you baking double sided planes there? I think even a UV generated in Unity still makes only a single UV for a double sided, so that may be part of it as well @sterile oxide

sterile oxide
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They're not planes, they've got depth.

swift ingot
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Hi guys, I'm new on unity, this is my frist game ever, in my project I used 2d lights and everything was fine. Then I create a simple menu, with canvas, panel and some texts. How can I apply a 2d point light on mouse cursor to light up just a part of my menu?

carmine oyster
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hmm after update 🙂 wondering what has happened

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i took the newest version of HDRP via package manager 😮 but stuff still so broken

full kestrel
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Evening everyone ! How can I change an asset Lightmap resolution / size directly in the library so it applies everywhere I'll use it rather than doing it asset - per - asset ? thanks

full kestrel
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got it ! gotta make it a prefab and place that prefab

leaden stump
summer aspen
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Having some ambient lighting will soften them up

compact remnant
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any way I can make these lines on the shadows less obvious? they mostly appear on flat surfaces like this puddle (which is flat on the normal map)

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it's the heightmap causing it, I just noticed

timber lichen
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is there a way to make my 2d scene dark and have like a point light at the player or smth without rendering pipeline? because rendering pipeline seems to disable post processing which is extremely important especially for my particular game

edgy geode
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if you are not seeing anything affected by a light source, is there any reason to explicitly disable them, or does unity automatically not process them ?

stone mango
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@weak plume here ya go, bud!

pallid osprey
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o/

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anyone on 2020 beta?

timber lichen
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No. I have 2019.2 :'(

pallid osprey
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everything was fun and cool but past 3 hours have been twilight zone because lights dont work like they did

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unity is cruel

pallid osprey
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is it me or do cookies disable diffuse lighting?

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its as if an area light turns into an emissive mesh once a Cookie texture is applied

pallid osprey
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ill just bloom everything until the whole screen is one color

timber lichen
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Nice

pallid osprey
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argh

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and emissive color is unlinked from color.. why

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oh thats because area light has a mesh with a shader.. ok

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still feels broken..you change the area light color and it overwrites the emissive color of the shader..yet the emissive map remains

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emissive map has no effect on diffuse..

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hopefully an emissive map can be averaged to set the diffuse color

hard hemlock
earnest silo
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Im new to Unity..
so my environment is all blue cosmos kind of theme but I have a room inside where its lit up.
But when I added markers into the room, the markers are darken by the outside environment. But I added a light inside the room so it should be hitting the markers.
Is there anything I can do ?

obtuse sapphire
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@hard hemlock No lighting expert here, but you could try ambient occlusion.

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@earnest silo Do you mean they are just rendered completely black? I'm assuming the markers aren't static?

earnest silo
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they are not static. and they are just darkened by the environment. BUt i added lights in the room to make it look lit up.
but....~
the markers are in the outside's environment light

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sort of thing.

obtuse sapphire
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do you have any ambient light set up?

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is the light that is supposed to illuminate the markers a realtime/mixed/baked?

hard hemlock
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Yeah AO helps a little but I think I might need a secondary directional light or something. No sure if that's a good thing to do though.

earnest silo
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i feel like adding another light will make it unoptimized.

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@obtuse sapphire Im sorry i dont really know where to find if its Ambient Light.
Im still really new to unity LOL idk shit

obtuse sapphire
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that's alright. Check the lighting window (window - rendering - lighting settings) and check the scene tab. try adjusting the Environment Lighting variables, in particular the intensity multiplier

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@hard hemlock I think you'll get much better results once you start applying different materials to the blade and handle

fervent turret
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Hi, I don't understand how 2D lights blend mode work in URP... I set it to Multiplicative, thinking that the behaviour of 2 light sources with an intensity of 1 would result in an intensity of 1 but instead my sprites are burned

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and this is the setting in the URPAsset

fervent turret
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nevermind, I think I understand my bias. I'm thinking "multiply lights" where it actually means "multiply colours".
However my question becomes this: how can I prevent lights from ever burning my sprites?

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I guess one answer could be to use a custom shader, but I was wondering if there's a solution without changing all my models who are currently using URP/2D/Sprite-Lit-Default

turbid plank
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Does anyone know what i am doing wrong here, the object is in obj format and having some weird lightmap baking issue i dont know how to fix (im relatively new to unity) but other objects which were created in unity and blender seem to be fine.

timber lichen
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how can i get rid of skybox lighting going through meshes?

hazy oxide
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Hi. In terms of saving the engine from doing extensive work, what is the best method of lighting a large interior scene for VR?

mossy mesa
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Hi. In terms of saving the engine from doing extensive work, what is the best method of lighting a large interior scene for VR?
@hazy oxide I would like to know that too 😄

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Does anyone know what i am doing wrong here, the object is in obj format and having some weird lightmap baking issue i dont know how to fix (im relatively new to unity) but other objects which were created in unity and blender seem to be fine.
@turbid plank
Try enabling Generate Lightmap uvs in model import settings and check lightmap size in lightmap view and play with that value if first thign doesn't work.

hazy oxide
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@mossy mesa Check recent conversation in VR chat further down the chatlist. Got some feefback on it there.

meager hare
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Can anyone help me out?

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My walls are bleeding sunlight after several methods of blocking sun

meager hare
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Sort of got it workin

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but I got confused again

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out of all the wall

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why would it show that little part at the top?

turbid plank
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How doni generate a lightmap uv?

meager hare
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I tried finding that my self and I couldnt man

mossy mesa
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Hello,
I am on 2019.1.2f1, using stereo VR forward rendering. My lights is disabled when moving my head in some locations when OC is turned on. When I delete baked data its working normally. I have 2 lights in scene and they are not occluder or ocludee static. My oclusion area is a volume Any help with this ? Video is showing the problem.

wispy skiff
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Hey, I'm trying to bake in some sky light to my terrain, with a big shadow in a certain place. But the shadow is not visible in the shaded version. On the right, you can see the lightmap, and on the left is the shaded. That shadow is nowhere to be seen. It's very much in effect on the light probes though.

novel slate
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hello. how do i get rid of this annoying shine that follows my player

wispy skiff
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@novel slate Is it like a sun or moon or some skylight reflection?

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In that case, pull the material smoothness down low

novel slate
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turning down the smoothness worked

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ty very much

thick silo
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How do I fix the noise on the volumetric lighting through the window

wispy skiff
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There's a little cog wheel icon in the top right corner of the fog settings. There you can tweak some stuff, but in my experience, it's hard to get completely clean fog unless you enable the filter checkbox there

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@thick silo

thick silo
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@wispy skiff Thank you this is the most helpful server I've been in.

tired horizon
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I have a question for Unity Rendering Professionals.
im using URP RP 7.2.1 and Subtractive Mixed Lightning.
i have one directional light for my nature environment.

  • What i not fully understand is what is actually happening when i lightbake the environment with my directional light set to Realtime only.
  • is it wrong or right to add my directional light to the sun source input on the lightning tab?
    and what is the actual purpose of that input
  • i have the directional light on Realtime because i use it for day and night cycle.
  • is there some trick or thing i need to do that the terrain looks fine when its dark?
  • I does look weird and sometimes when i animate the light into darkness the scene is freezing for second, everything get cyan (blue) and the shader compile does something
    Any ideas?
wispy skiff
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@tired horizon Hey! Having your light at realtime will not bake the light at all, so no bounced light from that light source. But if you're doing day and night cycles, you don't want to bake any daylight GI into the scene anyway.

For the sun source, this is what Unity documentation says:
"These settings affect the main Directional Light in your Scene. You can select this by assigning it as a Sun Source in the Lighting Inspector. If you don’t assign a sun source, the URP treats the brightest directional light in the Scene as the main light. You can choose between Pixel Lighting and None. If you choose None, URP doesn’t render a main light, even if you’ve set a sun source."

For night lighting, you need to set Environment Lighting, which right now is a solid color of gray for you. Also moonlight (directional light) if you want. The day/night cycle aspect makes you unable to bake any permanent lighting into the scene. I guess you can try baking the night sky light into the scene, and then have realtime sun and sky for the daylight, as it will drown out the night light bake anyway.

The cyan blue means indeed that the shader is compiling, and that Unity wants to make that clear. It shouldn't show up during playmode or recording.

tired horizon
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@wispy skiff thank you for this!

fair moth
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need some advice for underwater lighting...

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light not only disperses in water, it is quickly absorbed, so over a distance things always become darker

dim spoke
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Any idea how to get rid of the lines where meshes meet? I've tried going up/down in resolution/lightmap scale, I've checked generate UV lightmaps, and played with a ton of other settings but nothing seems to get rid of this. 2018.4.0f1

fair moth
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so i want to have lighting which is brighter on the surface of the water, and i need secondary lighting, or some kind of filter perhaps, which causes darkening over a distance from any given point within the water (the camera's location)

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rather than trying to achieve this with lighting, could i use a depth based fog effect?

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looks like your texture doesnt tile correctly

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it should have symmetrical edges right?

dim spoke
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I replaced the material with a newly created standard material, but I still see the unaligned shadow/lines between game objects/meshes. I also get this same or similar problem if i make a few cubes line them up and bake a light, I get slight shadow/lines(not ambient occlusion) were the cubes are connected. Any other advice? thanks.

thick silo
tired horizon
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is this the editor or the game view? @thick silo

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i have question about shadows and antialiasing
still using URP rp 7.2.1 and i have moving foilage. ON the PC most of the time on hires screen the shadowing is nearly ok. But i get this flickering in the movement of the shadows.
it looks a but like moire on curtains and like the shadow itself is either pixeled or its volume it moving like it has noise in it.
how can i deal with this issue, where do i have have to look at to find the cause?

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what kind of Antialiasing can you recommend to use in VR vs on hires PC screen?

cobalt wraith
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i actually searched for it but where do i find a good tutorial on how to make things glow in 3d ? xD

hollow lantern
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Hi,
I have a scene with completely baked lighting (okay, my player isn't baked, but that's all the dynamic stuff), but my profiler shows that shadows/depth takes about 95 percent of GPU usage. How should I resolve it? Or is it normal? If so, please, could someone explain me how does shadow computing work? Thank you

hollow lantern
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@cobalt wraith In Unity?

cobalt wraith
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yeah 😮

hollow lantern
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There is an option called Emission on the Materials

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just check it

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And it will glow

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@cobalt wraith Or sorry, I forgot something to mention. Emission works only in case of static objects.

cobalt wraith
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@hollow lantern yeah i found it and fucking yeah i got it thank you very much 😮

crisp cave
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I've got a really weird issue with normal mapping in URP 2D. It seems to be working fine in the editor but as soon as I enter play mode the effect disappears. If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated. I've been tearing my hair out all day.

unkempt silo
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I have a problem with objects in scenes looking darker on a Windows build than in the builds for iOS, Android or the Unity Editor. It's like some lights are turned off. I've tried changing the lighting settings, auto generate and manually generate lightmapping and I've messed around with almost every setting in the lighting section and every other suggestions I could find on forums but with no luck so far. If any of you guys can give me a pointer on where and what else to look for it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

daring gyro
night gazelle
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How do I turn off all shadows in Unity? I created empty scene with light source and a cube. On Light I selected Shadow type: No shadows and on cube Receive shadows removed tickbox, but still cube is receiveing shadow from light source

tired horizon
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Hi,
I have a scene with completely baked lighting (okay, my player isn't baked, but that's all the dynamic stuff), but my profiler shows that shadows/depth takes about 95 percent of GPU usage. How should I resolve it? Or is it normal? If so, please, could someone explain me how does shadow computing work? Thank you
@hollow lantern shadows are expensive, setup the shadow distance to setting that only the really seen shadows get rendered from your game players view-
small object you could give some ambient occlusion instead.

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if all your objects are batched and instanced well it should be fine with a few shadow casters.

fickle wind
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❓ I'm having a really hard time getting light to bake.
Manually baking lighting, always resulted in a black lightmap. I randomly tried using 'autobake', and it worked. I have no idea why. But, its super annoying, because It makes before build, during build, and after build. Plus, I don't want to bake every time I hope the scene.

My best guess, is for some reason, auto-bake doesn't actually save the lightmap anywhere, but manually baking does? But, maybe my unity isn't able to save the bake files properly, so they are turning black?

Rather than fill chat with pictures, I have them here on a google doc.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1POEV9fpYw_80YQE2CwrVvTnfkfW8SwqdHHxAQFsek4k/edit?usp=sharing

hollow lantern
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@tired horizon So shadows do nothing with baked lighting? Why can't I bake shadows as well?

wispy hatch
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You can bake shadows

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@hollow lantern

hollow lantern
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Where?

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I have baked lighting

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Hmm, now the huge GPU usage because of Shadows turned into Others, witthout any meaningful change...

daring gyro
tired horizon
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@hollow lantern lights have the option, baked Realtime and mixed.

hollow lantern
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@hollow lantern lights have the option, baked Realtime and mixed.
@tired horizon Yes, I know, they are set to mixed

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Basically everything is baked fine

coral drum
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I am new to unity and I can't find how to fix this

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some says to use doublesided shader but idk what that is some say to change ambient lighting but in 2019.3.7f isnt such option under scene lighting tab

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so I'm lost

hazy phoenix
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You are using Baked Global Illumination, but it looks like you don't have any lightmap generated

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What you can do is either use:
a) No Global Illumination, but enable Ambient Lighting
a) Realtime GI
b) Baked GI

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Also, you need to change then a setting in your light sources

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I think what would help you the most is to look up and learn how Global Illumination works, there are plenty of good resources available on the internet @coral drum

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for example Brackeys has covered this topic too

coral drum
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I got my answer on stackoverflow jsut few minutes ago. I disabled Baked global illumination (whatever that means) and changed source to color instead of skybox

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and what baked means

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and thanks

hazy phoenix
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Okay, so you did the a) option

coral drum
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and which is the best option

hazy phoenix
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it depends on your project

coral drum
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So if I want to make a FPS game which option should I use 😄

hazy phoenix
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Sorry but I can't really answer that question since I haven't tried Global Illumination yet

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But probably the way to go atm is to use Baked Global Illumination with Light Probes

narrow bear
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Hallo

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I have kind of fixed this already, but JW if I'm missing something

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With "Contribute to GI" on, my low poly rocks are covered in poop (left);

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Thonk I turn it off for them and they look fine, but what gives? No GI baking for them?

viscid oar
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I have problems with my normal map

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With normal map

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Without normal map

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Its sending light a direction even tho its not supposed to

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and i compared it to other normal maps and it seems fine?

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It seems too white

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How do i fix this

viscid oar
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I made the map myself and idk how to make it better

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cause this is what other maps look like

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Very blue

covert stirrup
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That's just how Unity displays the texture. As long as it's set to normal map as texture type that's fine

viscid oar
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Yeah well

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If you scroll up you can see the light acts weird

covert stirrup
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Yes I can see

viscid oar
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When i remove my normal map it acts normal again

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and when i add just any other map its normal too

covert stirrup
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Are you using the standard shader?

viscid oar
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Yea

covert stirrup
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Standard pipeline or SRP?

viscid oar
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'Standard'

sudden pelican
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Did you mark your texture as a normal?

covert stirrup
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Yeah it should generate a warning otherwise

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Pretty weird to me. But youre using an old version of 2018 LTS. So it might be worth considering upgrading. But I'm not confident this is a bug

viscid oar
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Wait what

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Why did it run in 2018

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damm

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i literally have 2019

covert stirrup
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There's a version dropdown next to the new project button in Hub. Probably had the wrong one by default

viscid oar
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hmm

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Alright

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@covert stirrup This is what happens when i tweak the thing

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you can see the light shifting

covert stirrup
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Well that's to be expected, does it look right if it's just at 1?

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This is exactly what normal maps are meant for, manipulating how an object interacts with light

viscid oar
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No but

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its not supposed to do that

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Wait let me show you

covert stirrup
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Does it look correct if you set the intensity of 1?

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It might be your normal map is bugged too, and the background isn't completely flat. That would reflect the light at an angle

viscid oar
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Random normal map i grabbed does what its supposed to

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Thats what my normal map is made out of

covert stirrup
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Can you share the texture?

viscid oar
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This also shows

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how the light gets shifted

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I made allthe things myself

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and im really new to this

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so

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yea

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I actually came from Roblox, Which doesn't even have any normal maps

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or support for it

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at all

covert stirrup
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Oh is that your original normal map file?

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Then yes that will be the issue

viscid oar
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Yes

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I already thought

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cause its very light

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compared to all others

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And idk what i did wrong when making the normal map

covert stirrup
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How did you make it?

viscid oar
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I can show you

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But its kind of complicated ish

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not really

covert stirrup
viscid oar
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but it has some steps

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yeah

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See

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Idk what i did wrong then

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and how i get that color

covert stirrup
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But this is why I asked, because the inspector preview of a normal map gets lightened to look like that

viscid oar
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ooh

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yea

covert stirrup
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Same file

viscid oar
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Wow

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hah

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Well how do i fix this >_>

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hmm

covert stirrup
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Generate the normal map correctly

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If you're a student then Substance Designer is free, which is great for creating patterns like that

viscid oar
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Im still in highschool so i guess no

covert stirrup
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It's free for anyone in school, including high school

viscid oar
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I GOT IT

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not the program

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But i did it myself

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Im just really stupid

covert stirrup
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Nice one

viscid oar
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That looks better

covert stirrup
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Looks more like it yeah

viscid oar
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IM AFRAID IT WORKED

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There we go

flat kestrel
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What's up with this weird noisy lighting?

ashen comet
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how do i fix the lighting when I switch between scenes in play mode?

ashen comet
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so no one knows?

midnight osprey
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Hey, I'm making a dark horror game for my uni project and I've ran into some problems with the lighting. My directional lights are working fine, however my spot, area and point lights don't seem to effect my game objects. As you can see above, the light will pass through the object and hit the ground, and not have any effect on the objects themselves. Does anyone know how to get the lights to effect the objects? Hope someone can help will appreciate a lot!

ashen comet
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try deleteing the object and adding again

midnight osprey
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Okayy

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so its got do with the shader apparently XD

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thanks for your help!! ill probably go ask on the Shader channel!

ashen comet
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k! good luck with the game

midnight osprey
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thanks XD

old depot
vital totem
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Hi, does anyone have an idea how to create a Sun (or general) lensflare in HDRP?

mossy mesa
#

Hello,
Can someone explain this huge spike in my project?
It only happens when I enable or disable light with 1m diameter max.

tired horizon
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** Lightmapper question - baked AO **
I'm a bit stuck with the AO part of the lightmap but i may have an idea what's the problem, just not sure.
I used non-directional for a outdoor scene in URP, i have one directional Light Realtime and one Directional on only bake.
on the lightmap i clearly see the Ambient occlusion but on static the Objects i don see any. As if the lightmap is not added at all and just being rendered.

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it's clerly visible the small stones are black dots as AO in the lightmap but not on seen in the view nor camera

tired horizon
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Since i use day night cycle as explained earlier in chat by a kind member i can't bake light. i have this main Realtime light aka. no bake.
however i tried to cause AO baked... by using another directional light very low in brightness and cause AO shadows, but the AO don't appear at all because it use Subtractive lightning mode?

is there then no other way to produce AO in URP with my situation. except HBAO as postprocessing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSW8kfR80uM&feature=emb_logo

static latch
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I assume this has something to do with with the fact that the baker is picking up all the planes I used for the hedges, which are alpha clipped but the baker isn't taking it into account

static latch
viscid steeple
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So today i figured that light probs proxy does not work on 2020 latest beta ,also on mesh rendered the "light probs " options does not exist anymore. So now dynamic objects have really but lighting

static latch
balmy cloak
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I have some questions about the 2D lighting engine and the 2D shadow casters

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Is there a way to shorten the length of the shadows so they aren't infinite

shell totem
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so i let a lightmap bake for about 2 hours and now my game runs even worse than it did before????

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i went from 300-500 fps to an unstable 0.8-100fps curve

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and now i have a big startup time

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help

versed ember
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Can anyone think of games with awesome night-time lighting? Looking for some references

timber lichen
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Haven't touched Unity in awhile (since about 2017) there's a lot of things that feel very different. Whenever I make any rendering change, all of my assets turn teal briefly - what exactly is going on with this?

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and is there a way to fix the really nasty shadow banding effect that goes on in the URP template?

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As seen in both of those images

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Thanks.

hexed dock
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Could someone explain to me why does the lightmapper behave like this? This happens when I place anything (in this case - top row of 5 tiles) above given object(s) (bottom row). I created Lightmap UV set (in the second UV index) in Maya, there is no overlap, everything works just fine while the bottom row of tiles has nothing above them.

I use baked GI (obviously) with shadowmask. Lightmapper is set to work with 16 texels resolution and 2 texels of padding, increasing the number does not change anything. Is Unity incapable of baking objects that are placed above each other? I'm getting desperate with this, any tip or advice would be appreciated

tired horizon
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look like the resolution is to small, either the size in lightmap to small or and the res is to small. also disable importance sampling

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artifact mean in most cases you need to tweak the lightbaking. Unity is capable of almost any kind of bake but the user need to figure it out. and that is the hardest part in my opinion. Documentation is worst and differs from version to version and in some cases its not existing

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when you select a object that is contributing to GI you can open the lightmap and see the result on it

hexed dock
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Yeah, I get that. I've been trying to make it work literally for months, abandoning it and getting back to it every once in a while, going through the docs and forums again and again. I fixed many issues along the way (for example - the top row used to have just the same issues as the bottom one before, that was due to overlapping UV's), but this one still persists.

Anyway, checking through the lightmapper settings, importance sampling is disabled. I've tried all kinds or resolutions before, default 32, 40, 60, none of which gave me any different results than 16 or 12, the bleeds were just shifted differently each time around

tired horizon
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also did you try double sided shadows on the intersecting object.
the lower object is z fighting with the floor obviously

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this can help when light leaks tru thin walls$

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and also if you have no solid form with double walls its a problem

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there are many things you can try

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when i render walls they have always two sides

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if not i put black objects to isolate it

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works also

hexed dock
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Yes, I use double sided shadows, it's actually necessary is my case. The light leak you see is not a big deal, when all the tiles combine together (with corners and stuff), they create closed loop so there is no room for the light to leak through. This is just because the wall tile itself is not connected to anything in this particular case, I just placed 5 tiles together to show what the lightmapper does with it

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This is the tile mesh, you can see there is no geometry on the sides so that's why the light leaks through

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Btw, is there any particular reason why you use lightmap scale of 2 on your objects?

tired horizon
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yes its in relation to the other objects on the lightmap

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1 was to small therefore i made it larger to lit the light better

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i have combines parts of the wall in the room into largest possible parts and scaled them best possible to each other on the lightmap

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actually if you select an element and use low setting. start with autobake you can see very fast how large the object is on the light map

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then you stop and make scale better

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aa outdoor terrain of 500x500 meters for example would be size 0.01

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just an example

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btw be carefull if you show email account on screenshots 😉

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i always blur them

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maybe i overcast this but its your maya account 😉

hexed dock
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Yeah, thanks for warning, didn't even notice I was signed in in Maya 😄 So I guess then it might be worth playing with the object scale in lightmap. I only knew that setting it to 0 disables the object from being lightmapped entirely, while still contributing to lighting, never really played with other numbers

tired horizon
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use more object together with larger and see how it turns out

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good luck!

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start with low setting (and autobake) and dial up. once the sizes are fin use the bake button not automatic anymore. unity generates your lightdata then in a folder where your scene files are.

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will take time but the result will be worth

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also look to go up with the lightmap size and res during the progress when more and more object come to the lightmap

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i use latest unity some things might be different but the way is the same

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the link show what i tried to explain @hexed dock

hexed dock
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Yeah I'm just reading it through and it actually gave an idea

narrow bear
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Any lighting experts know what might be up here? ;

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Lighting on door is fine until door opens/closes

versed ember
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@narrow bear are you sure there isn't anything Zfighting? Cause it looks like that rather than a lighting issue

narrow bear
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That's exactly it, 😂
The two sets of doors are moving to the same point

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Thanks! 👌

willow matrix
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how might I make interiors darker?

summer aspen
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reduce ambient light

willow matrix
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thank you

crude chasm
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Hi quick question. Is there a way for me to put the point light behind a tilemap?

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I'm trying to make the light appear as if it's coming from the window

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or do I just have to play with the settings?

native moon
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I'm trying to create a basic lamp for my game. I added this light property to the prefab, but there is no light emitted from my lamp, either in the scene view or in-game. Is this due to something I'm overlooking? Online tutorials that I have watched never had this problem.

umbral musk
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why am I getting full black parts, using the universal render pipeline?

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I set the shadows to soft, but this isnt a problem with the shadows, its with enviroment/ambient lightning

static latch
versed ember
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@crude chasm that's not what you need exactly. You probably need a lit window tile and a cookie on your light to mimick the shadow of the window frame

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@native moon have you tried adding some default 3D objects in the scene? Or make a new scene? That shouldn't be an issue

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@umbral musk you need to generate the lighting

clever abyss
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Hi. I got a really unusual quistion

You lightin guys are definetely aware of the top area light that makes every horror movie, dark. If not, let me explain :
imagine a cube,being the room, and we are shooting inside that room/cube, and the whole ceiling surface of the cube is a soft area light to make everything so soft and darken

That in mind, ,, how can we do such a soft area light in Unity?

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Is it even possible to have some area light to affect every pixel of a room, every frame ?

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And is it optimized enough for a mid-rated PC ?

versed ember
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that doesn't really look like an area light to me, it's more like a soft spotlight and the rest is just ambient light

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you can definitely achieve this

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if the rooms doesn't have dynamic elements it's also pretty performance light

clever abyss
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@versed ember in the image i sent, there is an area light right bellow the ceiling, so soft we cant easily track it down with first sight,,, i found that out in the behind the scene

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Its used in most of horror movies , and i guess some games lime re7 use it too

versed ember
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well you do have area lights in unity but I'm not sure they'd help with that effect

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it's worth a shot though

clever abyss
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Reply : if the room doesnt have dynamic elements its also pretty performance light

I need it dynamics as well as non dynamics,,, do u think it could be achieved with light probe, maybe?

versed ember
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yeah light probes would solve the issue there

clever abyss
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Thanks then

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I'll use that

static latch
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is there any documentation out there about lightmapping and vegetation? alot of my vegetation is a bunch of planes stuck together with alpha transparency, and the lightmap doesn't know what to do

versed ember
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@static latch what specific issue are you having? Does your vegetation move?

static latch
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Nah, but that'd be cool as heck, but I've made like a hedge out of planes, and all of the planes are going through each other, and as a result the AO bakes it really dark

versed ember
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yeah they look really dark. So you're baking the AO? I would then recommend to make a lightmap settingprofile that ovverrides scene setting for the hedges

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you see here inside the object that Lightmap parameters use scene default, but you can specify a new preset

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you could either remove the AO for the hedges or tweak it's parameter to reduce intensity

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personally I never bake the AO, I prefer to have it as a screen effect

static latch
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Ah, I'll give it a go, I think it'd be best for me to bake it, I'm just making a mod for a game which I don't think has ambient occlusion

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Turns out with VR is that you can get games to look photo realistic and perform really well at the same time, just gotta bake everything lol

versed ember
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hehe yeah that's fair then. Specific settings should help ya

static latch
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I see some options regarding the AO but it's greyed out

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nothing about disabling AO on the object

versed ember
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is your filtering set to advanced?

static latch
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don't think so?

static latch
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ah spooky

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Still don't see anything about modifying AO settings on a specific mesh

versed ember
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try to tick off is Transparent

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and see if that helps with the darkness

static latch
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It didn't =(

versed ember
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dang

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if you remove it altogether in the general lightmap setting, does the darkness go away completely?

static latch
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Yeah but then it stands out a bit much

versed ember
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the only other solution I can think of is to bake the AO in an external 3D software inside the albedo

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ah no nvm

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you can't exclude it either way

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unless you bake it for every single item

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which is annoying

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interesting issue :\

static latch
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It's probably something real simple, because any game with lightmap baking and vegetation would have ran into this issue lol

versed ember
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and then rebake

static latch
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I've tried that, it just prevents it from affecting other objects on the lightmap

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maybe i've gone about modelling the hedge wrong

versed ember
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sorry completely out of ideas here 😄

static latch
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but I tried it with some random vegetation from the asset store, still kinda does with things with light mappin

versed ember
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yeah seems like baked ao is just bad

static bridge
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i have these pixel thin gaps between my model and the shadow it casts. any idea what could be causing it? its not bias settings on the light and it happens in both hard and soft shadow modes

static bridge
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nvm figured it out. forgot a very specific thing was being done in the shader that causes this

flat kestrel
#

What is causing this very weird shadow effect?

dim spoke
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I'm using a dynamic day/night cycle, but trying avoid other real time lights in the scene. For the nighttime part I have the environment lighting baked (with the daytime directional light off), basically it has lamps and windows and such baked and I'm using light probes to light the characters at night. Problem is when the daytime light is on(so now there are light probes from nighttime bake and Realtime directional light) the characters are heavily shadowed from the darker light probes. Any ideas about how to lessen the shadows from the light probes during the daytime lighting? I've tried light probe volumes to try to even out the shadows, but it doesn't help much. Only other thing I can think of is to somehow toggle the mesh renderer light probe settings on/off on the characters, but I would rather find a different solution if it exists. Thanks.

static latch
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@versed ember I turned off AO baking and I get the same look, so maybe it's something else

timber lichen
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Hi, I was following the brackeys lightning tutorial and installed Unity 2019.2 but uh...
The version of LightweightRP I have is way lower than the one in the video
I have 5.7.2 when I need 6.7.1
What am I supposed to do?

covert stirrup
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It's been renamed to URP @timber lichen

timber lichen
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@covert stirrup I don't have that

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Like I said, I'm on 2019.2, not 2020

covert stirrup
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It's still called URP in 2019

timber lichen
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I'm pretty confused

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I got lightning working on my character

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but there's a little dot line that behaves exactly like one of my scripts

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Like, an infinite irregular dotted line that is emitted from my character's "-transform.up" (down) direction

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and rotates according to the right joystick

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That's exactly what I want

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But, IDK how to make it bigger

naive edge
#

Has anyone had issues with reflection probes in Unity 2019.2, using HDRP? It shows the reflection probe has baked, but every time I make a build I need to rebake it, and everytime I switch the quality, it resets back to black. This means the user can't change the quality :S

the reflection probe is set to baked, and at this point I'm really lost on what I'm supposed to do...

fossil elk
maiden pier
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hi there Developers and designers. I wanted to ask that does static batching work after light baking??

covert stirrup
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It does @maiden pier but only for objects sharing the same lightmaps

maiden pier
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okay What can i do make the objects bake the same light map? clearly 17 lightmaps are being baked and its decreasing the performance. somone said about bake index somewhere or lightmap assets. I have too many trees, decals, and wirefences in one of my scene.
Without lightmap 100 batches and 850 saved by batching
With 17 lightmaps 750 batches and 200 saved by batching

covert stirrup
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How big are your lightmaps? Upping the size to have fewer lightmaps helps. Then you can also create LightmapData assets and assign groups, so that you can control which objects are baked to which lightmaps

maiden pier
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2048.... so basically i have do do 4k?? do any other bake settings results in fewer lightmaps?

covert stirrup
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Reducing the 'Scale in lightmap' parameter will make you need fewer lightmaps

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You can see the resolution of your lightmaps in the 'baked lightmap' debug view

maiden pier
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ok thanks

hardy spoke
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Henlo! New to working with lighting inside viddy games. Im trying to get a neat ambient effect in my sports arena. The players start inside small tunnels, and the doors open up to let the players in. Right now my lighting is set up so outside it looks pretty ok! However, the tunnels aren't dark at all. I play with some of the environmental lighting and I can get the caves dark how I want! But then the whole rest of the arena is dark as well :P
Can anyone point me to any resources that can help me out, or @/DM me with some solutions?

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I was thinking of setting it up where at the start of the game the lighting is really dark, but then as the doors open the lighting would get brighter. I feel thats a bit complicated, so I was wondering if there is some sort of setting or shader I can use instead

covert stirrup
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I would probably try to do this with exposure in the post processing instead of modifying the lighting itself

polar sage
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Are there any general tips on how to make lighting a little nicer to weaker machines? I recently made some updates to my game's lighting that make it a lot nicer, but some of the people who are testing stuff for me are using pretty poor computers. Is lighting at least partially to be a likely source of performance issues? I want to make my game as playable as possible on their machine.

topaz hill
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you can see the mountains in the back completely dark, I want it normally lit

timber lichen
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hi. maybe (i hope) a trivial question: I have a simple scene with baked lights (no rt). I am using this scene multiple times in the game with slight changes. when i duplicate the scene can i also duplicate the lightmap (settings) and rebake it with the changes i made in the scene without overwriting the lightmap from the scene i duplicated?

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second question (probably less trivial, could not find a solution online): I have simple objects (cubes) with standard sizes that are aligned to each other (snapped, its exact). It looks good as soon as I build the light. I get shadow artifacts where they are "attached" to each other. I have very high lightmap resolution and shadow settings. i also checked the lightmap resolution on the objects and its fine. I pretty much tried everything but always get these ugly artifacts...

upbeat fern
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@topaz hill looks like it foggy, try to set up fog lower (light settings -> fog)

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@timber lichen 1) yes, you can. just duplicate scene, rename it and bake light. unity create new separate lightmaps and lighting data. 2) any screenshot?

timber lichen
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  1. yeah, i know that. but i mean can it use the already baked lightmap and just rebake the "changes" so it doesnt take so long? (i guess not...)
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also getting this warning, but lightmapping uvs is activated

covert stirrup
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Generating lightmap UVs is not a guarantee for problem free UVs

timber lichen
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my settings are so high it takes quite a while for a VERY basic scene with gpu lightmapper and a 1080 gtx

covert stirrup
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You can play around with the parameters and see if it solves it. I usually just make them myself

timber lichen
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and it stills looks like crap

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i play around with them since 2 days

covert stirrup
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I meant the lightmap UV generation parameters btw

timber lichen
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lighting in unity (which i use since about 4 years) is so frustrating i thought about switching to unreal more than once

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but how about unitys standard objects?

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where can i change model options?

covert stirrup
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they shouldn't have lightmap UV issues

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When it comes to baking lights on modular models it's a lot of the same principles as in UE4 actually

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Like snapping lightmap UV vertices to a pixel grid

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But a lot of the techniques to get good lightmaps in UE4 also apply to unity

timber lichen
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well i only use unity sandard objects in the scene

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only cubes in different scales, very detailed lightmap settings

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I'll just try with even higher settings now.

timber lichen
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still happening on these settings:

dusty parcel
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what is happening exactly?

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reduce Lightmap resolution, disable filtering, greatly increase rays

timber lichen
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see the screens above

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shadow artifacts where objects are right next to each other (but without a gap)

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(nor overlap)

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where to increase rays?

dusty parcel
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scratch that

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if you want seamless baking

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make seamless geometry and not discreet cubes

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there's really no way around it

timber lichen
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hmm. was afraid thats necessary 🙂

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any easy way to combine meshes (only primitives)

dusty parcel
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Even then you would want to make sure the UVs are continuous as well, and that doesn't work great with primitives and merging

timber lichen
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alright. did some c4d a while ago 🙂

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still good enough for those basic objects i hope

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thx

timber lichen
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its now all one object, but i still get some ugly parts here.

timid oracle
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I don't know if this is the right place to put this but I would like to know how to fade between skyboxes. I have a daytime skybox and a nighttime skybox material and I want to be able to blend between the to. The daytime skybox is also the built-in Unity procedural skybox. I have found a lot of links such as this one: https://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/SkyboxBlended but none of them are helpful as I do not want to blend between textures but rather the skybox materials that I already have. What is the best way to do this?

brittle edge
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Guys I need help

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2d lighting

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Why is my scene editor rendering light, but not the game view

timber lichen
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does anyone have a script for a flashlight?

native moon
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I'm using the Universal Render Pipeline, Realtime Lighting, and Shadow in a Global Volume Profile to simulate night time. I have a lamp block that is supposed to emit light. I am using an emissive material, and the source of light is a point light in the center of the block. As you can see in the attachments below, the lamp is really bright and doesn't have a lot of range, even though I increased it in the inspector. I found that it may deal with the lighting dropoff, but I don't know where to start. Basically, I want the light to be less intense and to spread out over a larger range. Thanks to all that help!

wheat lichen
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More examples ^

native moon
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I may have narrowed down my problem. How do i change the lighting drop off? I believe it is currently at inverse squared. Is there a way to make it more linear?

cold pasture
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so i am kinda new at the baking lightmaps in unity but i have general knowledge but i tried baking my lighting and it didnt really have any affect instead if just make everything black (inside my house where there are lights)

timber lichen
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Set the objects you want to receice the light to static and set the light source to baked or mixed.

timber lichen
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Also, I would suggest increasing the light intensity by just a tiny bit. For example, if it's set to 1, set it to 2, as baked lighting is noticeably darker that realtime.

modest bone
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Im in this village, and no matter what I do I can't get my skybox to load

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I searched for 2 days on google and cant find anything its driving me insane

covert stirrup
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