archived-lighting

[hot harness]

Ive basked lightmaps before and they looked great but im just not getting anything now

[teal stratus]

go to filtering and see if there is a denoiser on, if not, try Optix if you have a Nvidia GPU or Open Image Denoise otherwise

[timber lichen]

Yeah, they area all set to OpenImageDenoise

I do have an Nvidia GPU but Optix is disabled

[ionic smelt]

Hey 🙂 maybe someone can help me with that https://forum.unity.com/threads/volumetrics-with-shadowmask-unity-2020-2-hdrp-10-0.1026907/ ❤️

[lavish stone]

here's the reference Image

here's how it's rendered using real time render ( Quixote Mixer)

here's how it's look in unity

I hope someone know why quixel is better by default than unity clustery look

I use static , GI reflection probe , lights probes group and maximum shaadowmap resolutions .

[celest quest]

hello all, so for some unknown reason my shadows have disappeared. If I delete the Directional Light > Save > CTRL Z > The shadows return, it seems I can now save and the shadows are there but if I start the game the shadows disappear again

before and after:

its like the lighting is reducing which makes shadows disappear?

[sturdy narwhal]

using HDRP shouldnt this be pitch black?

its a closed off cube and no lights inside, only directional light in my scene

[sturdy narwhal]

^ is fixed

Is there a way to adjust the range of a material emission ? the distance the light goes

[mystic dew]

You want to add tesselation on terrain layers texture?

[tulip chasm]

My HDRI sky isn't visible. Why? I'm using HDRP

[timber lichen]

Can someone please link me a doc or a vid showing how to get that good looking 3d scene

u know like those test scenes

where u test stuff

[lethal heron]

@lavish stone enable the phong model for tessellation in the material's settings. then, experiment with the depth of the normal map. you have to google tessellation in DXR / DX12 a bit

@tulip chasm start with a sample scene

@sturdy narwhal emission effects in what sense? its primary illumination? use point lights and non-primary-illuminating emission if you need to control "distance"

[sturdy narwhal]

ah that makes sense, instead of emissive material, put a point light above it and adjust that? ty !

trying to learn about light baking but its so much and so complex, watched a ton of videos and man

[lavish stone]

That's not a terrain . that's geometry model ( plane) with surface material .

[lavish stone]

Ok thank you I will try

[rugged condor]

hey i want to disable the shadows of the player and i cant figure out why my camera sees my player when i move so should i disable the mesh renderer so it fixes both the problems

[timber lichen]

how to fix that?

realtime shadow from directional light

[plucky schooner]

It's the normal bias on the light I believe

Something like that @timber lichen

[lunar pollen]

how do i fix this weird shadowing effect in HDRP?

and shadow res being super low in general

[maiden breach]

hey. how to make emission objects affect non-static objects?

[timber lichen]

Hi all, I've posted a question on 2D lighting using the lightweight render pipline on the Unity forums which hasn't had any replies yet - if anyone could help me out that'd be amazing https://forum.unity.com/threads/lighweight-render-pipeline-lwrp-sorting-layers-and-order-in-layer.1027645/

[scenic estuary]

Hello.

Everytime I remove my non static object from scene, light is being re calculated.

why?

after everymove I take, should I wait?

[hot harness]

hey im getting some wired errors when baking lights
such as
unity mesh point ,strip or line topology not supported with light mapping
and atlas size has reached it limit
anyone know how to fix these problems

ok nvm mind apprently when I collabed back to my other computer it looks great now

[lavish stone]

I know it missing color bleeding because Idont use ray tracing

[lavish stone]

smh reflection doesn't look fight because I use forward rendering here's anther shot with deferred , massive change (look at the reflection) defiantly screen space is better with the deferred rendering but I lose geometry details if I dont use forward

[lunar pollen]

are you in hdrp?

[lavish stone]

deferred

no

[lunar pollen]

idk about built in render pipeline, but hdrp can use forward and deferred

if your project is newer or if your just setting up cinematic shots i urge you to look into hdrp, its amazing

[lavish stone]

yes but i'm not familiar with it + some sharers doesn't work I should focus on learning first then when i'm comfortable I will move to hdrp

[lunar pollen]

i dont recomend moving to hdrp once your project gets larger, its better to do it earlier imo

[lunar pollen]

speaking of, does anyone know why my shadows do this?

[lunar pollen]

also, why are they blurrier the further they "travel"

[honest coyote]

Why are my walls just black

while i have a texture for them

[summer aspen]

@honest coyote You need a light source to view lit materials

[honest coyote]

but i just want it all the same light

i dont want like some parts to be darker than others

[summer aspen]

Setup shadow cascades and Depth/normal bias

[summer aspen]

There's an ambient light settings, if you don't want shadows at all you want an unlit materials

[honest coyote]

where

[summer aspen]

Depending on the pipeline, manuals are linked here in pins

[gilded zephyr]

I've been trying to use HDRP, lighting has been looking weird for a while and I can't figure out quite how to fix it

Currently, there is one directional light in the scene, the scene is a hd default one so it already has the profile etc.

When I direct the light towards the floor of the building, it provides light coming through the windows like I'm trying to get, but everything apart from the outside of the building turns blue (even with materials applied)

Seems like it happens when the light is not at specific angles, and even when the light is at one the specific angles, only some of the objects show their textures properly (as shown in the image)

I've tried following a few tutorials on this but not sure quite what's going wrong

also have a weird bug now where that dark circle appears on the wall

[lunar pollen]

im in 2020.2 and i sometimes get circles like that in scene view, editor restart fixes it

[novel raft]

Beginner here..how do I make it as bright as this..because few of sides of my cube are black literally

[novel raft]

fixed it

[rapid galleon]

When I save the RenderSettings.ambientLight color to a variable, I get the right color (dark blue), but when I try to set the RenderSettings.ambientLight color to that same dark blue color via script, I get a lighter version of the color. Why?

[reef wind]

with HDRP, what am I missing here? the character's clothes and face are barely visible but the sun is high and bright. same for in the shaded area, too dark

https://i.imgur.com/4WX7wAS.jpeg

[timber lichen]

I made the materials for this 3d object shiny in blender but in the game engine it isn't shiny at all. I'm a noob at lighting so it's probably a simple fix but please help (i'm using legacy RP)

[lavish stone]

add Emission texture map using pbr shader

for more information :
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/StandardShaderMaterialParameterEmission.html

[ripe wedge]

Can anyone help me? I have a problem with my volumetric light beam..
In Editor it looks like this:
https://i.gyazo.com/c7652c700edee89e0117f112d283ebce.jpg

But in game like this:
https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/2PqxZlDPSg5z50CbGtDRrcjuR0r6qaiL3pSiC7k40qo/https/i.gyazo.com/0338d7be840c1b0b8886a02d518e44eb.jpg

I've tried a lot. But idk what to do.. I haven't done anything strange. There are a couple of changes in the default light settings. But nothing that will cause something like this.

[lusty vine]

I have absolutely no idea what that is. But it looks like a missing/broken light map

[ripe wedge]

Yea I found the problem a second ago. There is something in the code of the shader that creates this problem.

[lusty vine]

Ah good

[ripe wedge]

Been trying to solve this problem for a day ...

[lusty vine]

I'm a good ducky 😄

[steep hedge]

Does anyone familiar with Aura 2? Do you know if there is a way to make it work in URP pipeline?

[mystic dew]

@steep hedge probably no. wait for Aura 3

[steep hedge]

Aura 3 is wip?!!

[solemn heath]

Hey, so after light build, static objects are getting completely dark, i'm using progressive gpu, but this also happens on cpu

[timber lichen]

Is there any way to achieve a lighting effect like this in real time. Essentially seeing the shadow silhouette through a Japanese paper wall thing.

[balmy stratus]

how can I fix pixelated shadow in URP?

[winter echo]

If I am going to use light probes, am I able to make seperate light probe groups for each room, or should I have one large light probe group?

[winter echo]

what do your materials for those objects look like

[honest nova]

So I'm testing a small concept game where you are basically skydiving. I'm using physics for the whole thing but I get strange artifacts in the lighting once the falling objects get too far away from the origin. Is there an easy way to fix this? (also, is this the right channel for this question? I'm new, and I just switched to Unity from Godot)

[solemn heath]

if i clean GI cache, do i lose my scene lighting?

[spark fractal]

Has anyone had an issue where additional lights don't work in URP on android?
I also have an issue where post processing disables when camera stacking is on.

[warm lichen]

If I set baked lighting to one bounces instead of two, how much would a scenes quality be diminished.

[warm lichen]

Also is there a way to save and recall lightmaps

[compact remnant]

I guess you could copy them to another folder, as they're essentially texture maps? Though I've never done it before so I couldn't tell you with 100% certainty @warm lichen

[raven oyster]

not sure if this is a relevant question, but I need in a 2d game to get shadows (not yet decided how to create) when opening the door to the next level.
P.S. photo maked in "paint" for understanding (sorry for my english)

opened

should I try changing the Camera Culling mask? Or just make a sprite with dark Backgroung and move it?

[haughty plume]

dudes, not sure if anyone is able to explain this to me, i'm trying to make puddles, at night, and they reflect light and have raindrops. now, i can do this, its fine, but i found the only way i could make it work was by using an area light on it, if i use a spot light, it kinda.....diffuses the white light on the surface. but, using an area light is means 1) my shadows suck, and 2) i cant use volumetric on it. i'm not sure what i can do to the shader to make it not diffuse the light

[haughty plume]

looks like i can disable 'affect specular' on the sportlight but that breaks the specular i want on other objects

its like i need to disable specular highlights on the shader for the puddle

ooh, changing the shader to stack lit seemed to fix it 😄

[nimble lava]

I've got light bleed that isn't visible in the editor, but is visible when looking through the camera of my player character. Any idea what could cause this??

it may not be super visible but here's a picture showing the problem

[topaz jackal]

Are these artifacts coming from an issue with lighting?

[icy tundra]

@timber lichen you can project shadows onto the surface. Or you could cheat and just use scene depth if you don't change viewing angle much.

[quick hamlet]

hey i tried unity 2020.2 ssgi but the results are not impresive it is almost like no baked lighting but on the announcement video the ssgi looks great so how can i achive that kind of realism ?

[queen junco]

Anyone know how something like this could work in unity? Like fire that could completely cover a object?

[weary kettle]

Hey, I am not sure if this is the right channel for this, but I am using normal maps for 2d sprites, and it is causing an issue where you can sort of see behind one sprite to another. It seems like the normals of the car here are effecting the character in front. Anyone know what could be causing this?

[timber lichen]

A shader graph probably

[covert stirrup]

VFX graph seems like it would be necessary

[finite compass]

Can someone help me increase my shadow quality in URP?

[lavish stone]

can someone explain to me why unity use toolbag for DevLook instead of unity path tracer ?

[hardy aurora]

Ofc. it's okay, why shouldn't it be?

Well most AAA games use realtime GI, which works well in most games

so I assume baking will achieve atleast that quality

Exactly

But you can calculate baked lighting on the GPU

That's what GPGPU is for

In the VFX Industry they also use many GPUs just to bake lighting

As GPU's do different rounding than CPUs or offer less precision (using float instead of double) there might be a small loss in precision but it is completely negligible

It should be fine, even better to be honest because you can let your GPU work without blocking your CPU

Also, always keep in mind that you can use the GPU for more than just rendering (see compute shaders, gpgpu)
Though I'm going OT with that xD

compute raytracing is fun too, until you need to build your own datastructures on the gpu 😛

[wise basin]

i was just wondering if lwrp has soft shadows

or if anyone knows a good alternative to lwrp for implementing soft shadows

[hoary fossil]

Testing out unity 2020.2 using DXR

This engine is insane

[split furnace]

folks, we sometimes have an issue where a baked shadow gets cutoff when a ground tile ends and a new one begins. could anyone suggest what could be causing this behavior?

[worthy sapphire]

What would the best way to have mixed lights in interiors with functional light switches be?

Like, I wanna have multiple rooms in a scene where I can turn lights on and off using a light switch. Currently I kinda need to bake the lighting and reflection probles so that it looks good, but if I bake it with the lights on then the lights remain baked on the objects when I turn off the lights.

[gritty ore]

Saw this during some light baking, just thought it was funny enough to be worth sharing.

[pulsar aspen]

amazing results!

[timber lichen]

I'm having a rather strange issue with my baked lighting.. The yellow lines are the direction of the light.
If you look at the fence on the left where the blue lines are at, the shadows are going in totally wrong directions + aren't baking onto the terrain either. Can someone please help me understand what i'm doing wrong?

I'm on URP 10.2.2. I generally never do baked lighting but i'm trying to get a test scene made before I get my Oculus Quest 2 in the mail, so figured I'd be smart and bake lights. But this doesn't seem correct. The shadows on the trees are fine, but something is wrong with this fence.

[quick saddle]

what's the point of the mask?

[stark temple]

Is it not apparent by the picture?

and the description

[quick saddle]

I just don't know what the use for it is when normal maps do the same thing

[stark temple]

Normal maps do not mask though

They're only directional

[gritty echo]

Anyone know what might cause jagged shadows? I'm using HDRP and tried increasing shadow resolution and messing with cascading, but I can't seem to fix this.

[gritty echo]

Okay, I figured it out. I was setting my resolution past 4096, but it didn't seem to do much, but then I realized I didn't change my max shadow resolution, so I upped to to 8192 for testing, and it worked lol

[gritty echo]

Now I'm running into this problem. This mesh is made up of triangles, but it's relatively flat here, and I don't think it should be looking like this... Has anyone seen something similar?

[supple patrol]

Did you by any chance change Lightmap resolution as well?

[gritty echo]

Tbh, I'm not sure what the lightmap is, but I'd assume what you mean would either be changing the top or bottom of these values. Either way, I can't tell what changing these actually does.

@supple patrol

[supple patrol]

go into the light settings and view the baked lightmaps (assuming your mesh is static and the lights are baked). Have the mesh selected and it should be visible on the lightmap. does everything fit there or are there overlaps?

how big is your lightmap? (Lightmap size in the Lighting settings)

[gritty echo]

Sorry, I ended up going to bed @supple patrol. This is from a rotating directional light acting as the sun. It keeps moving, but at certain angles, these show up for a little bit.

[thin zealot]

Hey guys im not at home RN but i have a problem that my camera can see shadows only when they are close
How can i fix it

[timber lichen]

#💻┃unity-talk message

help

[stark temple]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.4/Documentation/Manual/class-TrailRenderer.html

If enabled (the box is checked), the Trail geometry is built with Normals and Tangents included. This allows it to use Materials that use the scene lighting, for example via the Standard Shader, or by using a custom shader.

[cobalt dove]

What happened to the lan bake feature unity were going to polish and release a few years back ?

[shadow horizon]

Why is unity lighting system still garbage??

Thisis what it looks like baked

this is not baked. My lights are set to baked. So... What am i doing wrong? Im not waiting 30 mins per bake for it to just not work

[upbeat ember]

Hello ! I really really need your help please ! I'm trying to build a game but the lights are breaking when I do a build, could someone help me please?

Here's the result in the non build scene :

here in the build

[shadow horizon]

looks like a shader problem more than lights

[pulsar tapir]

Is the geometry all set to static?

I have an issue with baked GI. No matter what my lighting setup is—e.g. if I have no light sources, including the environment lighting—the result is blank white.

What can cause that?

Could it be that this is Baguette's same issue in the image above?

My scene with the incorrect baked lighting looks different from that only because it has intense bloom also. I get the same white appearance

This is in 2020.2

Baguette's issue doesn't look like a shader problem since the shading is fine in the first image

[cobalt dove]

@shadow horizon Are your lightmap UV's correct?

[pulsar aspen]

There's an asset' (I know lol) that gives you a decent preview of a bake, might be worth the investment.. shakes fist at unity

[shadow horizon]

I don't even know what that means

[cobalt dove]

the lightmapper requires a second set ot UV's. Unity can generate those automatically if you select the option on the fbx.

[shadow horizon]

Lightmapper must be working if the lights work fine unbaked, no?

@cobalt dove can I dm you about it in a couple hours? Eyes need more sleep 😅

[cobalt dove]

Lightmapper is the thing that bakes the lights. Things turning completely dark is usually a sign of missing lightmap UV's

[shadow horizon]

I assume that uv setting is on the mesh import settings? I'll give it a go after nap

[cobalt dove]

yes in the model tab right at the bottom

[covert stirrup]

Here @shadow horizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ4fl-KBDR8

[finite hamlet]

Hey 🙂 Do you have any idea if it's possible to create a lit AND unlit shader in 2d renderer? I have an outline shader, so when i highlight an object, it gets an outline. However, it's a lit shader, so if it's a dark room, the outline doesn't show.

I want to show the highlight even if it's a dark room, but the item itself (like a cupboard) is supposed to be dark unless there is a light on it. Weird huh? Is it possible? 🙂

[hardy rivet]

Anyone have any idea what could be causing these speckles?

I wonder if it's a problem with the GPU lightmapper

[mystic dew]

what is your Unity version?

[hardy rivet]

2020.2

I got it working by lowering the Texel per unit

[shadow horizon]

@cobalt dove @covert stirrup Should my point light GO be static?

[covert stirrup]

No, that doesn't matter, only the setting on the light does

[shadow horizon]

lets hope this works then, i generated lightmap UV's for all my objects

@covert stirrup Still pitch black

the baked shader thing for scene view clearly shows the lights though...

[covert stirrup]

@shadow horizon I would recommend setting up a test scene to iterate more quickly

[shadow horizon]

Its taking 8 mins per bake, thats fine. i just want it working xD

[covert stirrup]

What kind of shader are you using

[shadow horizon]

No shaders, its just normal materials. Im using URP

[covert stirrup]

So default lit?

[shadow horizon]

ya

[covert stirrup]

And show one of your lights?

[covert stirrup]

Is the light you see there baked?

[shadow horizon]

yes

no

thats realtime

the spot on the flloor infront of the throne

[shadow horizon]

@covert stirrup

[covert stirrup]

hmhm, not sure about this when it shows up in the lightmap preview

[shadow horizon]

iis it "baked shadow radius" ? coz its currently on 0?

is that a problem

[covert stirrup]

no

[shadow horizon]

why does unity hate me

[rocky peak]

Okay you in the chat Anxiety? If not pay attention 😄

[ Insert Meme of Navi here but I can't because the Mods will hate me ]

[shadow horizon]

Yes

[rocky peak]

COol

Go to Window > Render > Light settings for me.

[shadow horizon]

Yup yup, you want a SS?

[rocky peak]

Yep

[rocky peak]

Also what Unity version are you on?

[shadow horizon]

2019.4.8 LTS URP

[rocky peak]

Set your intensity mulitiplier to .1 or .2 (ish). Although you're making a dark spoopy scene, you're going to need a little bounce lighting. It always exists in nature (unless you're in space). And intensity muliplier gives you such

(also this will be a process as I help you debug and troubleshoot kay? I will need to check mlutiple things)

[shadow horizon]

this is what it looks like real time, i want it to look similar to this

[rocky peak]

Beautiful stuff 😄

[shadow horizon]

Ok, i've set intensity multiplier to 0.2 in the light settings

[rocky peak]

What's inside your Mixed LIghting? Is Baked GI checked and LIghitng Mode set to SHadowmask?

[rocky peak]

Why Subtractive?

[shadow horizon]

idk, i believe thats the default setting

[rocky peak]

Shadowmask is

WEIRD something not right at all with that

Try setting your Enviro LIghitng to .2 and see if Shadowmask comes back

[shadow horizon]

Negative

[rocky peak]

Hmm muy interesante that should not be off

Okay before we check the lights, let me see the rest of your lightmap settings. Your one screenshot cut it off. Give me the whole shebang.

[shadow horizon]

Loading

[rocky peak]

Dear LAWD why 2 texels per!?

[covert stirrup]

lightmap size 32

[shadow horizon]

It was taking 30 min plus

For a black scene each time

[covert stirrup]

Why do you think I recommend a test scene!!

[rocky peak]

Okay so was this your "!@)#(*%&)#@%&) WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING!?!?!!" settings?

also can you give me a birds eye screenshot of your level? I want to see how complimacated it is.

[shadow horizon]

On the box at the bottom is really going to be affected by the baked lights

[rocky peak]

There is no reason in hell (pun! Per your hellish game) that should take 30ish minutes

so I'm guessing your geometry is afoul. However let me proceed with the troubleshoot

[shadow horizon]

it takes 8 minutes with my current settings

[rocky peak]

Yeah but your current settings aren't going to do it my friend (thus why you're in here still asking for help) 😄 but we've got your back

Go to Window > Rendering > Light Explorer pretty please

[shadow horizon]

all the lights in this room im in, are all baked

[rocky peak]

Is the "outside" part of the level pure realtime?

[shadow horizon]

Yea, theres no additional lights out there, just the directional light

[rocky peak]

That's a LOT of blooming lights O.o

[shadow horizon]

Which is why i need em baked 😛

[iron crow]

jeez that's a lot of realtime lights

[rocky peak]

Yeah way to break your GI cuz.

Switch to reflection probes section of your tab pretty o' please

[shadow horizon]

I don't have any

[rocky peak]

SHAAAAAMMMMEE

You can fake quite a bit of atmosphere with a baked reflection probe 😉 I'll teach you how

also, hopefully you saw the "SHAAAME" Hot Fuzz meme in your head since I can't meme in here

[shadow horizon]

Never seen it

[rocky peak]

ahh the memes are better than the movie anyways

Okay back on target - is your room one seamless object?

[shadow horizon]

No. "tiles"

[rocky peak]

Or modular objects snapped together with the might vertex snapping?

[rocky peak]

okay excellent excellent choice sir! You get a gold star ⭐

Have you gone through the FBXs that are generating this room, and ensured that Generate LIghtmap UVs is checked?

I've trolled myself forgetting this quite a bit

[shadow horizon]

Aall the objects have that yea, i did that couple hours ago

it moaned about overlapping UV's though

[rocky peak]

AHHHH 😉 FUN

It should tell you which UVs were overlapping and on which object

[shadow horizon]

I'd have to bake again to get the warning :p

[rocky peak]

This shouldn't make your break your entire map though

WELL when that happens, you can fix some of those errors by fiddling with these settings. Usually be setting your pack margin a lil higher (I SAID LIL OKAY!? )

[shadow horizon]

these are all the models used, ill show you one of em

[rocky peak]

You may not need to bake your decals

[shadow horizon]

Decals are like hay clumps on the floor

[rocky peak]

no shadow data on them either pretty please

no probs no probs

Standby I'm going to quickly prototpe a versino of your "hell" on my end

OH quick quick question that COULD make or break your maps - are these items set to a proper size in unity? To check, drag your fbxs near the unity 1x1x1 cube. That cube represents ONE square meter. IF your FBXs are obnoxiously stupid big compared to this cube, that is likely the issue

[rocky peak]

That looks big to me.

[shadow horizon]

About 4x the size

But i dont see why that would matter, If they receive light normally with real time

[rocky peak]

yeah. How "big" is your room, by this wager?

Believe it or not, if you have meters upon meters upon meters of space you're trying to map, that will take up ALL the space and cause the maps to take forever

standby while I get my walls

It's only 4x4 though that should be too bad

Yeah that shouldn't be kilin git so hard

Are these walls marked as static and all that jazz?

[timber lichen]

How can i set my scene completely Dark? I set the ambient light to black but my scene is still light

[shadow horizon]

Yea

[rocky peak]

OKay.

[shadow horizon]

@timber lichen You can utlilise Post processing for that

[rocky peak]

Alright lets move to the next questin - did you set all your realtime lights under one empty game object, and all your baked lights under a separate game object?

?

[shadow horizon]

No

[timber lichen]

@shadow horizon like the stack from package manager?

[shadow horizon]

Depends what render pipeline you're using

[rocky peak]

That's a lighting "Best Practice" 😉 helps you troubleshoot what might be killing you. Go ahead and organize them now. I usulaly title the "empty" game object as "--------BakedLights" so there's no mistaking it

[timber lichen]

im using srp

default

[shadow horizon]

Then i guess you'll have to use the stack yea, Not sure how to install / make it work though, im on urp

@rocky peak ok, all pointlights are in a empty GO now

[rocky peak]

Not all point lights perse - all BAKED lights in one. All REALTIME in another

[shadow horizon]

All my points want to be baked

[rocky peak]

I'm going to make you turn off all the realtimes to see if somehow they're causing a fuss

that's not what I saw in your light explorer e.0

[shadow horizon]

Yea, they should of all been baked 😛

[rocky peak]

Ahh

so did LIght Explorer help you out there? Showing you that easy to see mistake?

[shadow horizon]

Yea

Docked it to my eeditor now 😛

[rocky peak]

Coo that means I helped at least a little so far

it's good window

okay try baking again for science -that might have been the issue

If it's still kind of dark, lift up your texel density again

[shadow horizon]

with these settings?

[rocky peak]

Humbly I think you should go back to default

[shadow horizon]

I didnt make that pack up slightly on model import settings, should i do that

[rocky peak]

ALSO set your outside map to NON STATIC we don't want it on the light map

No not yet you don't want to push your packing out unless it's on a trouble geometry

your default settings uusally help you. Most of hte time.

if they are being hindered that's your chance to say "Huh. THat's not right."

[shadow horizon]

How do i reset to default light settings

[rocky peak]

There is no easy reset

that I'm aware of anyways

OH wait yes there is

click the sprocket in the top right lmao@!

(that's what I get for not looking first)

[shadow horizon]

Nahnah that changes my skybvox and stuff, ill just manually punch in the values in your screenshpot

[rocky peak]

Sure 😉

don't blame ya

[shadow horizon]

Ok its much faster now

5 min eta

[rocky peak]

did it kick your ass on any UVs?

"these UV r not good"

if so look at what objects kicked it up

[shadow horizon]

Normally comes up after bakinhg

the warning

[rocky peak]

kay

[shadow horizon]

only this light worked lmao

[rocky peak]

you're still getting warmer! What's that light got the others dont?

[shadow horizon]

An intensity of 1 and not 10

[rocky peak]

okay what about your indirect multiplers? Did you set them to 0 by chance?

[shadow horizon]

they are all 1 or 3

[rocky peak]

Also 10 seems.. wrong...

are these candles and such?

[shadow horizon]

The candles have no lights, just bloom

[cobalt dove]

Did you duplicate lights when you were placing them ?

[rocky peak]

cool alright I think.. you should hear me on this process that I use -
Delete ALL THE LIGHTS! (save for your directional). Yes I know that's tedious and sucks but there's a reason I do it this way.. Do a -save as if you must. and make a copy of your level.
But delete all your lights. Then set your light settings to "auto-generate" . Your autogenerate shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes if you ONLY have a single directional in there. If it does - something is wrong with the geometry and that'd take me too long to figure out.
Then, I'm going to recommend you start with a single, BIG BIG BIG area light that's set to VERY low. Area LIghts are specifically FOR this process of creating a "layer" or "coating" of light that's baked only.

as you introduce a bkaed light here or there, you shouldn't be seeing MASSIVE spikes in the bake settings.

[cobalt dove]

We had a bug where lights that where copied did not register for bake

[rocky peak]

That's good info

[cobalt dove]

Try to delete all baked lights clear baked data and cretae them again but dont duplicate them

[rocky peak]

also part of why I do this modularly and keep checking my settings

[cobalt dove]

If this is the case Im going to do a bug report

[shadow horizon]

You want me to create and place each light individually again? 😮

[rocky peak]

well.. okay I didn't want to be a snot but you're doing it inefficiently

you shouldn't need TONS of lights to get what you want my friend

Give me about... checks the light map settings size minutes and I'll show you want I'm doing with ONE properly placed area light 😄

6 minutes

[cobalt dove]

I dont want you to do that. Just sharing my experience. You might not have the same bug

[rocky peak]

So I'm going to advice an area light to do most heavy lifting. A reflection prope to help you adjust minutely. Then some beautiful point lights, but A FEW

LMAO but >I< want him to delete his lights

I mean check out. 3 minutes and that area light already gave me JUST right info to let me know I'm in a room

(the splotches on the right are because it's not done baking but it was only a 6 minute endeavor on default settings)

[shadow horizon]

that bake on default settings was 0.6gb

Thats far too mch

I'll delete all lights in the throne room and just use 1 area light

[rocky peak]

Yes I agree has to be your geo

I did just the room righ tand my default bake is 1.2M

HEre's what I did on the Area LIght for mine. BIG. And since you want spooky and barely there, I did 2.3 on that indirect multiplier. Your indirect lighting is going to do a lot of heavy lifting for you

[shadow horizon]

What do i do with an area light xD its just a flat plane

[rocky peak]

It's probably facing down.

[rocky peak]

Area lights start out really small but you should see the handles as yellow dots. It will resize it. A small line poking out it's middle will show you which direction it's facing in.
Area lights are amazing for controlling ambiance. You can face them in the corners of places to really get smooth atmosphere. Treat them light those "reflectors" that photographers use 😄

I'm still baking but here's two lights (aside from the directional, which is set to mixed, btw) in the scene. Alright picking up some good definition (for SPOOKY lighting that is)

[shadow horizon]

Where would i place it and how big to generally light up the room?

[rocky peak]

My area light takes up the whole ceiling in this case

I put at the top of the ceiling - faced it down -and set it to low intensity but lots of indirect multiplication

(also this is no post processing either)

(fr my screenshots that is)

[shadow horizon]

So like this

[rocky peak]

yeap

also it finalized the baking on my side. 6 minutes. Using the "autogenrate" will let you know you're doing something wrong on a small room like this because if you see your autogen go up to 50 minutes and your level is small... that's your queue to say "Well. I did something dumb. But what?"

and please do not misread me I do a LOT of dumb things every day 😄 I'm good at it.

so don't be offended

[shadow horizon]

Ahhh it looks like its working

[rocky peak]

^^

schweet huh?

[shadow horizon]

I see light spots

[rocky peak]

that's the lightmap splotching before it finalizes

[shadow horizon]

Still so massive

[rocky peak]

with baking it ain't over until the fat reflection probe finalizes

and this is with your default?

It might be your throne

it looked complicated

[shadow horizon]

I put it down to 512

[rocky peak]

that should still give you some data

[shadow horizon]

I don't want the build to increase massivly

[rocky peak]

If you're concerned about something being amiss, check your Bkaed LIghtmap and look at your throne

My light maps on a simple square like I have is only 5.3mb

I can't imagine your map is that much more complicated

[shadow horizon]

Seems fine

[rocky peak]

try rmeoving the throne and seeing what happens then. If the lightmap drops in size, there's your issue

it doens't look bad at all e.0

I have default on my lightmap

directional. Cmpress lightmaps. 2 padding. 40 res. Direct Samples and Indirect Samples default

[shadow horizon]

the walls however, have lot of squares

oh, i dont have compress lightmaps enabled

[rocky peak]

try that

[shadow horizon]

Shall i cancel?

[rocky peak]

also for your walls if you think people won't pay that much attention,

Yeah sure

but you can open your individual hierarchy objects, check their lightmapping value, and set them to LOW res.

and then if you think people will be looking at and studying your htrone, set that to high res

I did all of that with JSUT this

After my baking finalized it had this SUPER COLORRIFIC ROOM! And guess what - this is ONE area map. One point light. That's it. My direcitonal too

area light* sorry

so you might bethinking (egads thats ugly). No prob.

After my baking is done, I can adjust this bad boy to make it look more what I want. No waiting for rebakes to happen.

Since I relied on my indirect lighting I was able to pull it down and instantly to see how bright or dark I want it

[shadow horizon]

Wb these?

[rocky peak]

So if I can get THAT sucka to do that much using only three lights, you should be able to do that too 😄 And i know tha'ts frustrating to hear because you're probably thinking "well. WTF THEN!?"

It's so dark in there my friend turn your AO off

You don't just turn that guy on BECAUSE.

[shadow horizon]

Wont it add nice blending though?

[rocky peak]

As dark as it is in your room, no I don't think it's doing much for you

you have to always be strategizing with your lighting the same you strategize with your programming

[shadow horizon]

Oki, baking now

[rocky peak]

you have ot ask yourself how much do I need AO in a dark room? Will it save my lightmap in size? If so. BLAM

[shadow horizon]

Lets hope it works

[rocky peak]

Me too

did you at least learn quite a bit already ? 😄

[shadow horizon]

And it not massive in size

Yea, delete lights and make an area light

got it got it

[rocky peak]

Then I've don e aservice! BWAHAHAH 😄 does the hell yeah dance

also - light explorer is your friend

You can tell I started on the art side of the house huh?

[shadow horizon]

😛

Hopefully this will give some performance increase too

Thats the main thing

Plus stop lights flickering

[rocky peak]

ALways a pain

[shadow horizon]

https://streamable.com/b043rn i have that problem here

But when i bake, it just "bakes" instantly and nothing changes 😛

Different scene

[rocky peak]

check your light explorer

love the ambiance btw

no bake time sounds like it doesn't see any lights set to Mixed or Baked

[shadow horizon]

I made it really bright so people can see in discord, since discord compresses and makes it much darker

Ah, i probably havent set them to baked

[rocky peak]

I lov eit though. Reminds me of Carnevil.

[shadow horizon]

I'll see if this works fine

You can buy the game 😉

[rocky peak]

Light Explorer is your friend 😄

[shadow horizon]

Cheap as chips

[rocky peak]

Was thinking about it but have to get my work done for the day

speaking of which, I had better get cracking. My lunch is over. But DM if it's still being a putz.

[shadow horizon]

Thanks for the help man, I'll let you know 🙂

[maiden lynx]

I have this problem: I've made two different platform, one hexagonal and one rectangular, with the same colors. In the first photo is with only one light, in the second the light is lower in intensity and i've added 2 more spotlights. the problem is that it seems that the two platform have different colors and i can't understand why. pls help

[shadow horizon]

7 hours in and still cant get baked lights to actually work... Does anyone know please

@cobalt dove I've tried everything. if my lights are baked, they stop working

[teal sierra]

Haven't run into that exact issue, but the answer may be in here. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LightMode-Baked.html

[gritty echo]

I'm using URP, and I want to have my fire cast shadows, but I'm using a point light for my fire's light source, and I guess point lights can't cast shadows. Is there any other way to have my fire cast shadows? It looks really weird without shadows.

[plucky tapir]

How do i get a shader to cast lighting on other nearby walls? I can increase the emission of a shader, but it looks horrible in a low-lit room because it doesn't cast any lighting

I made by with some area light, but I would like to learn how to code in light casting in a shader.

[covert stirrup]

Emissive light will cast baked light, but not realtime @plucky tapir. That would require a change to the lighting system

@shadow horizon Can you please make a new scene with just a static plane and a point light set to baked and see if it works there

[supple shard]

I'm not sure if this is the place to ask, but I'm having a bit of a problem: these faint lines appear all over the place when I move, and I don't know what's causing that.

(I'm not talking about the lines of the camera, but the faint grey lines)

[covert stirrup]

The horizontal and vertical lines? That looks like the grid

That's just in scene view

[supple shard]

no

that appears in game view too

maybe having a tilemap + grid affects that?

[covert stirrup]

might be the tilemap yes

Ask in #archived-art-asset-showcase with a screenshot from game view

[supple shard]

ok

thanks

[timber lichen]

Is there anything inherently wrong with using the Progressive GPU baker? The reason I ask is it says it's in preview. However, if I do progressive CPU it would take literal hours to bake my scene, the GPU one said 8 minutes and it was done... So just curious what issues generally come about with Progressive GPU baker.

[covert stirrup]

If it runs without crashing and gives a good result then there's no problem in using it @timber lichen. The end result is a lightmap texture either way. But those two things are not guaranteed while it's in preview

[timber lichen]

Yeah, sounds good - ty

[queen junco]

Does anyone know how to make eyes glow in the dark?

[timber lichen]

@queen junco I'd say just use an Emission Color/Texture. Now I suppose if you want the glowing eyes to affect walls then I'd just put some point lights/spotlights from the eyes.

Bloom post effect can create some good results if you know how to modify the post stack in real-time. Whilst it won't affect walls and such, it can at least give that bloomy affect without needing lights.

[timber lichen]

so i turned off all lights, bcuz i have shadow flickering, but even without lights its happening
https://i.imgur.com/PcwogPO.gif

anyyone knows?

[covert stirrup]

is it Z fighting?

[timber lichen]

oh nvm

seems the models are spawned on each other

[covert stirrup]

so yes. Good 👍

[sharp cedar]

how can I make a completely white scene? (like this scene from Matrix)

[summer aspen]

Set ambient light to white.

[shrewd socket]

@timber lichen for other computers gpu might not be best, also gpu's do math different from eachother for performance reasons, so if you had like 2 computers with different gpus rendering half each of one animation, the color or something might not match perfectly

[rough iris]

Any good tutorials on outdoor lighting?

[whole eagle]

how do i make my shadows semi transparent

[pulsar aspen]

go to your light and set shadow intensity

[shadow horizon]

Looks like colour banding to me. You can help reduce it by enabling dithering on your camera.

Or, since you know the keyword now, go have a Google for potential fixes :)

[supple shard]

It's fine, I already fixed it

I put my tileset into a sprite atlas

[grave yoke]

hi guys. i got a question related to realtime directional light mode. In Lighting window, there's a realtime lighting setup, and I turned off the Realtime GI cause I don't need it (and it's also deprecated). Since I think it's realtime and turned that settings off, I wonder why there's still some baked lightmaps in my settings? It shows there's 2 Directional Lightmaps with size of ~11 MB. I'm using 3D built-in shader, Unity 2020.2.1f1

[covert stirrup]

If you have unwanted baked data click this

[grave yoke]

ok thank you

[hardy rivet]

Anyone know why I'm getting light on the far wall? I've got Lightmap UVs enabled and set to the same resolution as I'm baking

Unlit

It's also not passing across to neighbouring pieces

(yes, they're static)

[warm spoke]

my light in normal setting have very low light but i see in ohter unity light have high light in normal setting. how to fix or is normal?

This probelm for all light

[hardy rivet]

Also what is going in with baking affecting the albedo? Temperature is turned off in the light

[wanton valley]

Hi guys! Why my point light does not emit light for my particles on the left side?! 😮 Am i missing something?

It has a big radius and everything

[timber lichen]

Friends
any idea how to make sun shafts??

[silver zodiac]

here is the front

here are the sides

here is the back

how do i turn off the shadows

or whatever is causing some faces to be black

[summer aspen]

@silver zodiac Set ambient lighting

or use unlit materials if you don't need shadows

[modern root]

any idea why i can't see the skybox? i've followed the steps in here https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/skyboxes-using.html, using URP configured for 2d, perspective cinemachine, keeps only showing the solid color. The material shader is ok i can see it when applied to an object in the scene... though it does work once i remove the URP renderer, in fact it seems to only work with the 3d urp renderer and not the 2d one...

[umbral crater]

hello, I'm getting these weird yellow spots on game objects that have LOD after generating light (using GPU lightmapper), does anyone know how to fix it?

[umbral crater]

In case someone has the same problem, I fixed it by disabling the "Contribute Global Illumination" check on LOD1, LOD2 and LOD3 for every game object that has LODs

[dim sigil]

Hello. I'm completely new to unity and have an extremely limited knowledge. I'm trying to follow a tutorial, but I am having trouble with shadows. As you can see, the sun is creating shadows, but my objects inside are not. I have changed everything to static and watched some videos, but I cannot figure out why there are no other shadows. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[misty panther]

anyone know why my dynamic models in my scene with baked lighting are flat shaded?

lighting settings:

model properties:

hmm

well I think it's because I have no realtime lights

any way to get realtime lighting on my dynamic objects without making everything realtime?

alright: I made a directional light, made it only affect my gun layer

works now

[dim sigil]

Could you erase your message if you got it working so people can see what I asked too?

[covert stirrup]

Area lights don't cast realtime shadows @dim sigil

Only baked. At least by default. In URP/HDRP you might be able to, I dont't remember

[dim sigil]

Sorry, I don't know what URP/HDRP means. Could you elaborate on that?

[covert stirrup]

Render pipelines

[dim sigil]

Are those just different methods of rendering?

[covert stirrup]

Yes you choose it when you start a new project

[dim sigil]

I'm a bit confused why mine would function different from the tutorial I'm watching. In the tutorial, the world has objects that cast shadows despite the same kind of lighting

All the assets came prebuilt in a kit I imported, so I know the lights are the same as the video

Do you know why this might be?

I can show you my lighting settings if it would be of use

[covert stirrup]

Instead of a tutorial on setting up a scene you should watch a more fundamental video about lighting in Unity. It's a big topic

As well as Unity more in general, like the render pipelines. This matters a lot for how your scene looks

I'm heading out now but good luck

[dim sigil]

Okay, thank you for the assistance

[long lynx]

how do i keep the cast shadow of the sphere but remove the shadows i circled here

nvm figured it out

[crisp dagger]

anyone know why my trees lighting is so black?

how do i fix it

[summer aspen]

@crisp dagger Don't cross-post. Pick one channel.
You need to set ambient lighting.

[sharp cedar]

Using GPU lightmapping Im getting these awful results, any way to improve it?

Im using the default settings

[dry arch]

I'm having trouble with large and small objects being affected differently from fog. Is the fog calculation only done once per object? Or am I doing something wrong?

[idle axle]

I'm trying to turn these guys into light panels

kind of like this

is there any way to do that?

[dry arch]

@idle axle i’m new to unity as well but i guess you would use an emissive material and an area light?

[idle axle]

Ive been trying to use the area light but it doesn't seem to want to work

I'll mess around with it some more ig

[spark fractal]

@idle axle add emission to the material

Make sure it's static

Lights like that only work with baked lighting and light probes

if you want this effect in realtime/dynamic there's some methods in HDRP but it still requires trickery

[atomic valley]

Hey guys, I need help using reflection probes.
I have a reflection probe, but the reflections the reflections don't follow the geometry, if you get what I mean.
The reflections just stay in place. The probe is capturing reflections, but it keeps them in place.
If anyone can help, I'd appreciate that.

[leaden reef]

is this is your solution?
https://forum.unity.com/threads/reflection-probe-not-reflecting-some-mesh-object-in-scene.465091/
@atomic valley

[atomic valley]

Hmm

No @leaden reef I have all the reflections, but it doesn't move the reflections with the geometry

Thank you for searching though! You're the best

[leaden reef]

ok actually i don't know

i just googled

lol

[leaden reef]

no i am not best

i am wrost

[atomic valley]

😅 Why?

[leaden reef]

idk

[atomic valley]

Ok thanks!

[idle axle]

@spark fractal nope not working lol

[spark fractal]

@idle axle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnG2gOKV9dw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0JXOZDTKA

[idle axle]

I've watched that first one a hundred times but nothing works

[spark fractal]

Then you're missingsomething

you should be posting details of your whole scene setup

mesh render settings and everything

[safe pewter]

Is there a way to make baked lighting interact with normal maps?

it just looks flat because the baked lighting isn't effected by normal maps

point light works fine so it's not a problem with the normal map themselves

fixed it

had to bake with directional

[quaint gate]

I'm new to unity, does someone know how to remove this?

[true summit]

I think it's because of your materials that you chose

[quaint gate]

Its the "basic" material

I literally just created the material and changed the color

[true summit]

ah ba I do not know how to remove

[mystic dew]

use shadowmask

[spark fractal]

@safe pewter Bakery

[latent saddle]

how do you fully customise bake results- i.e realism and stuff?

[sharp cedar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/771845807699263578/800330978379300894/unknown.png

Whats up with my lighting?

[timber lichen]

I have a problem where my object seems to be ignored by the sun, meaning all light comes through the object geometry and there are no shadows inside

I'm on the HDRP btw

[steel crescent]

Hi guys,
I have a big problem with shadows.
If I want enable shadows on directional light a turn on shadows, happen this to me. If I set resolution to ultra everything is ok, but this shouldn't do this at all, shouldn't it?
I use Unity version 2019.4.15f1 and HDRP

[safe pewter]

why are only one of my lights contributing to baked lighting? Both have the same emissive material, both are static, everything around both ones are static, everything has UVs

[safe pewter]

also why does unity's baked lighting looks SO much worse than lighting baked in blender using eevee

here's it in blender

[timber lichen]

Check your lightmapper settings (Resolution, samples, bounces etc)

How can i make those branches on the left make less reflective and more representative of how wood supposed to look?

So that they would look something like this

[ivory crag]

hey i'm a big noob and i have a really basic question, what's the best way to prevent light bleeding through walls for separate rooms? i'm just trying to light up an entire room a specific colour but i have to expand the point light so much it ends up bleeding into other rooms

https://i.imgur.com/GVTdB9M.png

[sharp wagon]

I have same question about light bleeding.

[fallow bone]

i guess lighting is disabled there

idk

even i am noob

can u send full screenshot

[ivory crag]

i have a point light in a separate room selected there, and you can see how far out i have the radius for it

and the pink is bleeding into the corners there

i somewhat fixed the issue by using mixed lighting instead of realtime and just adjusting how far out the light goes

but it just seems like such a scuffed solution

there's gotta be a better way to light up a room without the corners going dark or with light bleeding out

i just don't know how to do it

https://i.imgur.com/zAZc5RI.png

so this is my having it 'sort of fixed'

but the room in question here, i wish the corners werent darkened, i want it to be uniformly lit up

https://i.imgur.com/oTOv7sX.png

[cobalt dove]

Well you could use the culling mask and set up layers for your rooms

[crisp rain]

Hi. I'm tying to bang my head around baked lighting. So I set up my scene, to have all items static and starting baking lights. I'm actually dissatisfied with the results, as using baked lighting reduces details, e.g. on the floor (see Screenshots). The scene does not have any directional lights, environment lighting is rather low. Anyhow, the first screenshot shows the scene with cleared baking data- Second one with baked lightmaps (please note the lacking floor details), thirs screenshot shows basic lighting setup. Overall my understanding was, that baked lightmaps should have even better shadowing and details then realtime, due to its nature.

baked lightmaps

I probably have a basic misunderstanding, but fiddling around with LM settings did not change my problem of loosing details.

Please note: I disabled any post-processing to not mask issues.

[hasty carbon]

Has anyone else here tried to bake their own cookie cubemaps for point lights in HDRP?

Been pulling my hair out at this all day

Been following the High-Quality Light Fixtures guide by Unity but even when following it religiously, nothing will look right

[timber lichen]

for Lightprobes on a simple wall, is a single layer ok or should I use a double layer box formation?

[ivory crag]

thanks

[spring veldt]

Has anyone ever tried using Bakery for GPU lightmapping? https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/level-design/bakery-gpu-lightmapper-122218#description
How is it compared to Unity's lightmapping system?
Is it better to use for lightmapping or of better quality? How's the speed, is it faster?

Hey, this is a response you posted way back in September, how is using bakery compared to Unity's baking process?

[ivory crag]

@cobalt dove just want to say that this perfectly fixes the issue I was having, never really used unity before but layers seemed so obvious and easy to implement, thanks a ton

[spring veldt]

When building my game, my light map seems to disappear. This is AFTER the build.

This is what it should look like before

This is something that happened after I switched to URP. The light gets crazy messed up after building

I can't figure out why it's happening

[spring veldt]

Heheh... I had Bakery on the project and I didn't clear all the settings @_@

[covert stirrup]

Been using Bakery for almost a year and highly recommend it

[spring veldt]

What are some of the biggest advantages of using it vs the Unity's built in lightmapper?
Is it ease of use, quality, or maybe more functionality? I saw the lightmapping prefabs, so that's pretty neat, but it looks like you can do it with Unity's lightmapper with some jacky scripts.

It takes way longer from what it seems

Also, how's the lightmapping asset size compared to Unity's lightmapper?

[covert stirrup]

Quality of the results and how fast it bakes in comparison

I haven't compared the size of the lightmap assets

[spring veldt]

Hmmm, might I ask what your settings are? I have a 1070 and I have been using Unity's gpu progressive and it's way faster

I put it on the recommended parameters when I first started using it.

I was asking about the asset sizes because I've been trying to reduce my build size.

It's almost 150MB for my project and I've been using mostly 1024x1024 textures and light maps get huge pretty quickly

[covert stirrup]

Can't tell you any specific bake settings, since I've used it in different scenarios. And I never used the GPU lightmapper since it got deprecated

I can run a test now though maybe to see

[spring veldt]

Enlighten was the one that's been deprecated

The results are decent for its speed

[tidal musk]

hi guys .. i am wondering if its normal for all Lightmap-0_comp_light's to be black ... no color at all.

[solemn heath]

Hey
Is there a way to keep baked lighting info when i duplicate an object?

[spring veldt]

Bakery can do that, or you can bake lightnaps on prefabs

@solemn heath

[solemn heath]

oh my god that's aamazing, can you link me a resource on baking lightmaps to prefabs? This is kind of a life and death situation here

[keen crow]

I'm messing around with HDRP for the first time in a while and am getting some unsightly banding - seemingly at the edges of shadow cascades. I've tried changing the shadow distance, resolution and normal bias with no luck. any ideas?

[slender light]

Is there a reason why spotlights and point lights are so dim?

Is it just a matter of exposure?

I want exposure to be high so I can have sunlight very bright,

but it seems to make point and spot lights tiny and dim

[latent saddle]

I’m not a coding expert or anything, but maybe if you use a shader graph you can make it less noticeable by using a gradient type thing to blend the closer parts with the further parts

[golden dock]

baked lights are not visible in shaded mode

it looks like that in baked lightmap mode

how can i fix that?

[spring veldt]

Using Bakery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t7iyVmqG2g
Other ways: https://github.com/nukadelic/Unity-Lightmap-Prefab-Baker

[solemn heath]

thank you so much man!

[slender light]

What's the best way to get a "baseline" setting for light? It seems like when I mess with exposure, either dark areas are bad, or bright areas are bad.
So what is the best setting to start with to base other settings around? Otherwise it's hard to tell if light is wrong, exposure is wrong, or materials are wrong.

[clear crystal]

trying to get my point light to work how they did in classic render pipeline. I updated to unity 2021 and my point lights create shadows... but they dont go far enough. i though i could modify lighting.lhsl (or w/e the file name is) but it doesnt seem to exist in the 2021 library. just looking for ideas to make point lights have greater range in urp

One idea i came across that might work would be to scale my game down

since Im still fairly early in development it wouldnt be a lot of work...

[lavish rock]

Hi is there any explanation why my Sun turns Black?

[timber lichen]

this weird shadow keeps appearing and disappearing where ever I take my camera, this happens in scene view and game

[timber lichen]

Screen Space Global Illumination doesnt require lightprobes to work right? it works off the volume framework?

[tired kindle]

that light pole is marked as static

but as u see it still doesnt cast light down on the terrain

i tried with light probes

still nothing

[spark fractal]

@tired kindle the intensity isn't high enough, the only way to improve it is to up the intensity further, or use something like bakery to force it to be more intense despite the visual.

in this case though it's probably better to just ad da static point light

[tired kindle]

well wouldnt that just eat away all the performance?

[wanton wigeon]

Does anyone know what causes these weird shadows?

[vague rivet]

https://i.gyazo.com/88b159c85543658ae0fb9bc4f65d3c07.mp4

How would I recreate these lasers?

I'm thinking line renderers

[delicate slate]

I'm having trouble finding the Pixel Light count in a 2019.4 URP Project. Google isn't being super helpful (as all the answers are from 2018 versions or older)

[spring veldt]

@solemn heath I wanted to follow up to see if that lightmapping prefab was useful. Did it help you do what you wanted to do?

[solemn heath]

Dude i was just about to write to you, that saved my life ahahaha

deadline for a project was today so

yeah, it worked

@spring veldt i didn't use the one you linked, but i found another one that i managed to get working, but it was your info that got me there!

it was this one https://github.com/Ayfel/PrefabLightmapping

i wish i had the money to buy bakery, it seems WAAAAY better tthan the current gpu lightmapper

[tall verge]

Hello. So I've been having issues with lightmap baking via Enlighten. I added some Lightprobes and Area lights and attempted to rebake the scene. Now, it has been stuck at Bake Visibility for several Hours, and the console gets the error "Failed executing external process for 'Bake Visibility' job." Every 2-5min.

[vague rivet]

Bakery is great i love it

[vague rivet]

Anyone know how to somewhat-simply make these types of "lights"?

[tall verge]

Does anyone know how to fix this error or even what causes it?

[coarse vortex]

The cube is flush against the plane, with a spot light casting upon it. Why is the shadow not lining up with the corners of the cube? Is this a bug, or am I failing a setting somewhere?

Light Settings

Found it. It was the Bias setting

[tall verge]

Still have no idea whats causing it to hang at Bake Visibility with Enlighten. Settings are default. Does anyone have any ideas? I've tried clearing the GI cache and deleting all previous lighting data

[cobalt dove]

@vague rivet the simplest and most effective way to fake it to use a mesh and a shader for that mesh that emulates the transperancy. You can use shadergraph and a simple mask texture that fades towards the edges.

[vague rivet]

@cobalt dove so would I put the texture on a plane..? Or would I shape it to the size I want the light to be or

[cobalt dove]

@vague rivet you would make a simple mesh that aproximates the shape of the beam.

[edgy horizon]

Hi, anyone know why i get those weird lines on the wall?

if i move my camera those line will change

[hoary marsh]

Hello, I'm looking for a way to filter white out of my Render Texture. I found an old shader from back in the day that apparently did this, but i havent been able to get it working. Where would I find something like that nowdays?

[vague rivet]

With Bakery should I use mixed or baked lights?

[vague rivet]

https://i.gyazo.com/7f47e9e218e040971195e2a32771c6bf.mp4

I know I keep asking about lasers and stuff but like, if this is just a mesh how is there so much variation?

[vale flower]

i'd say it uses shaders to increase amount of lines when the laser cone is scaled up and down

[vague rivet]

how does that even work

I get excited when I add a sound 😂

[vale flower]

lots of math magic
i assume it takes the scale and then changes tiling of a laser texture to match

[vague rivet]

So what makes the lasers shoot out then? @vale flower

[vale flower]

enabling-disabling the object
also, now that i rewatch the video, the lasers aren't even scaled to match, the object is probably just scaled up and down without any custom shaders

rotating is done with animations

[vague rivet]

So its like..

just 1 flat image?

with lasers pointed out?

[vale flower]

yeah, applied to a cone

[vague rivet]

A cone?

[vale flower]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone

[vague rivet]

Well I know what a cone is lol

[vale flower]

yeah, just a texture applied to that

[vague rivet]

just now how they work in unity exactly

[vale flower]

with emission on or using an unlit shader

well, you can use 3d modelling software (blender, 3ds max, maya or even probuilder which is a unity plugin) to make a cone, then (unless you use probuilder) import it into unity by drag-and-dropping the model into your project

[vague rivet]

I stopped using probuilder after I got into blender lol

[vale flower]

yeah

[vague rivet]

Why a cone though?

Wouldn't that put them in a circle instead of a flat line/random

[vale flower]

if you do proper UV maps, it won't

[vague rivet]

Hey @blazing yew, why use a cone?

[blazing yew]

(Probably the other Arty! :p)

[vague rivet]

shit

@vale flower hey why a cone? 😂

[vale flower]

it does look like a cone to me

maybe another shape, idunno

[covert stirrup]

A spotlight is a cone https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/ab/8a/d1ab8aeab6db88a379a66fb1677da57b.jpg

[spark fractal]

A baked light is not the same as a real light. Doesn't matter if it's an emissive material or a point light source.

[spark fractal]

shadow bias, NGSS shaddows asset

[tired kindle]

well too late

i faked it with spotlights

[patent oak]

the lines are made because to objects are at the same Z axis. try clicking on the wall and deleting or hiding it. There might be a second one under it.

[edgy horizon]

Yeah it worked that you

[tall verge]

So at this point I've removed light probes, lights, reinstalled unity, and I still can't get this project to generate lighting using enlighten, and I get bright spots that shouldn't exist when using progressive CPU.

[meager stirrup]

for some reason I have no shadows

I have no clue what to do

I have been researching for 2 hours and I have gotten nothing

[stark temple]

Can you screenshot your ground material

[meager stirrup]

I'm not sure what that is...

oh wait

[stark temple]

the material on your ground object

also remove this component as it is doing nothing

[meager stirrup]

this?

[meager stirrup]

ok lol

[stark temple]

can select your cube and focus it with F

do the shadows appear when you are that close?

[meager stirrup]

well there are no shadows period

like you can kind of make out the sides cuz it's a shade darker

but

there is no shadow in contrast of the cube and the white cube

[stark temple]

I'm gonna have to open a new project to see what you could have changed to make this happen

[meager stirrup]

ok

thanks

[stark temple]

change your settings back to how they started

[meager stirrup]

ok

nothing changed

looks the same'

[meager stirrup]

are you on hard shadows?

[stark temple]

yes

[meager stirrup]

because it won't let me changed baked shadow angle to 0

can you send ur entire iinspector?

for the direction light ?

that would be much appreciated

[stark temple]

You can just right click on it and press Reset

Actually, that won't do it

make a new directional light

that's what my settings are

(with shadows on)

[meager stirrup]

making a new directional light didn't do anything

[stark temple]

what happens when you just make a new basic scene and add two cubes to it?

because mine have shadows

[meager stirrup]

literally no shadows

[stark temple]

a totally new scene

[meager stirrup]

oh

[wispy tangle]

Hello guys, would this be the right channel if i have questions about lighting that i want to discus? **

[stark temple]

sure

[meager stirrup]

it works! -ish

why is it

grey ish

[stark temple]

I have no idea what you've done to the previous scene

it's yellowy because the light is yellow

[wispy tangle]

So i have been working with light probes for some time, but it have only been with small scenes, but right now i'm working on a "big" scene, and it seems very overwhelming, any tips on how to get started with a big scene

[meager stirrup]

thanks

[meager stirrup]

how do I make my shadow a little less severe? it makes the shady side of my cube look like a black hole

[languid wing]

Either add more lights or look into ambient lighting

[hoary marsh]

@meager stirrup I would encourage you to check out some art videos on painting and drawing light. Light is pretty straight forward overall. Light reflects from a smooth surface at the same angle as it hits the surface, and it technically does the same on rough surfaces but it has more times to bounce on a scale we dont see so it diffuses faster. There are a lot of art videos on how to work with it. It looks like you only have one light and a floating object. If you had more objects i think you can have unity calculate the bounced light, i havent needed to mess with it for my purposes so? prolly

but yeah, if you set up some other types of lights or a second directional light you can simulate the bounce light pretty easy

[meager stirrup]

I know... I had watched a few videos but spent 30 mins even trying to find the ambient light setting 😂

[hoary marsh]

yeah if you are on the new unity version most of the videos are outdated. they moved stuff all over. its driving me crazy

[meager stirrup]

Also I have been experimenting. The real time consumer is actually trying to find the setting..

[meager stirrup]

Ikr

[hoary marsh]

So ive been watching old guides for things i need, then watching a guide on that specific thing like the shader graphs. they changed stuff and albido is now base color etc.

or i mean i watch a guide on what they changed

[meager stirrup]

M

Ok can u send that?

[hoary marsh]

after i watch a guide on how it used to work. because no new guides haha

[meager stirrup]

It would be very helpful

[hoary marsh]

yeah one sec

[meager stirrup]

Thanks 😊 🙏

[serene galleon]

I dont get lighting at all at this point, I baked the lighting and it looks muddy but the real time directional light thats shining through the door on the left is showing more of the detail on the texture?

[hollow valley]

how do i make object not recieve any light ? Like the object would be pitch black

[covert stirrup]

Use an unlit material @hollow valley

[hoary fossil]

did some beach lighting tests today. here are some 5k resolution images of it

[torpid whale]

wow

looks so reallll

[ruby oxide]

I'm trying to recreate a scene from an unreal engine 1 (1998) game - any tips on how I would go about matching the lighting here. I don't want to use post processing and would hope to be able to do it very cheaply (computationally). I'm a bit of lighting novice, having a bit of trouble - here is what I am looking at

Game Screenshot:

Unity Recreation: Things in general just seem a bit dingier - more gray and washed out - note that I am using the same textures but I can't seem to replicate the vibrant darks in the original

[languid wing]

Original seems to have shadows

e.g. for the stools

also, are they using an unlit shader for the lamps maybe?

probably not but... they seem to have their own irradiance

of some kind

same with the neon sign in the back

[timber lichen]

yeah that seems to have baked emission on, just stick a soft point light on yours should do the trick.

[ruby oxide]

Thanks for the tips!

[modern igloo]

trying to bake lights in my game so I don't need realtime shadows but all my character are blackend or dark color when I 1 directional baked light

here is the issue

[red crescent]

Hey there people. I am trying to bake lighting in my scene and I have run into an odd issue. When I bake I get stuck in a loop and have to cancel. The error I get says Could not read textures from Assets.
I also see Integrate failed on Write Lighting Data job.
And it is moving files from one folder to another so when the light map bakes it tries to bake it then moves the file then bakes it again and moves the file over writing the old one and just does this over and over.
Lastly it seems the file moving issue also happens if I make a change to an image such as update a png in a folder. When I save the new png it moves that file out of its sub folder and places it in the root? Any one ever seen this or have an idea how to fix it?

[final grove]

how do i get my weapon to glow like this in unity?
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/graviton-hand-cannon-abfb7b6e09584a52a13d36739ceb0e71

mine is not glowing in game

[summer aspen]

#💥┃post-processing bloom, resources are pinned in the channel.

[neat lily]

Hey guys, anyone know how I can bake a big scene of static objects without Unity crashing?

[stuck fjord]

can anyone help me with this object? why is it completely black?

[languid wing]

idk, what settings are on the renderer?

[cursive lake]

Can some one help me with make a emergency light system for my game?

[stuck fjord]

Gamma

[languid wing]

Gamma?

I mean what material

[stuck fjord]

I'm not sure what you mean, I made the .obj from point cloud data - using meshlab?

I really don't know what i'm doing tbh 😄

[languid wing]

Click on the "default" object in your hierarchy

On the right side of your screen you will see a MeshRenderer component, in the Inspector

The MeshRenderer will have a list of materials on it

The material determines which shader and textures etc.. the object is using

which is what determines the appearance of the object

[languid wing]

Ok so... it's a sorta black material

and the object looks

sorta black

What are you expecting to see?

[stuck fjord]

but, can you see how some of the other materials 'normal'?

I can apply textures/materials to some of them and I can see the colour, but for this one for instance, when I try to a apply a material to it nothing changes

It just stays black

I really only want the model

Like the default materials square etc

@languid wing example 😦

[languid wing]

It's possible your mesh's normals are messed up

[stuck fjord]

you don't have to tell me what to do - but just some advice 🙏

[languid wing]

did you make the mesh yourself?

[stuck fjord]

yep

[languid wing]

e.g. in Blender?

[stuck fjord]

using meshlab

[languid wing]

Ok I've never used meshlab

but see if there's a button somewhere to recalculate normals

[stuck fjord]

I have blender as well

[languid wing]

something like that

[stuck fjord]

i'm getting desperate 😄

[languid wing]

Or at least a button to show the normals

[stuck fjord]

there's a few buttons alright 😄

[languid wing]

Try some of those "Recompute Face Normals" and "Recompute Vertex Normals" buttons

or Reorient all faces coherently..

those all seem promising lol

[stuck fjord]

ok you can see even in this editor it's black 😦

[languid wing]

Also see if there's something under "view" maybe that is like "show face normals" or "show vertex normals"?

Sorry again never used MeshLab before

and I'm only a beginner in Blender really 😉

[stuck fjord]

I'm doing my university project

I have to make this app for a jewellery company

GOING SO BAD

GET ME OUT 😄

[stuck fjord]

figured it out 😜

[languid wing]

was it the normals?

[carmine hedge]

Hello , i have a big open world map for my car game and wonder what is the best approach to use light in that map ? i learned what is bake - static and moveable object - a little bit light probe - reflection also but i am beginner and wonder about performance because it will be a mobile game. Making my objects static and press generate ligtmapp button is the only way in my mind with informations i have for now but what will gonna looks like that lightmap for entire map and objects ? shudn't i use static with that way or just use dynamic lights based on camera location ? i am loooking for a little guide or advice , Thanks 😄

[neat lily]

Is there any way for Bakes to not take hours or crash ? I'm on a 1.0M Tris + 1.7M Verts and can barely get it to bake with a lightmap resolution of 2

[stuck fjord]

yep

[neat lily]

Hey guys, I'm having trouble with my scene when baking, on a single color terrain, I'm havin weird 'stains' anyone know why?

[scarlet bane]

how do i bake lights

in 2D

[neat lily]

Hmm, so I found that it was a compression error; but this makes my scene lightmaps go from 24MB to 112MB :[

[ocean marsh]

Anyone has any idea as to what i could do to reduce/fix the tearing on the shadows?
The Light component is the light that causes these shadows and the field below it is quality settings.
Though maybe they are supposed that way, although i would expect "High Resolution" shadows to look a little better.
Im not very experienced with graphics and lighting so i would like your opinion.

And sorry if the image is really dark, increasing your display brightness helps a lot.

[vague rivet]

Anyone else seeing these weird square artifacts?

also got this weird shit goin on

[wet locust]

@vague rivet try ensuring the mesh have UV Lightmapping

[vague rivet]

It is

and still doing this

ive deleted and reimported bakery 5 times..

[vague rivet]

The light on the left baked nicely with the soft halo on the ceiling, the right one is blocky

[vague rivet]

jesus I hate lighting

https://i.gyazo.com/373d32ebf2df21d69e6d186353c88194.png

just keep getting stuck here with bakery.

[digital delta]

mmm someone knows why is this happening wit the shadows on terrain's trees?

[frozen crypt]

@stuck fjord what on God's green Earth did you make? Delete that model. Create a torus. In object mode press Ctrl+4. Export.

[languid wing]

Hey, it's called Art!

[frozen crypt]

@digital delta yea, it has something to do with your shadow cascades. Don't remember it off the top of my head.

[stuck fjord]

@frozen crypt these are models people have made

And have been scanned lmao

[frozen crypt]

Yall wild

[solemn heath]

How do i make terrain trees cast baked shadows?

@spring veldt do you know?

[solemn heath]

realtime

baked

like, no self-shadowing, it just looks AWFUL

[spring veldt]

@solemn heath did you try increasing lightmap size? There should also be a parameter for shadow size in the light setting, try increasing that