archived-lighting

[supple carbon]

since i made the project about 4 months ago on the same version of unity

[olive iris]

What is stopping you from clicking create new project or new scene?

[supple carbon]

Nothing i was just never worried about it. even in a new scene it still doesnt work

[olive iris]

How about a new project from the Hub?

[supple carbon]

imma make a new one and see if it works

Nevermind i fixed it

[olive iris]

And? What did you do?

[supple carbon]

i forgot i turned Baked Global illumination off

[olive iris]

😅 Yeah, that would be the first thing to check on your own. 😄

[supple carbon]

never knew it stopped those really dont do baked lighting

[odd flax]

mixed

[gaunt kite]

ANy idea what could cause this

this world is for vrchat so its on 2018.4.20f1 I think

[gaunt kite]

SOLVED! https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ProgressiveLightmapper-UVOverlap.html

It was a UV overlap issue, I wasnt generating UV's on imports, so it was kinda cramming shit together

[opaque ice]

noob question - how do i reduce the sun lighting , the intensity is too high

[olive iris]

You answered your own quesotion...you find the directional light or just click on the sun light on top right under the skybox...and reduce it.

[opaque ice]

sorry , but which option ?? there is no sun light option under skybox

[brazen lion]

Hello guys,
I am doing engine research for our next projects and I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction. We plan to do a sandbox game where every object in the game can be built/destroyed by a player. Therefore all the scene is going to be fully dynamic. My question is - does Unity support dynamic lighting without baking lights? So far I have encountered only baked lightmaps + light probes (which we also can't use). Also, is there a solution for dynamic reflections? (myabe screen space reflection with dynamic probes?)

[olive iris]

The light itself....

[gaunt kite]

Check the intensity of your directional light @opaque ice

[dense parrot]

If I have the real-time GI and baked lightmaps turned off, and I hit “generate lighting” what happens? All I can think is it bakes the ambient light probes

Did you want this answered?

In “project settings > quality” I recall a setting that’s light “max point light count”, you may try that

[dense parrot]

Depends on your target. If mobile, then low as possible. If it’s high end PCs, you could go as high as 100 without significant impact I would assume

Objects are drawn once per pixel lights that touch them. So an object within range of 100 lights is as costly as 100 objects

I would test performance on your ideal machine, I can’t make a guess as there’s a lot of factors

[sullen acorn]

i'm a very begginer and i wanna make a project , but the last project i made looked very dead because of the ligth and the look in general , it seemed too "original cube" (well it wase made with cubes but still)
also ligth is very frustrating cuz there is always a part of a cube that is totally black
any advices on how i can make my game look alive and flashy

the only solution i found for now is to put two directional ligths

[grim magnet]

hey guys is ther a way i can make all 4 of my walls not dark? or do i need 2 directional lights

[stark temple]

@sullen acorn @grim magnet change the ambient light (Environment Lighting) or bake lighting. Both can be done in the Lighting Window https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/lighting-window.html

[sullen acorn]

thaaaank youu

@grim magnet i think so , or u could make a spoligth

[grim magnet]

i dont see that but ill try to find it thanks

yea i tried to put the directional light up top

but it didnt work

nothing is ambient lighting and the 3-4 options

dont work

[grim magnet]

i dont have that or its not the same

i think i found it

i like the 2 directional lights better

when i dup this one tho it doesnt work out compleatly right

makes it mega bright

[olive iris]

Bake lighting?

What pipeline are you using?

You should add skybox.

[mossy pivot]

Duplicating a light just means double the brightness - you need half intensity on both now. Lighting does not reach a nice peak brightness - it just gets brighter and brighter until the whole scene is white or light color. Also the total brightness is ambient + all lights hitting an object. Lighting isn't easy!

Hopefully there is a tutorial on Unity's site

[olive iris]

@grim magnet https://youtu.be/ZtpmfpEJFtc

[olive iris]

@grim magnet https://youtu.be/v89oQUYp-jk

[timber lichen]

How to create a showroom style interior with more than ten ceiling lights...when I tried only two lights is getting active...

[timber lichen]

Where can I find it I couldn't locate it...if possible can you share a screenshot

[olive iris]

What pipeline are you using?

[somber dragon]

hey I need to ask about lighting in unity editor
learning the tutorials, but the illumination is not sufficient for me, how do I setup a proper lighting to see my objects properly

[olive iris]

What is proper? @somber dragon What did you try? What do you want it to look like?

[somber dragon]

I want to add illumination around the shadows so that I can see then

by default theres just a directional light,

how do you add ambient occlusion to it, I think thats the lighting term

[olive iris]

There is literally two links above your question that might be relevant to you.

[somber dragon]

ok thx

[olive iris]

Try them out. And come back if you need more.

[timber lichen]

can anyone help me? How do i turn on volumetric lighting ?
i'm new to unity

[olive iris]

Are you telling me you did not find the answer online?

[timber lichen]

i tried to search on youtube

but it's not working

i should have like this

[olive iris]

What did you search for?

[olive iris]

What link showed up?

[timber lichen]

Can you just help me

[olive iris]

I am helping you to be a life long problem solver on things all of us know are on the internet if you just know how to search for it.

[stark temple]

Do not cross-post.

This has already been discussed in #💻┃unity-talk

[timber lichen]

sorry

[olive iris]

And if you can not find it. I might make the video for you. So, show me what you found. Because I find it hard you could not find one of the top ranking topics in this server, and online.

[timber lichen]

ok

thank you

[olive iris]

@timber lichen How old are you?

[timber lichen]

14

[olive iris]

I suspected so.

@timber lichen I dont expect you to know how to find information as easily at age 14 🙂

But, you can learn. 😄

So you want to do volumetric lighting? Do you know what unity version you are using and if you are using hdrp or urdp or ?

[timber lichen]

i just want volumetric lighting

2019.4.22

[olive iris]

And what pipeline?

Your screenshot does not reveal it.

[timber lichen]

i saw on youtube that i need to have HDRP for volumetric lighting

and i don't have that option there

i have pipeline

[olive iris]

You know the window where you create new projects, unity hub?

@timber lichen Do this for now by creating a new hdrp project

[timber lichen]

yeah but i already have a project

i don't want a new one

[olive iris]

Why are you not following a youtube tutorial next?

[timber lichen]

oh it was not volumetric lighting

[drifting panther]

guys so my shadows aren't rendering

[timber lichen]

URP.I was creating an environment with hdrp then I came to know it's not working properly for mobile games so switched to URP

[olive iris]

https://www.amitgp.com/how-to-ask-game-dev-tech-questions/

[golden tapir]

Anybody can help me because i got a scene with floor and walls and the floor is fully illuminated even tough the light is in spot mode the light is baked btw

[prime thicket]

on your lighting settings, on the enviroment tab, mess around with the skybox intensity

[gaunt kite]

What causes this muddiness?

It only seems to occur on the walls, which have this plaster texture

Still clustering, but I dont think its gonna fix once its all done

Wil keep updated

Could it be a result of Area Error?

[gaunt kite]

Ok switching from soft to hard shadows seems to fix it!

[olive iris]

Increase your texture resolution for the walls or everything.

[olive iris]

Check videos above

[solid sluice]

im having an issue with shadows on my terrain, when the camera gets further from the terrain the LOD of the terrain decreases and it causes these errors

the X shaped shadows on the side of the hill

would appreciate any advice

[mint folio]

I'm not very good at unity, I have been doing a lot of research in Shaders and RP's as of recently and I would recommend looking at the render pipeline your using in the project manager and messing with the shadows there to see if you can fix it.

Also, that's most likely an optimization unity has automatically implemented into the pipeline your using, so it should be editable in the project manager

[silk lichen]

so, I have an enclosed room but the floor still gets this sun reflection like there were no walls or roof around it, how can I stop this reflection from being rendered?

[warm gyro]

is there a Bakery equivalent for AMD cards? im using 2018.4.20f1 Im trying to bake lights on my first ever map and dont wanna wait 3hrs just to have to slightly tweak settings and wait another 3hrs

[bitter ice]

i really love that

[balmy agate]

What's up with this fog being stuck to the ground

I've tried googling this error but I can't seem to find anything unless I'm just googling the wrong things

I can't figure out why in the world it's doing that

It's almost like the fog is baked into the ground texture data or something

I'm using Unity 2021.1.0b11.2079 with the URP template

[mint folio]

probs need to mess with the URP in project manager

[stray lily]

my lights are not working, when I restart the level they go dim

[muted karma]

Hi, everyone.

I'm stuck at some weird moment with URP Light. My point light not working, but directional works good. In pipeline max lights set to 8.

[woven crane]

How can I make ambient lighting more intense?

I want these shadows to be gone

In the lighting window the max is 1

But I need more

[covert stirrup]

If you don't want shadows you should use an unlit material @woven crane

[woven crane]

Sorry but, I cannot find any option like that in the material window, where is it?

[covert stirrup]

change the shader at the top

[woven crane]

I tried unlit and

it worked a little too well

I basically just need the shadows here to be softer

like noticable

[covert stirrup]

Try lowering the intensity on your directional light instead perhaps

[woven crane]

No it isnt working, although I am trying out brackeys tutorial on how to add post processing

I will try to mess around with shadows in post processing and make it work there

[wanton valley]

Hi guys. Please help me. I get strange shadows flickering when move camera and my player https://imgur.com/a/Xt0uPht

What am I missing?

[mystic dew]

seems like your VFX books not rendering when its out from camera view?

[wanton valley]

How can I fix that? It seems only the shadows are flickering, the books themselfs did not bug @mystic dew

[olive iris]

you have videos on top showing you how to do this properly

[drowsy pelican]

finally got raymarched volumetric lighting working in URP

probably needs lots of optimization but renders in <5ms on gtx 1650

[drowsy pelican]

wow, seeing a lot of frowny faces in lighting.hlsl

[timber lichen]

Hi folks, can an emissive material dynamically light other objects in a scene? I have a movie texture and I wanted to know if I can make it illuminate objects in the scene.

[balmy agate]

Where is the project manager

[balmy agate]

Nvm I was able to fix the fog problem by splitting the ground up into several different cubes

[scenic summit]

hi, my lightmap doesn't detect my gpu

how to fix it?

in baking

[supple patrol]

you sure your vfx doesn't get culled? Try increasing the box for those effects

[wanton valley]

@supple patrol Hey! Yes, I tried to tweak the whole boundary box (AAbox)
Made it 1000 x 1000 x 1000 but the problem still persists.

The VFX particles does not disappear. The problem is only in the shadows :/

[sharp cedar]

Isnt 2021.1 supposed to have a new realtime gi system?

[lone pier]

This keeps happening to my scene when I try to build the lighting. Could someone let me know what causes this and how I can prevent/fix it?

[frail quartz]

How is this room being lit? I have no lights inside at all. I want it to be completely dark so I can add my own lights.

I also want to know why only the sidewall I am looking at is lit. Shouldn't the wall to the left and top of it also be lit?

[austere drum]

is it possible to control global illumination intensity per object unity?

for a moving object?

I have a cockpit whos brightness I would like to ramp up as screens turn on effectively faking light coming into the cockpit

any idea on how this could be done?

[errant rose]

what's old is new again, yes. enlighten real-time GI is coming back in a new implementation for URP & HDRP. looks like this and other GI features are being tracked on a new roadmap page: https://portal.productboard.com/unity/1-unity-platform-rendering-visual-effects/tabs/64-global-illumination

[olive iris]

The issue is the bright spot?

[olive iris]

Turn off ambience under lighting tab.

[errant rose]

you could bake lighting with a bunch of area lights (one for each screen), then animate & interpolate textures/lightmaps from the "screens off" state to the "screens on" state. or something similar, like you were saying if you could just animate the amount of GI intensity / contribution that could work too though i'm not sure exactly how to do that.

[olive iris]

Add light sources for that?

[errant rose]

yeah i mean you could use real-time lights for the interior cockpit instead of baked lights, it will just cost you in performance.. especially if you want it to look physically accurate.

so, just a consideration depending on your platform and performance budget

[errant rose]

not sure if you are using fully baked GI or real-time GI with probes? that and which render pipeline you are using are likely to be factors in how you would accomplish this exactly.

[supple patrol]

maybe bake multiple lightmaps with separate monitors on, then use a technique like this one?
http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/LightMapSwitcher?_ga=2.230081688.584468206.1615907991-1397480526.1601299161

Propably finicky to set up, maybe limiting in features later on but would safe system ressources.

[errant rose]

cc @austere drum I was looking at this, though currently it seems Lightmaps must be copied from RenderTexture on the GPU to Texture2D on the CPU which has a hefty performance cost to do in real-time / every frame which would be required for a smooth blend transition between lightmaps. It seems Unity devs are open to improving Lightmaps to support RenderTexture in the future however as the discussion this forum thread shows: https://forum.unity.com/threads/support-supplying-lightmaps-as-texture-instances-rather-than-texture2d.993138/

[errant rose]

so, since blending between 2 lightmaps is not very feasible (right now) I followed up on your original idea to just control the intensity / contribution of Baked GI. (which is all you need for your particular use case.) this Shader Graph example with HDRP is very much incorrect in the sense that I haven't taken the time to fully replicate the Lit shader in shader, but i did prove that it would be possible to add such control using Shader Graph via this Baked GI node which is available for both URP and HDRP: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@10.4/manual/Baked-GI-Node.html

[thorny tundra]

Guys do you know what happened here? I can't alter any lights or add new ones. New ones don't project anything either

Oh and on other levels where lighting still works, if I turn auto generation off they turn off too and don't turn back on even if the auto generation is turned back on

[frail quartz]

What is wrong with the lighting in my room? There are no lights inside at all, but some walls are still lit. I turned off ambient lights in Light Settings. Some of the walls are purely black too and the floor is lit infinitely.

[austere drum]

wohha you guys are awesome!! @errant rose @supple patrol @olive iris !

this is meant to run on the quest. aka 4 year old mobile tech at 72 fps haha

so real time lights are a no go

[supple patrol]

you figured it out? how did you achieve your goal?

[austere drum]

not yet! was going to take the day to figure this one out

we have thought about doing a shader based approach, but then this would involve animating like 10 material at the same time for this effect

the end goal can be quite crude

basically cockpit glowing at full bright and then none.

as screens turn on I just ramp this up.

ive not messed with light probes and wondered if I could parent them to my cockpit? as to carry around there own bake information with the mech and then some how turn up and down the intensity as needed.

this would reduce the amount of friction when designing as they would effect all materials they are in contact with.

[austere drum]

is there a method for doing this? basically have the cockpit carry around its own mini pack of light maps?

[supple patrol]

pretty sure you can add lightprobes to prefabs, but i don't think it would work for a moving object

[austere drum]

ohh this is super interesting!

[austere drum]

yeah its interesting, I dont need half the tech that light probes provide just the local independence that controls light intensity

[upbeat trench]

how do i fix this i dont wnat it to show black!

how do i fix this i dont wnat it to show black!

[austere drum]

add an hdri to the sky or play with the enthronement ambient light values

[upbeat trench]

thank ya

[austere drum]

set skybox to gradient under the lighting tab. top right of the unity editor

[wanton valley]

Hey guys. I still have this problem #archived-lighting message
Any idea?

[static jackal]

Sent this in 3d channel but its way more relevant here

Fog lights up dark places way too much, is there something i can do to it?

This is wihtout fog (too dark as i tried turning ambient light down to fix the first one)

[supple patrol]

post your fog volume settings

[static jackal]

Managed to narrow it down to being about the terrain that i used as the ground

It doesnt seem to play well with lights :(

[brazen lion]

Hello guys, can you please tell me, did the Global Illumination Ray tracing override got removed in Unity 2020.2. ? When I started the HDRP+DXR example project in v2019 the option was still there.

[late smelt]

Anybody any idea why my second portal isnt being lit even tho its a direct duplication just with a sprite change

[static jackal]

What causes this banding? Is there easy way to mitigate it?

[pulsar aspen]

check your quality settings

check light settings, bias etc

[static jackal]

Got that solved, been playing with lighting non stop :D

I have another issue now

Why does this object catch ambient lighting, the selected object is shadowscasting box

leaving a gap between the wall and the shadow caster seems to work

[olive iris]

Videos for that are above

[dusky wolf]

Hi guys, I'm hoping this is the right channel but how can I make this object, or I guess the material to not have shadows on it and have it's emission not be affected by directional light

this is how it's supposed to look

[static jackal]

You would have to make a shader for that

If you are on universal render pipeline you can use the unlit base shader they provide and start from there

[dusky wolf]

I am using a shader but it seems like the directional light is overpowering the emission, I used the HDRP template and made a new scene with HDRP, the difference between the screenshots above is me turning on/off the 'Sun' which is the default directional light in that scene

[solemn sigil]

What can cause my baked lighting to look like this?

These are my settings

[stable patio]

it looks like you have wrong bias on your direction light

[olive iris]

Bias on your light

[upbeat trench]

what videos

[solemn sigil]

Thanks guys!

I use URP and it seems to be hard to adjust the biases correctly. Feels like no matter what value I put there's artifacts

[summer aspen]

At least one solution is to set on Mesh Renderer to cast shadows Two Sided

[solemn sigil]

That does seem sligthly better. Thank you!

[timber lichen]

is there any way to have shadows with real time lighting

[stable patio]

you see light going through because your mesh is flat shaded meaning vertices/edges aren't connected, if you were to smooth out the models it would fix light passing through character, also if every polygon will be flat you can make shader to turn even smoothed out model into flat one without disconnecting vertices/edges so light will cast properly.

[solemn sigil]

Oh I didn't know edges were disconnected in flat shading

Any way to achieve good shadows with flat shaded models? I'd rather not change the models

[cyan bronze]

Flat shading doesn't mean your edges/vertices aren't connected, it means that the polygon has one normal vector across the entire surface which is what gives the surface it's flat look since the normal vectors aren't being interpolated between vertices like with Phong shading.

[vague nexus]

hey guys does anyone know a technique to make a sun appear in the sky? like some sort of sprite but infinitely far away? without putting it in the skybox cuz i want it to move

[rustic wren]

How do you guys deal with area lights and specular highlights? If I use a point light here set to mixed, I get nice specular highlights on the ceiling (first light in picture). But if I use an area light, which looks more accurate, I get no specular highlights (far back in the picture).

I have reflection probes here, but they don't seem to help.

Furthermore, it would be very nice if I could just have emission here without any lights, and then bake that. But again, that yields no specular reflections despite there being a reflection probe.

[thorn musk]

I've been fiddling with the lighting settings on the light inspector, but can't seem to be able to reduce the intensity. Any clue?

Trying to make it look like this (Blender view)

[summer aspen]

@thorn musk You usually want some environmental lighting to not have completely black blind spots and direction lighting for shadows.

[thorn musk]

@summer aspen Sure, but how would that be achieved on Unity?

[summer aspen]

Setup environmental lighting

[thorn musk]

@summer aspen I intent to do so, but what I was hoping for was instructions on how to do so.

[summer aspen]

You should lookup environmental lighting. Exploring manual is important when learning, there's a lot of additional information in there.

[thorn musk]

@summer aspen I have been looking at the manual. It seemed to me that my question was quite clear, though: I asked for clues; I don't see how suggesting to look into the manual would qualify as one.

Needless to say, there is no need to contribute if you don't wish to, so engaging with my request in a way that contributes to nothing isn't a wise use of either of our times, right?

Anyone have any suggestion on steps to set up the lighting in the first screenshot to look like the second?

[summer aspen]

This is a learning server. You should at least be able to google what you were pointed at as a solution. Make at least some effort.

[thorn musk]

@summer aspen Sorry, I have more than once highlighted that I have made an effort. There are many other learning servers I'm a part of where help was provided upon my asking identical questions.

In fact, throughout this conversation, I have been working on it. The assumption that I haven't is something you couldn't possibly have a basis for.

[summer aspen]

So which part of googling environmental lighting in Unity did you find difficult? https://www.google.com/search?q=environmental+lighting+unity&oq=environmental+lighting+unity&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10j35i39i362l8...8.406j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

@thorn musk I suggest you concentrate on solving your problem and not spamming the channel instead.

[thorn musk]

@summer aspen None of it. I have opted to ask a question instead. There is nothing obliging you to engage with my question nor any use in you doing so in that manner. I would like to move on with asking for assistance, can we do that?

@summer aspen I have already tried to move on with our conversation since 13:12, as you can see in the log. If you don't mind, I'll start ignoring your remarks in the interest of focusing on the issue.

[summer aspen]

!mute 310876730506084363 1h Let me help you.

[tawdry schooner]

Lox#1819 was muted

[median isle]

Could someone tell me why the game play preview is so grey compared to the editor? How do I fix this?

[summer aspen]

Top left icons on the scene view, see if you have effects like fog turned off.

[median isle]

@summer aspen That did the trick but in game view its still foggy. Does that mean the final product will be foggy too?

[summer aspen]

Yep. Lookup fog settings, should be in Lighting.

[median isle]

Thank you very much @summer aspen

[rocky lodge]

Is there any solution as to why this wall isn't receiving light even if the point light is in front of it? it happens whenever I put a light close to a model... But if I can't do that, how am I supposed to put lights on walls? 😭

[summer aspen]

Should point out which render pipeline is in use here. It could be max limit of lights reached or unlit shader used in material, which would ignore lighting entirely.

[rocky lodge]

I'm using the built in pipeline and I only have one directional light and that point light!

[summer aspen]

And what shader the wall is using?

[rocky lodge]

the standard

[summer aspen]

@rocky lodge How did you construct the wall?

is it default object?

Create default cube and place it in front of the wall. Does it receive the light?

[rocky lodge]

no!, its a simple model i did on blender, all vertex are closed and the normals are seemingly ok

[rocky lodge]

sure wait

[summer aspen]

it's likely that normals are inverted

and rendered as double sided material

[rocky lodge]

Its not touching yet it does the same

[summer aspen]

Does the cube receive the light?

[rocky lodge]

nope

that wall is the cube

it gets, but just a tiny bit

where as the other object is way more bright and it's further from the light source

[summer aspen]

If it receives the light then issue is with the light, not bright enough or spread out to large distance. Did you try increasing intencity?

[rocky lodge]

the thing is, it receives light, buuuut whenever i put the light closer to the geometry it goes dark

[summer aspen]

The light has near plane setting for that

[rocky lodge]

oh really? is it in project settings?

I can't find it haha

[summer aspen]

it's on the light

[rocky lodge]

oh I tried modifying that but there's no change 🥲

[summer aspen]

play around with settings, maybe on the renderer. Something controls light precision, where it starts, it also could be shadow related

[rocky lodge]

I'll try playing around settings. I've been searching all day on google but i haven't fin anything

[summer aspen]

By default light works up to the point of contact, so something was changed.

[rocky lodge]

I have been messing with the config for making it run better on mobile, I have never done something like this so I'm a bit lost in this haha thanks for the help, I hope I repair it asap

[rocky lodge]

I changed this and now it seems to work at least better :D

idk what this does but if I put it at 2 doesn't do that weird thing from before

[summer aspen]

Yep, at 0 it break close range lighting.

[rocky lodge]

one last question, does it affect much on performance?

[summer aspen]

I have no idea. If you want performance URP supposed to be better for mobile performance in some configurations. I don't have personal frame of reference.

[rocky lodge]

oh well.... I started all this on the built in and when I change to urp my shaders stop working. And one of them is script shader so I have no idea how to fix it hhaha well thanks again for your help!

[summer aspen]

Shader Graph is easy to get into and recreate most of the stuff. Should ask in #archived-shaders .

[rocky lodge]

sure thx

[cyan bronze]

Based on that scene there the far back light is more realistic. You wouldn't really get specular highlight on the ceiling like the first one if the light is inset into the ceiling. The highlights you would get on a ceiling like that in real life would usually be bounce light from other reflective surfaces in the hallway. My suggestion would be to change the wall and floor material to be something slightly reflective to capture nice specular highlights rather than the ceiling. Though if the ceiling is your specific goal I'd opt for sticking with a point light. It's not the most realistic, it just depends on whether realism is your goal.

[wanton valley]

Yo. Why my directional light goes through the terrain ? I am using HDRP 7.5.3

Is this bug?

Its something from Anisotropy setting, it is allow the light to comes through

[orchid solar]

Reflection Probe isn't capturing environment, just the skybox

Help pls

[meager juniper]

I hope this is a good place for this-

My flare is being weird

This is the texture

This is how it shows

How do i fix this?

[silk lichen]

guys does realtime light make light probes useless? I'm trying to implement a day-night cycle in my game but I'm not sure how that would work with bounce lights on non-static objects (URP 2020.1)

[cyan bronze]

Are the objects you're looking to reflect set to static? You can't reflect dynamic objects in a baked reflection probe unless you set it to custom and include dynamic objects. Though as far as I know this only bakes the dyanmic object into the reflection, it won't be a realtime reflection.

[orchid solar]

I wish I knew that. I downloaded a script that captures the cubemap of the environment @cyan bronze thank you I'll try that out

[cyan bronze]

Yeah so that's what the bake function of the reflection probe is doing. It's capturing a cubemap of the environment from the spot which the probe is located.
Hopefully you get it sorted out 🙂 good luck!

[orchid solar]

It worked thanks

My spotlight isn't visible

[cerulean belfry]

hi, i was directed here from #💻┃code-beginner so i could ask for help on #💻┃code-beginner message. anybody? i have the description on the linked message

[cerulean belfry]

nevermind, i got it figured out

[dusk mica]

hi guys someone know why i have this options disabled?

[mellow sierra]

You have to be using the 2D renderer with URP to access 2D Lights.

[wanton valley]

Hi guys. Please tell me why my shadows are flickering like that? I am using HDRP https://imgur.com/a/w5ZhYeJ

Tried everything and cannot find the reason :/

It is something from the grass

[spark fractal]

Nope tree's cull for some reason on terrain

I had this problem myself and i have no idea what the solution is

This is less a shader problem more a unity problem, for some reason they cull trees including the shadows.

I'm not sure why this is not a more well known issue 🤔

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-terrain-trees-culling-shadows.874168/

I posted about this here a long time ago but never got a response on how to fix it

[hard grail]

Anybody have a weird issue where when they bake lighting, volumetric light doesn't appear?

What would cause that

exact same light prefab, on the opposite side of the room

one shows volumetrics, the other doesnt

I have a bunch of lights acting like this

[quick saddle]

anyone know a good tutorial on sun rays?

I looked in google but all I find are assets

I want to learn how it's done

nvm found this

https://github.com/robertcupisz/LightShafts

[brazen lion]

Hello guys, can you please help me? I am trying to find out a solution for a problem, where my completely enclosed room is being lit from Sky and Fog Volume. I'd like to have a complete darkness there. The scene needs to be completely dynamic.

later on I want to have a directional light coming through a window and the room will be partially lit with GI

But for now I can't figure out how to make this pitch black

[supple patrol]

A "solution" would be to have a local Volume with different Lighting Settings. But I can't tell you if this is a hacky workaround or a valid solution to your problem.

[olive iris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtpmfpEJFtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v89oQUYp-jk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cjKPU_3A4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plp-LEm_G4A

[olive iris]

It says shadow right under it.

[timber lichen]

It doesn't work

Oh I screenshotted the wrong thing

The shadow wasn't working in realtime

[olive iris]

You add a second non shadow casting real time light.

[olive iris]

It works. You are just doing something you are not suppose to do be doing.

[timber lichen]

Not for me

There's an error when i put shadows on

[rustic wren]

Won't that add extra lighting?

[timber lichen]

I'll screen shot it when I get home

[olive iris]

seens like a flare or fog issue but unsure since your screen does not show the light settings.

[olive iris]

You do that.

[olive iris]

Super cheap.

[rustic wren]

No I mean won't that literally contribute to more lighting in the scene

which is not what I want

[olive iris]

Not if you balance it out.

You divided the intensity.

So if you have 5 right now, you can do 3 and 2 etc

[olive iris]

There is a flare already in Unity, open it up and check it out first.

[olive iris]

Because you are baking it and not using mixed lighting on your light or real time?

[olive iris]

Lighting Tab - Environment Reflection and Skybox, play with them such as turning them off or into black.

[timber lichen]

I have to use baked lighting which i completely suck at

[olive iris]

it says it clearly that it is not suppose to work for point lights using the pipeline you are usinag right now.

[timber lichen]

Ok

So the pipeline im using is not supported

Didn't know that jeez

[olive iris]

you are using URP I assume

[timber lichen]

yes

[hard grail]

I have mixed on all my light sources

[hard grail]

I'm also getting a lot of lights just not baking at all

That's it baked

thats without a bake

It seems to be related to shadow mask

If I select 'baked indirect'

They appear fine

[worldly nova]

Hey guys looking for some help to understand lighting systems

So im trying to have a nice clean mesh with like deleted faces that will never be seen

but when i do, shadows seem to be strange

why is there that diagonal column of shadow, why is it all not a shadow from the ceiling of this mesh

[worldly nova]

fixed by just making mesh have faces on each side

[wet locust]

@olive iris what do you know about 'peter panning'? Is it unavoidable? Only thing I have seen is to turn the bias down, but that doesn't fix the problem

it's bad enough the shadow doesn't meet at the bottom of the shelf, but it shows books which would be impossible to cast a shadow through the shelf

I recreated it with just regular cubes to rule out any mesh issues;

the light comes in roughly the angle of the red line. That's f'ing horrid. I didn't realise Unity was so terrible. When I googled it I found the name 'peter panning' but no solutions.

Is there anything you can tell me about it? Am I really stuck with this crap? It makes me want to use a different game engine

[lilac fern]

It might be related to this. Check the very bottom message and watch the video. https://forum.unity.com/threads/shadows-not-working-with-draw-instanced-on-split-terrains-in-hdrp-7-5-3.1061891/

[lilac fern]

You need to use real time GI, which isn’t available in 2020. It’s coming back in 2021.2. It’s there currently actually in the most recent release of 2021.2. It’s in the lighting settings.

[olive iris]

@wet locust Try this as you pointed out, to be sure you tried it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plp-LEm_G4A

@wet locust If that does not work it could be good to just have a look at how I might light first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn4Q_WRYxec

@wet locust Other things can be your mesh, like normals being wrong or you might need two sided shadow turned on, if you are baking it can be too low settings etc

[olive iris]

No, it is just something with your settings, mesh, modeling, and so on.

[olive iris]

Or turn on two sided shadows if I understood it correctly

[olive iris]

First, get your lighting correct without the volumetric. Those volumetric can also be done as cheap mesh god rays.

[wet locust]

Yes I watched the video about bias and that's exactly what I tried already. It reduces the gap but it's still really far like the screenshot I shared

In regards to the mesh, I ruled this out by doing a test using regular Unity cubes

I showed one shot already (with the red arrow line on it) which is just cubes arranged with the same point light. Here is another one where I have a point light above a stretched out cube. There should be no way for the light to go through/around but there is still a gap:

[olive iris]

I will think about it or you can send just that scene project to me and I will look at it.

[hard grail]

Im using HDRP, even so, even with volumetrics turned off, the lighting appears incorrect. In some cases, the lighting doesn't appear at all

[dawn cape]

Can anyone here help me with hdrp lighting?

Trying to light up this scene without killing my framerate

[rustic lark]

I've learned that 2d lighting is a thing in unity - I want to simulate the sun but it's a little difficult because with a point light you generally get one area being better lit than the rest. I honestly don't know EXACTLY what I want, but I'd like it if my hills had more depth and had darker shades at the top. Does anyone know the right direction to point me in? Here's a screenshot of my dumb game 😛

(PS - yes this game is exactly what you think it is. Shhh :P)

[silk lichen]

Understood, thank you

[orchid solar]

After generating lighting this happens, help please

[split grail]

hey guys, i just did a full lighting generation and then i erased my directional light to see some stuff and now that i added another one, whenever the lighting does the process my walls and so look like this:

[split grail]

guess im kinda getting same problem as you 😄

[split grail]

still a little glitchy for me but i unticked "static" on a wall and ticket it back and the lights generated again and everything is back to normal

[orchid solar]

You just excluded the wall from the lightmap I believe

[split grail]

maybe idk, but it fixed all the other walls after reprocessing the lighting

idk if that's the issue you're having but kinda looks a little so you can try that out

[olive iris]

Exactly. Focus on lighting it first.

[olive iris]

What is the issue for you?

[olive iris]

What is it you want?

[split grail]

my walls keep getting like that whenever I generate lighting

[orchid solar]

Up your brightness, the walls have weird shapes on them when I build lighting

[olive iris]

What is "that"? I dont know your intended look.

[olive iris]

What wierd shapes?

[split grail]

nah its suposed to be a clean white painting

[orchid solar]

On the wall there are different shades and rectangular shapes. The wall is a solid color with no texture but after lighting it gets weird artifacts

[olive iris]

I see a checker board on your wall

[olive iris]

Increase resolution for baking

[split grail]

ahaha ye

[split grail]

its so weird, if i remove "static" from the wall and let it render lights again it gets good

but as soon as i change anything related to walls it just gets bad again

[olive iris]

There are many things to do, depending on what you already did. And your render pipeline. Probably should increase resolution for lightinf setting a bit first. Etc

Are those boxes imported by you? If so did you make lightmap uv 0 channels? If not, does it have texture channel? If so, did you turn on generate uv map on the meshes?

[split grail]

oh damn thats a lot

ill look into it in a sec

[rocky lily]

Anyone got a clue why lighting bypasses the wall for a bit?

It happens both with point and spot

here's a hard shadow

[olive iris]

My normal reply in here for that is to check the bias settings first

[rocky lily]

zero

[olive iris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plp-LEm_G4A

[olive iris]

Yesh, watch my video first. Try the things out, 0 is not good.

And shadow under 1 is neber good either

After all thay, for testing. Turn indirect to 0. See if if removes it. If so, tell me. If not, rurn on real time, clear baked setting, tell me what it does etc.

Turn on two sided wall on your shadow after all this if it does not work

[rocky lily]

I'm on realtime already

nothing

It's really confusing

I'll look at it when i'm done with class

[olive iris]

Mixed includes baking, you know?

So the settings on lighting tab also matters

[kind light]

I am using URP and basic lighting settings (+ ambient occlusion checked), but it's been 'finalizing bake' of the global illumination for like 10 minutes now. My test scene only has 1 cube sitting on terrain. Why is it not working? Do I have to abort and retry? I'm afraid to lose all that time again

Also with AO disabled, it does work. But as you can see my static objects don't have any shadows

[storm ridge]

anyone have the issue where mixed directional lights are not illuminating anything in builds, but work fine in the editor? Using progressive GPU, shadowmask lighting mode

[olive iris]

Is shadow turned on? For point light. Cube and ground set to static? Light set on baked?

[olive iris]

What else do you know about your light setup?

[kind light]

Yep, yep, yep

[olive iris]

Gonna need more screenshot rather than keep asking questions.

[kind light]

I am working with a basic lighting setting, newly created with no settings changed.

[olive iris]

I need screenshot of your light, lighting tab, inside lighting tab there is lightbake lightmaps, in your scene view you can change to baked view etc

[olive iris]

Your culling is set to mix, set it back to default for now and make sure everything has default layer

[kind light]

already tried, with no success

[olive iris]

I need top also with skybocx

[olive iris]

Turn indirect to o for now at the bottom.

[olive iris]

Does not look right

[kind light]

which one? there's multiples

[olive iris]

Only one at the bottom. Indirect Intensity

Click your ground and show me the settings for it

[kind light]

a little better, but looks terrible

[olive iris]

Are you planning on doing something with terrain?

[kind light]

yes, eventually

[olive iris]

Replace it with a plane for now, for this testing.

[kind light]

that seems to work, but there are a few issues

[olive iris]

Get your terrain back

Click on the wheel on the right

Show me what it says in lighting and lightmapping part of the settings

[olive iris]

What does it say in lightmap parameters?

[kind light]

default very low resolution

[olive iris]

put it to very high and try again

[kind light]

i get exactly the same terrible lighting as before

[olive iris]

Turn scale in lightmap to 1

try again

(going to take longer to bake) We normally do not bake terrains for this reason, hence I wanted to test plane to see if it was the terrain that has low settings

[kind light]

scale to 1 has no effect on bake timing and once again gives me terrible lighting

[kind light]

what do you usually do with terrain?

[olive iris]

Just stick to real time really. Unless its a small terrain but in your case your having issues for unknown reason and going throgh 10000 reasons is going to take ages

Turn back indirect lighting in lighting tab to 1

Show me texture resolution part of the terrain in the same setting rollout

[kind light]

so realtime for outside scenes and baked for inside scenes?

[olive iris]

Depends on many things but generally

[olive iris]

What is your mesh resolution settings for terrain

[kind light]

it's just a default terrain with no changes made to it

[olive iris]

Double those texture resolution and do a bake, see if it does anything.

Double detail resolution also and then do another bake, see if there is any differences

[kind light]

makes absolutely no difference

[olive iris]

I have no idea how most of you manage to break lighting in Unity on this level. 😄

Okay, there is baked view in scene view , can you find and show what you see

Baked Global Illumination
Baked Lightmap or something

[kind light]

where exactly? I am getting a bit lost by all the different lighting setting locations

[olive iris]

Scene view

There is a tab on top left with different debug views to help troubleshoot

It says shaded probably

Next to it you have the light on and off, skybox and all the way to the right you have gizmo button

[kind light]

yes got it

[olive iris]

What are we looking at now in scene view?

[kind light]

there is no global illumination option

[olive iris]

are there checkers on your cube?

[kind light]

yes

[olive iris]

Go to terrain again and increase the scale until it says no space in atlas

(We are experimenting for now, we should not have these settings generally this random and high)

I forgot, what pipeline are you using>

[kind light]

it maxes out at 100k by 100k

URP

[olive iris]

And what did you put in scale in lightmap

[kind light]

default, 0.0256

[olive iris]

Put 10

Do not save anything we are doing, right?

[kind light]

if we screw up i'll just grab a new terrain

now there's no lighting

at this point I might as well just keep outside lighting as realtime. I don't see how this is going to work with baked lighting

[olive iris]

do you need point light though?

[kind light]

is there a better alternative?

[olive iris]

Well it is not you.

Does not work here either, so I must not know something with the current URP 😄

I am going to go do some test here then. Let you know if I figure it out.

Actually, I do not have time

But, know that it is probably something with URP

[kind light]

okay well thanks for helping anyways. At least I now know I have to use realtime lighting for lights on terrain

[olive iris]

Or the terrain itself most likely

[olive iris]

You can use mixed

[kind light]

o yes of course

[olive iris]

You can turn on static for the baking and the real time for others, and place out light probes for anything dynamic inbetween

[kind light]

I haven't gotten that far into lighting yet

[olive iris]

No I was right

All you have to do is increase scale in lightmap for the terrain and maybe increase lightmap size in lighting tab to 2k or 4k.

You did not follow my directions correctly maybe? I confused you with many things.

[kind light]

i set the lightmap size from 500x500 to 1000x1000, not to 2/4k

[olive iris]

Although, I do not recommend baking a terrain.

[kind light]

why not?

[olive iris]

It is very costly in texture maps to get it correctly and high quality, as you would be baking trees, rocks, mountains, sheds, buildings, poles etc.

It is better to use mixed and select key areas into real time and lightprobe workflow

[kind light]

but wouldn't it be more efficient on the hardware of the player?

[olive iris]

Not really, you still need to load it all. And player need space for all the texture map.

For example Ubisoft games need to be very concerned about this because a lot o players download games paying for per mb. So they would be broke and never download a huge game.

[kind light]

o I see

[olive iris]

And this is just flat terrain right now and two cubes.

And you would probably be using directional light and not point light also

[kind light]

why would that make a difference?

[olive iris]

Directional light would cover the whole terrain

So it would catch every object, not just the range of the point light.

[kind light]

yea but I'm using point lights for lanterns

[olive iris]

Right, so you could use other workflow and experiment what is best for you.

You would probably have some directional light for moon light

this setting takes 192mb

[kind light]

wow that's not worth it

[olive iris]

This takes 1mb

[kind light]

how do you manage to get such nice shadows with those settings on terrain?

mixed lighting?

[olive iris]

From what I can tell it is the point light and terrain settings that is the issue of your choices

[kind light]

also why would I be getting this error?

[olive iris]

Point light in URP does not cast shadow

So if you want this to work you use spot light

[kind light]

I am getting this really strange result

and I also have 1 light, but the result shows this

[olive iris]

Yeah, if you setup the whole terrain lighting to it would be

[kind light]

okay so that's because the light is set to mixed. Realtime and baked lights give 1 result and also give correct lighting

[olive iris]

Of course you can lower quality and thus size

[olive iris]

In your case if you want to bake, set things to static and use spot lights

[kind light]

but why does mixed give no/weird shadows?

[olive iris]

Where?

[kind light]

my last screenshot

huh, now it no longer does that

do you know how to fix this AO issue?

[olive iris]

You can pay for my future lighting course. 🙂

I do have to move on with my day. Hopefully you learned a bit.

The AO settings are in lighting settings, just tweak them.

[kind light]

haha sorry I might have asked a little too much

thanks for the help 😉

[olive iris]

Nah, I just happen to do this for a living and also make free tutorials. And sometimes I make courses for extra revenue.

[kind light]

youtube?

[olive iris]

So, these are very specific questions and also high level. I think for now you need to focus on picking the right pipe line for your needs, and understand them and then light it good.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Cyberiusx

[kind light]

I actually got one of your videos recommended to me on youtube the other day. Will check it out very soon ;D

[olive iris]

That is nice. Which one was it?

[kind light]

the 'unity shadows not connecting to objects' one

[olive iris]

Yeah, its a common question. Good to know about it. Need to use it often. In your case its point light not casting real time light in Unity, and terrain settings. And resolution and and and... 😄

[kind light]

yea lots of stuff 😅

[olive iris]

You could be able to meet half way using mixed light and picking the right settings in lighting tab. Mixing between things.

Good luck 😄

[kind light]

thanks! How about a URP tutorial in the future? 🤔 😉

[olive iris]

Right now I take questions like yours that I think is interesting, confusing or could use a more direct alternative solution and turn it into short videos.

It makes the videos short thus easy to view and solves a specific issue. Without becoming too long. And sometimes I might make 45 min to generally addressee differences.

I mostly used In house engine and unreal but with the new work I use Unity a lot, so I am a bit more active in Unity community after being away for 8 years or so.

[kind light]

alright that's cool. I subbed

hoping to see some more URP related video's in the future 🙃

[olive iris]

Thanks, I am not trying to get subs but just share knowledge and help. But I would not mind reaching 1000 one day with the new youtube rules and all. But I am not going to spend day and night doing it.

[olive iris]

I am interested in why you opted to use URP?

[kind light]

overall better performance, which is needed for VR support

I actually started this project in HDRP, but that pipeline had way too many options and I ended up moving to URP because things weren't going smoothly (not talking about fps, but development overall)

had many issues with the HDRP pipeline

[olive iris]

The options are so you can turn them off for VR so its good performance etc.

[olive iris]

LWRP is suppose to be good also for VR, no?

Even built in pipeline?

[kind light]

LWRP is now called URP

[olive iris]

Oh, last year it was the same?

[kind light]

not sure, I tuned in 2 months ago

[olive iris]

I have this quick fun version for "HDRP" but I might do a URP version to show difference in challenges and workflow I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn4Q_WRYxec

[kind light]

cool. I gtg now, unfortunately

[olive iris]

Enjoy

[kind light]

Thx!

[storm ridge]

turned out to be an extremely bizarre issue. I have some invisible shadow casters in my scenes, which were being scaled 100x in builds, as apparently Unity handles static batched meshes differently in the editor versus builds. So the giant casters would cover the entire scene in the build, making it appear as though the directional light was not affecting anything.

ended up disabling static batching on the affected objects, fixed the issue. Crazy odd though

[olive iris]

good to know

[cold rain]

im trying to connect modular level pieces in unity 2019 lts though when baking with progressive theres seams between each prefab. the full prefab is shown at the right, i thought having it in that cube shape would prevent light leakage. does anyone know what i could try to fix this?

[pulsar aspen]

I'm not an expert but have had this issue before at least similar

Cube is a good step I just made the shader double sided

I've been suggested adding thickness so the inside and out of the mesh has some distance

You are working with very light scenes, the way the textures are mostly white do I would definitely try tweak the light parameters themselves maybe the color is bouncing too far or ao needs to be cranked up etc

Assuming this is directional try a baked lighting setup? Anyway just my 2c hope someone can help who knows.

Worst case I would bake the lighting with some thick cubes blocking the light where it needs to be dark, delete for runtime..

[cold rain]

alright when i get a chance ill try the double sided shaders and adding thickness. the textures are black and white, its supposed to look like this :P and yes its using a directional light, everything is baked already

[livid jetty]

Anyone know the cause of those black lines? - On the edge of 'bridge'/big rock thing

[pulsar aspen]

mess with shadow bias / light in general

[pulsar aspen]

ok cool fingers crossed! and yea I did recognize the game so I know that was the intention, but being it's so white you would have to adjust the default lighting parameters I can only assume

[livid jetty]

You know if there's any other way? I can just about get rid of it (the bridge is the one that sticks the worst) but it involves changing the bias so much that it screws up with other shadows.

[cold rain]

i played a bit with settings but couldnt figure out anything that works. the shader and model changes didnt work either. thanks a lot for the help though!

[pulsar aspen]

That and in your quality settings for shadow you'll have to play with it a bit

[pulsar aspen]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/lighting-ambient-light.html

Ah sorry to hear it man did you mess with this as well?

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/173617/unity-baked-lighting-blotchy-shadows-bleeding-and-or-stiching

.

https://polycount.com/discussion/191781/realistic-lighting-cant-avoid-black-edges-at-wall-intersections

[olive iris]

This happens due to bias often when using real time lights, you could just bake it and it would not appear generally.

[olive iris]

Try what David said and also increase lightmap resolution and tweak those settings for the meshes in their models to control things.

[livid jetty]

okay so @olive iris, I turn on direct baking too, so now everything should be using lightmaps or probes but the bridge is extremely dark and I'm not entirely sure why....

[olive iris]

Your lightmap is black...

Check if you turned on auto unwrap UV lightmaps for the model.

Also your settings are a bit off

Reduce this down until the error goes away

Let me know how it goes.

[livid jetty]

is that the Generate UVs tickbox?

[olive iris]

yeah

[livid jetty]

sweet I'll let you know, might be a little while since it won't let me use the progressive GPU anymore

[livid jetty]

okay yeah you nailed it I hate myself thank you

[olive iris]

No problem, I am happy to help. Will keep checking here and help when I can.

[waxen grail]

I'm encountering a strange issue where my dinosaur character model is shining. I'm using HDRP, Unity 2020.3. HDRP/Lit shader. I've tried turning smoothness down to 0 and it still shines, just not as much. I've tried applying a Mask Map and Detail Map and it didn't remove the shine. I've lessened the shine by removing the detail map, setting Metallic Remapping to 1-1, and setting Smoothness Remapping to 0-0. Now the side of my character that sunlight hits looks perfectly fine but the opposite side still looks shiny. Any idea what I could do to remove the shine completely?

Sunlight Side

Shade Side

Something that removed the shine completely was turning the Normal Map strength down to 0, but then...my model doesn't have any normals so I can't do that.

[minor jetty]

Hi, I don't understand why baked lightmaps make my scene very dark, while if I don't bake them the scene is light (that's the result I want). I'm quite new to lights in Unity; could someone help me? The baking parameters are in the picture. Thanks. (Unity 2020.2 URP)

[olive iris]

sounds more of material thing

[olive iris]

you need to share more images of yourlights and other settings

But most likely you did not select them as static on top right per object.

[minor jetty]

Thanks, no, actually they are static; the strange thing is that, for example, the material at the end of the corridor is the same on the walls, but it bakes black

This is the lightmap fo the mesh, completely black:

And these are the lights:

It's a simple scene, with 4 directional lights, so it should be very luminous

[olive iris]

Your meshes are set to static?

[olive iris]

You should increase the intensity a bit more when baking see if that helps.

[oak sierra]

Hi folks! I added a halo component to a point light, but I don't notice a halo in the scene view. Docs say to enable FX button on toolbar but I don't see one for halo, only fog, flare, etc

[verbal wharf]

How do I create completely black lighting? Even with no lights in my scene I can still meshes very clearly. Im using URP lit materials

[olive iris]

Black ambient color in lighting tab and maybe even no skybox or turn it off

[minor jetty]

Yes, they're all set as static.

[minor jetty]

Thanks, which intensisty do you mean? I tried augmenting a lot the intensity of directional lights, but there were no significant improvements.

[olive iris]

Your intensity is almost 0. For the light. Did you increase it to 5 or something?

[minor jetty]

I increased the light only for the "Directional Light (4)", that is my mail light, to 8 or 9 but nothing changed. The other three directional light are there only to have less strong shadows in the sides where the main light doesn't arrive

[frank grove]

why is only the realtime option available ?

[hushed axle]

@frank grove have you disabled light baking in Lighting Settings

[frank grove]

yeap 😛

[verbal wharf]

Thank you!

Can this lighting be achieved in URP or do I need to convert to HDRP?

[olive iris]

Depends how skilled you are.

[olive iris]

delete it and add a new one

[drowsy pelican]

Anybody happen to know how the not-yet-officially-released deferred lighting works under the hood in URP? It works on the URP lit shader, but I have no idea why and can't really find any kind of API for the gbuffer.

[meager juniper]

Hey, is there anyone there?

[timber lichen]

how do i get this shine effect in unity?

both screenshots from karlson btw

i want the walls in my game to have the same effect, i want them to reflect the area around them

[drowsy pelican]

that's called a specular highlight -- look up PBR... there's two models, metallic and specular

[drowsy pelican]

planar reflections are doable but not trivially achievable in URP, because they're not built in... look into boat attack demo

it involves rendering a second camera "under" your scene

[verbal wharf]

thank you, ill check it out

[drowsy pelican]

np -- in my experience, the easiest way to do it is to render your reflection camera to a render texture, then mix it in with shadergraph

the catch is that you'd need to resize the RT if the resolution changes; easiest way I've found is to set up a watchdog for resolution change, then trigger something like:

    cam.targetTexture = null;        
    rTex.Release();
    rTex.width = width;
    rTex.height = height;
    rTex.Create();
    cam.targetTexture = rTex;

[verbal wharf]

two things I'm a complete noob at coding textures and shader graphs, good to know its achievable though

[drowsy pelican]

Here's my window manager watchdog script in case you want to give it a shot. @verbal wharf
https://pastebin.com/1ufyTyXE

[verbal wharf]

awesome ty!

[drowsy pelican]

what that does is fire an event when the resolution changes so that you can resize any render textures or update whatever... it's kind of obscure, because Unity doesn't really have a built-in event

[split furnace]

guys, help a noob out - why is my reflection from a reflection probe moving along with my camera? it looks super weird and I am probably missing something basic

[hallow stag]

Guys, the shadow on my scene looks pixelated, i know about reducing the shadow distance, what I'd like to know is, why when the camera is looking at +z the shadow become pixelated, but when the camera is looking at -z the shadow looks normal ? How to flip it ?

This one is when the camera is looking at +Z

This one -Z

[olive iris]

screenshot and more info always helps

[coral zenith]

on the right is blender, how I'd like it to look

on the left is unity as I import as FBX

guessing the difference is from skybox + lighting not being baked?

i am a noob to this, what do I change, and how do I bake lighting: can or do I bake it in blender first and then import it?

[supple patrol]

Getting the Lighting right is something you have to play around with.
Regarding the Materials: You propably gonna have to redo the Shaders in Unity if you made something more complex in blender

[wanton pivot]

How do I fix the lightmap seams where modular meshes meet?

[olive iris]

Common problem on all game engines. Your lightmap resolution is pretty low for modular, so you can try increasing it between those two surfaces so they match. You can see they do not match in the checker map. Another thing is to avoid many and strong lights near them. Another thing is adding reflection probes. List is long. No simple fixes for anything in game dev. You have to try one thing at a time.

[marsh matrix]

Trying to get into lighting in unity. I simply want the interior that im creating to be dark. I'm using URP, and i set the default light source intensity to 0.01 in the hopes that this would make the scene dark. I also added a point light in the roof. Why is the scene not darker? Why is there a light gradient on all the objects?

Ok, turns out the gradient was caused by "Environment Reflection"

[distant briar]

how can I fix it, so you can see the sky?

[white parrot]

Hey guys! I have AO enabled for baking, but I am not getting any contact shadows, any suggestions on how to debug this?

[olive iris]

Lighting tab - environment lighting - black color (turn off skybox as choice)

[olive iris]

Adjust your AO baking settings?

[olive iris]

Let me know if you do not figure this out. Otherwise Ill make you a video

[olive iris]

If that does not help then let me know, ill make you a video.

[distant briar]

I've been looking for a long time, but haven't found a solution 😐 thx, that you help me

[olive iris]

My pc is broken with Unity in it. And I do not remember 100% from memory right now. But I will come back to you if you still do not figure it out on your own. 🙂

Somtimes its just the scene view and not game view. Do you see the sky in game view?

[distant briar]

No i don't

[olive iris]

Are you use hdrp or urp etc?

[tight slate]

So I am working on a zombie game, would it be better for a light like this (1st pic) or a night setting (2nd pic) for a light?

[tight slate]

or would it be better for both and different maps for night and day

[timber lichen]

Hi When I set my lighting to real-time I am able to see the normals,bumps, reflections in a nice way but when I switch it to baked lighting for better performance I am not able to see them all.Please guide and teach me best way to achieve it thanks in advance

I am using URP fyi

[distant briar]

i use hdrp

[olive iris]

Depends really. For now you could go with dark, dusk and mid day and even winter....should not matter really

[olive iris]

You only see them when using real time light and the correct lighting settings

[timber lichen]

what if I wanna create some semi realistic building with more lights like a showroom I am more concerned about the quality and performance and its for multi platform game

[cobalt dove]

I think I dont understand the relation between the lightmap texture resolution and the texel resolution. I get almost the same quality of bake with 60 texels per unity with 512x512 maps and 40 texels with 4kmaps, But I can bake the 512 maps on the GPU 100 times faster. Can someone explain to me that relation.

[olive iris]

Should not be a problem if you know what you are doing.

[olive iris]

Hard one to explain. A texel is individual pixels in a texture map. It is used to store lighting information at each area the light hits on an object in the lightmap. This stores on a lightmap. As each object is hit they go into the lightmap as a whole object. If it takes up more space than 512x512 it will create a second lightmap at that size. So you end up with 2 x 512 x 512. So a lightmap with 512x512 = 261,144 texel (pixels) for one mesh. Each mesh can take more lightmap resolution space. So when you increase the texel resolution your telling Unity how many texels per unity to use for the lightmap. this increases quality but also bake time. A bigger area or object might need a bigger lightmap size. For example for a terrain. Or a big building that is not modular. Etc.

[cobalt dove]

ok sure I get that. With 60 texels and a 512x512 texture I get like 51 maps for the scene. With 4096x4096 there are about 8. What is the downside of baking more texels into smaller textures ?

[olive iris]

Notice that increasing lightmap does not improve the box at the botom but only the wall

Eventually an object reaches their max texel capability and resolution.

So increasing it would be waste of resources

If I increase texel but reduce lightmap you will see that it also affects the resolution of the objects

In some cases it is similar.

[cobalt dove]

so why for example do I get these artifacts at a 1k or lower res

with 80 texels but not on 4k with 40 texels

the texels seem more than dense enough on that surface

[olive iris]

That my friend goes beyond what I have time to teach you. I do offer 1 on 1 mentorship.

[olive iris]

I can tell you that you have way high resolution. And you also sometimes must adjust padding.

[cobalt dove]

texels or lightmap size ?

[olive iris]

All very interesting question that has many complicated answers to them. You know you can edit each objects lightmap using Scale?

[cobalt dove]

yeah

walls and not well lit things like the ceilings are set to a lower scale. The props and most stuff close to the camera that is a complex surface is set to 1

[olive iris]

Many things matters on what you are doing, how you are doing it and also settings.

[thorny tundra]

Hello, does any of you recognize this behavior?https://gyazo.com/bd46f4064e454bdcf6d3807c7d71bc73

[olive iris]

Why?

[modest pilot]

does anyone know how i can reproduce these reflections?

notice how the "door" is reflected multiple times, both horizontally and vertically

[olive iris]

try increasing env reflection to 3 in lighting tab

[olive iris]

@distant briar For you https://youtu.be/arkS5qKmCVM

[olive iris]

What is your pipelinek, hdrp urp....and unity verison?

[olive iris]

Yes, in case you want to know how to turn everything dark. Especially if you go outside. https://youtu.be/uSmXlEkJDJI

[drowsy pelican]

Anybody got any idea where URP's emission comes from, when using deferred lighting?

I'm looking at the frame debugger and I see:

• _GBuffer0: RGB - Specular, A - ?? (monochrome spec?)
• _GBuffer1: RGB - Albedo, A - empty (flags?)
• _GBuffer2: RGB - Normals, A - roughness/smoothness
• _CameraDepthTexture - (linear?) depth

Somehow, emissive textures get added in, but I have no idea where or how... don't see any texture in the debugger corresponding to it.

As far as I can tell, the Lit shader is packing the gbuffer and stencildeferred is doing the final shading:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/blob/master/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Shaders/Lit.shader

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/blob/master/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/Shaders/Utils/StencilDeferred.shader

[timber lichen]

Im trying to understand why my shadows are noisy in HDRP. I even disabled all the Post effects figuring it was one of them. I even went so far as to make the Max Distance for shadows to 5 Units. (Shadow for directional light is set to 4K).

[olive iris]

I think its still based on unity default shader but in URP it used URP shaders etc. Right now I am just guessing with you.

[olive iris]

It can be raytracing amount.
Indirect amount.
Lack of resolutions.
Probably your Screen Space Global Illumination Settings.
Depends what you are doing?

[drowsy pelican]

@olive iris Thanks, that's more or less what I've gathered. I'm pretty sure everything that's not in the gbuffer gets crammed into _CameraColorTexture, but the way this is done is still a little murky. I'm trying to figure out the best way to take it all to bits and replace it with a render feature with a custom light model.

[olive iris]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/lighting-emissive-materials.html does it say anything?

[drowsy pelican]

It looks like some of the old documentation still applies, at least for stencil-based deferred.

[drowsy pelican]

Not much, unfortunately. The new deferred path is still basically undocumented. You even have to activate the UI with a keyword.

[olive iris]

This https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/StandardShaderMaterialParameterEmission.html anything?

[drowsy pelican]

Just the basics -- nothing specific to how it's handled in forward vs deferred.

[olive iris]

This? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/DynamicGI.SetEmissive.html

[drowsy pelican]

If they're doing it like they did with the built-in pipeline, I think the emissive channel gets shoved in the backbuffer.

But I'm not exactly sure how to check...

I think I just have to kind of disassemble the pipeline bit by bit until something useful falls out.

[olive iris]

You could check Bloom instead and work your way back on how that effect Emissive.

[drowsy pelican]

I don't think bloom cares about where the light is coming from -- pretty sure it's just pure post.

But there's a yarn to pull on in StencilDeferred.shader... it's just kind of confusing.

[olive iris]

What I can tell you the lighting happens in second screen-space buffer in deferred, it used to anyway.

[drowsy pelican]

second screen-space buffer? I'm not sure what that means, sorry.

[olive iris]

Do you know the difference in rendering for forward and deferred?

[drowsy pelican]

like the opaque texture?

yeah

[olive iris]

Have you tried understanding the passes Unity goes through?
https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.2/Documentation/Manual/RenderTech-ForwardRendering.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/Manual/RenderTech-DeferredShading.html

(RT3, ARGB2101010 (non-HDR) or ARGBHalf (HDR) format: Emission + lighting + lightmaps + reflection probes buffer.)

[drowsy pelican]

I can access the gbuffer and play with it in render features, composite it, etc. It's just that there's no obvious accessible emissive channel, either in the gbuffer or in _CameraColorTexture, or _CameraOpaqueTexture by the time the render feature is triggered, no matter where you inject it, if that makes sense? If I pull in _CameraColorTexture, StencilDeferred already put a rendered frame in there.

Yeah, it looks like when the gbuffer is being built RT3 is _CameraColorTexture.

[olive iris]

Lighting is computed in screen space, so the time it takes to process is independent of Scene complexity. Lighting is added to the emission buffer

[drowsy pelican]

So, I think the logical thing to do is to figure out how to bypass/disable StencilDeferred.shader, then basically rebuild it as a render feature. At least I hope that's the ticket.

[olive iris]

he only lighting model available is Standard. If a different model is wanted you can modify the lighting pass shader, by placing the modified version of the Internal-DeferredShading.shader file from the Built-in shaders into a folder named “Resources” in your “Assets” folder. Then open the Graphics settings (menu: Edit > Project Settings, then click the Graphics category). Change the “Deferred” dropdown to “Custom Shader”. Then change the Shader option which appears to the shader you are using.

[drowsy pelican]

Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible with URP anymore.

Appreciate the help, though.

I think the general idea is still the same, I just have to gut the pipeline in a few places.

[olive iris]

I am just throwing stuff at you at this stage to help with your thought process. 😄

[drowsy pelican]

I think it does help, thanks.

Will know when I screw it all up!

[olive iris]

Did you check out something in here https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@11.0/manual/index.html

[drowsy pelican]

"Does URP support a Deferred Renderer?
Not yet. We are working on adding support for a Deferred Renderer."

heh

[olive iris]

I am guessing this comes under vertex lit shader https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@11.0/manual/upgrading-your-shaders.html#built-in-to-urp-shader-mappings actually probably not. That is a different thing I think

[drowsy pelican]

I think I kind of deserve all the trouble for playing with an unreleased feature.

[olive iris]

Why are you trying to figure this out? Or what are you trying to do?

[drowsy pelican]

I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to just do it all from scratch. Seems like packing the textures and sending them to a render feature should be pretty simple. What seems more complicated is the stencil optimizations for rendering additional lights.

Well, I have an 2.5D/isometric project that's using a custom light model and for reasons I won't go into it's really crying out for deferred rendering.

One part of it is that I got volumetric fog/lighting working and it doesn't play nice with additional lights, either performance-wise or... at all. Things bug out, the light count is wrong... lights and shadows will flicker, disappear, not render, etc.

Also, I'm relying heavily on dynamic lighting for day/night cycle and it would be really nice to have an arbitrary number of additional lights to play with, fog or no fog.

This is the sort of thing I'd like to get working more consistently... with more than 1.5 additional lights, depending on unity's disposition at the moment.

There's also weirder, more obscure stuff... like, I'm using basically billboard "sprites" flat on the plane, kind of like pillars of eternity did. There's really basic geometry on top for shadow casting and receiving. The sun is just a direction, so that's no problem. But there's not really a good way to get additional lights to work with that correctly, with forward rendering. Even if I kept it the way it is, I'd have to do a kind of faux deferred pass at the end, because I can't convincingly illuminate a billboard laying on the ground with e.g. a spotlight.

... way more info than you needed, but that's the gist of it.

Basically, if I'm already having to pass the "sprite" normals and specular and stuff to basically invisible meshes, for lighting purposes, might as well get the benefits of deferred instead of just slowing everything down even more.

[drowsy pelican]

@olive iris Thanks for the help, again. I think I have a better idea of where to start.

[distant briar]

thx ❤️ have subscribed

[thorny tundra]

No other color but yellow working. Does it have to do with the skybox?

[olive iris]

no problem

[olive iris]

All I can tell you it is generally set up wrong. First, there is already red going on. Second, you do not need 900 intensity. Third, your source is red. etc

Also, just some theory for you. Lighting works in additive color. That means if you combine certain colors you get another color. This is sometimes called color mixing.

[olive iris]

@thorny tundra This does not solve your issue but it is good to know in your case due to the amount of color you might have in your scene. https://youtu.be/SzncXXaBzys

[thorny tundra]

That is absolutely incredible, I am definitely including this information in my devlog. I faced this issue earlier, but I ended up changing some post processing tints and it worked but I had no idea why, this now explains even the previous issue
Also, the intensity is huge because anything lower doesn't show up x)
https://gyazo.com/167655d547b7449140aa744077199b0b

[stark temple]

kinda looks like too many lights on an object sort of problem, is it a post processing issue?

[thorny tundra]

Seems to act the same even when the volume is off :/

[stark temple]

Then I imagine it's a forward rendering issue where you have too many lights on the same object

(https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/RenderTech-ForwardRendering.html)

[thorny tundra]

Hmm, so directional and environment lights can be too much?

[drowsy pelican]

How many lights, other than the main?

... give or take

[thorny tundra]

I just found this odd behavior of the default skybox in the same scene https://gyazo.com/5b0e66d201d86e160b49d893764493ee

[thorny tundra]

Ow.. uhm well there are quite a bit of point lights scattered around

But that is the case in most of my scenes

[drowsy pelican]

Yeah, you can't do that with forward rendering. I'm guessing URP, since the intensity is so high?

[olive iris]

Did your turn off filtering?

[olive iris]

Like I said, your lighting is not properly done. And there is a limit on pixel lights. And you can only increase it to 8 if I remember correctly. Any more and lights start turning off.

[olive iris]

You should not be having this intensity or range. Your starting base of lighting in general is not going to make things easier for you.

[thorny tundra]

Even in the URP? oh crap..

I thought that's natural behavior of URP

[olive iris]

Even in anything you do in your entire life of lighting regardless of software.

[drowsy pelican]

@thorny tundra You have three options:

• If you're using URP, you can increase per-object lights (a bit) and see if it solves your problem, then strategically limit the range and number of lights per object. Performance will suffer.

• You can mark your scenery static and bake the lighting into your scene.

• You can set the whole thing to deferred rendering and have an arbitrary number of lights, with some trade-offs, by enabling a not-yet-released feature.

[olive iris]

What exactly are you trying to do?

[olive iris]

That happens if you have post process and other things on, which activates exposure and such settings.

[drowsy pelican]

Also, I guess there's option #4, which is "wait for forward+ renderer to be released some time between now and the heat death of the universe"

deferred does work, if you're not looking to do anything crazy....

[thorny tundra]

Okay so this is more serious than I thought, I might need to do some extra reading on some of those as well

[drowsy pelican]

I need a custom light model and other unusual stuff, so it's a bit trickier than flipping a switch for me...

@thorny tundra Look up static vs dynamic lighting and forward vs deferred lighting, if you want the core concepts.

[thorny tundra]

Yeah thanks a lot for summarizing. Can't get such stuff even from my university :^)
Would baking static mean there would be no shadows casted by the character passing through it? Or is that just a misconception

[drowsy pelican]

you can mix and match -- unity documentation describes all the different kinds of mixed lighting you can have

[olive iris]

Character moving is a dynamic object. So baking would not cast a shadow. You would need to use mixed lighting for that. Or you would need to use baked indirect. Etc

[drowsy pelican]

as far as shadows cast ON a character, it's difficult to have "real" shadows with baked lights... light probes will kind of put in the right zip code of how a moving thing should be illuminated, but you won't get proper shadows on the player

like, you'll just sort of transition from "in the light" to "in the shade"

with properly placed light probes

humanoid character, running and jumping around -- probably fine -- but if you have a big, wide model, like a tank or something, it'll never look right, and the only way to deal with that, by clustering light probes together, isn't implemented in URP

so, it just depends on how obsessively perfect you need every shadow to be

[distant briar]

but when I add a directional light and turn it on, the sky becomes dark again

[olive iris]

Yeah, your using HDRP. That is how the light works in HDRP. The sky. The day light. The amount of light. Etc

[distant briar]

how can i have normal ambient lighting and a beautiful sky that is not the standard sky in hdrp?

[olive iris]

You can start by learning the basic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v89oQUYp-jk

[thorny tundra]

So I need to go through each of the light sources and turn each of them off, seeing when there won't be too many of them anymore?

[thorny tundra]

I am a creating a dungeon crawler level

[olive iris]

I mean, you just need to learn more lighting I suppose. And post process. Exposure. And these things. In your case you might want to play around with your exposure level for sky etc

[olive iris]

@wanton pivot I made this video for you in regards to seams. And how you might solve it. And also for you to understand lightmap a bit. I tried covering some basic information for you also @cobalt dove that might help you also. I hope you find it helpful. https://youtu.be/OetZhBc2A98

[cobalt dove]

Thanks I will check it out.

[wanton pivot]

Thanks thats very helpful

[olive iris]

@cobalt dove @wanton pivot You are welcome. Hopefully it helps something.

[turbid cave]

I'm struggling to figure out why I am experiencing such a difference in the resolution between reflections on a cube and a sphere using the same material. Is there some trivial information I am missing here, related to reflection probes?

[olive iris]

baked?

[turbid cave]

Yup

[olive iris]

What is your texture resolution?

And lightmap resolution of those objects using reflection?

[turbid cave]

texture resolution is 256x256, lightmap size is 1024x1024

[olive iris]

And how does it look like in baked view ?

My video above shows how to enter it, if you do not know how.

[olive iris]

You using same reflection probe?

[turbid cave]

No, two seperate probes, and they do not overlap :/

[olive iris]

And the one for the cube is set to be cube and not sphere?

[turbid cave]

Yup

[olive iris]

Resolution for the cube reflection, try higher?

[turbid cave]

How would i go about changing the reflection resolution?

Nvm, found it :)

Weird, keeps the exact same pixelated look, even after changing probe resolution from 256 to 512

I'll try to bake lighting one more time

[olive iris]

Also go to lighting setting and look for environment reflection or something, set it to 3

[turbid cave]

I can't seem to find this entry in the settings, where about is it located? I see in the docs that it is located in the lighting window under environment and environment reflections, however I can't see any settings only a profile entry and the dropdown "static lighting sky"

I'm using HDRP, which may be the reason why I can't see this, but I'm not sure

[olive iris]

Yeah, it would be the reason.

[timber lichen]

hey can anybody help me

[mellow sierra]

@timber lichen Please don't crosspost.

[timber lichen]

ok sorry

[hushed axle]

@turbid cave Reflection of light off the sphere is curved(note the grid lines) and is showing much more of the reflection probe image over a smaller space(higher pixel density).

[odd flax]

has anyone managed to get thick volumetrics without a ton of fog in HDRP?

[mystic dew]

just try to use Volumetric Multiplay on directional light settings

[odd flax]

I tried, it really doesn't help much

[hushed axle]

Working on some improvements for universal render pipelines lighting, how does it look?

[manic barn]

what would be 'thick volumetrics' if not lots of fog or something similar in the air?

[odd flax]

you're right. it would be physically inaccurate, but I just want some thick godrays. I thought about using a volume override, but I think it'd be a bit too extreme

[manic barn]

ah, right, you may want to look into recreating crepuscular post-processing ray effects then

[scenic parrot]

Hello~may I ask a basic question here? I don't know what I've done to my settings.

Why can't I see light reflection in game?

[odd flax]

hmm

I'm going for something like this

[manic barn]

Right, certainly looks like there's a fair bit of fog in there

also a bit of a question of balancing exposure and contrast to make the volumetric effect pop more

most of the screen is pretty dark after all

[hushed axle]

Yea I would say thats more the contrast of having the god rays against a completely black background.

[odd flax]

hm, gotcha, I'll try that out

[olive iris]

What do you mean? You need reflection probes?

[olive iris]

You could try out aura 2 from the store.

[scenic parrot]

Yes, I need reflection probes.
I'm not sure what can make rendering work more like real.
I tried generate lighting early, the game looks better now.
And what can also improve rendering???

Thanks @olive iris .

[upbeat trench]

how do i remove those shawdonws

[olive iris]

Probably a lot. Depends on your project

[olive iris]

What shadows?

[scenic parrot]

If possible~ I want my work could be looks like NEED FOR SPEED CARBON

And this my best so far. 😆

[proper osprey]

I baked the lighting but somehow it looks weird. I generated UVs with a pack margin so theres no overlapping and everything is set to static

does someone know whats going on?

[odd flax]

I love these volumetrics lol

[olive iris]

@proper osprey might be relevant for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OetZhBc2A98

[proper osprey]

Thamk :)

[proper osprey]

right, thank you!

[olive iris]

You need to have the right environment cube map, lighting and all this.

[turbid cave]

Hi, I am finding some undesirable lighting artifacts using SSGI. This most likely has an easy fix, I just can't figure out exactly why this is happening. As i get closer to shadows they disappear. The first image is with SSGI, 2nd is without

[scenic parrot]

Thank you for helping. It's really helps a lot.

[turbid cave]

Turns out these lighting artifacts are occuring due to msaa

[split grail]

should i go with CPU lightmapper or GPU ? cpu just takes so long

[olive iris]

GPU is quicker

[split grail]

yes but is it better?

[odd flax]

it should work just like the CPU one, so choose GPU if you can

[split grail]

okey nice 😄

i also notice some strange glitches on the walls and objects after render sometimes

but i didnt notice it on the cpu one

[odd flax]

how would I go about adding volumetrics to my lights?

[olive iris]

It is just how you render and what you have access to if you use it. It might have some issues but just re render

[split grail]

does anyone know what is this light changer when i move my camera like up and down? the floor gets brighter, its like focus or smt

using unity HDRP

[olive iris]

Reflection?

[split grail]

hmm idk

[olive iris]

Did you add reflection probes though?

[split grail]

if i look down the ground gets darker and everything else gets brigher, if i look like normal front everything is "darkish" and the ground is bright

like focus smt

yes i did

[olive iris]

exposure on?

[split grail]

hmm may have yes

how do i check? just started using HDRP first time, was going to watch the tutorial from unity itself, the 1h one 😄

[split grail]

found it

kind of took it off and now everything is super white and bright

[split grail]

@olive iris do you know by any change how do I "activate" the override filter for the default settings? in the video the man says "just make sure you activate the override checkbox" but there's none :/

its currently like this i cant touch anything

ik i can create a new volume but the man could actually change these

[tame cave]

So im working on a map right now, and even with no lighting source, the top of my map is pure white (yes there are materials on everything). How do i fix this

[olive iris]

Try this. See if it helps teaching you the basics. https://youtu.be/Pn4Q_WRYxec

[olive iris]

Screenshot?

[tame cave]

I figured it out, i had misclicked a while ago qnd accidentally thrown the light wayyyyy away

[olive iris]

Try this https://youtu.be/uSmXlEkJDJI

[olive iris]

Ok. Good

[timber lichen]

I have a minor problem with this, I don't even know how to describe it, when I turn on the light it turns green on the trees when it turns off the green color disappears. The trees should be as white as when the light is off. I work in HDRP.

[mystic dew]

seems like you forgot to assign a Foliage SubSurface Preset to shader