archived-lighting

[wary viper]

https://gyazo.com/d733bddb5101c84f2975bcdc972adda0

Anyone know why its giving me the error at the bottom

cant seem to figure out how to fix it

[modest flower]

well according to the error you need a mesh renderer component on the gameobject it seems

i don't use bakery however, so i can't say with certainty, should probably look at the bakery docs

[primal cypress]

is there any way to force lights to bake on a separate atlas?

• i have 6 shadowmask directional lights
• each of them lights only on a specific layer, meaning that none of them lights the same object
• nevertheless, they still end up counted as overlapping resulting in the last 2 not counting for the shadowmask

[stuck atlas]

Help, when I set my lights to baked and generate lightmaps ,evrything goes 🍌 🍌 !

[dapper stump]

Hello, Im trying to use a shadow caster 2d in my game, and trying to change the shape since the default is just a box. Problem is that everytime I try clicking on a point to move it or add another point, it deletes the point or line instead of moving / creating one. I have tried deleting some assets ive downloaded, restarted unity and my pc multiple times and its been like this since yesterday. anyone able to help? https://i.gyazo.com/0779514cdf190d8907eb6bb825b14c87.gif

[final needle]

hey guys, I was told to ask here. My Unity terrain is baking lightmaps that I do not want to use in my game at all. How do i stop my terrain from using a baked lightmap?

[glass sinew]

this question is probably more related to #archived-shaders and you'll get a bit more traction there. The gist is you'll need to use a custom lighting model (see eg the repo by cyan, https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_ShaderGraphCustomLighting ), and then step the lighting values. (I'm assuming the above sprite is lit - if its not lit you just want to use a LUT to reduce the colors available)

[daring dawn]

I posted there first, but very few responses. Thanks for the suggestion, i'll check it out!

[main wolf]

Yes it should be possible, here's my quick try based on the built in sprite shader

the shader is too long to be pasted here

Here's the shader

[daring dawn]

Seems really promising, thanks!

[hazy nebula]

For some reason my shadow caster 2d starts off behind my sprite, but ends up in front whenever I set the gameobject to not active. After that point I have no clue how to get the shadow caster 2d back behind the sprite. This also happens whenever I disable then enable the shadow caster

does anyone know how to fix this?

[daring dawn]

@main wolf any idea why it might be doing this?

[main wolf]

seems like shader compile error, try highlighting the shader and see if there's any error in the inspector

[daring dawn]

looks like there's one thing:

actually something else appeared but it doesn't seem like it should break it?

Shader warning in 'Custom/Sprite Normals': Use of UNITY_MATRIX_MV is detected. To transform a vertex into view space, consider using UnityObjectToViewPos for better performance.

[main wolf]

No, I dont think it should.
Are you using built in render pipeline?

[daring dawn]

Oh duh, I'm using urp

I wanted to experiment with the relatively new urp pixel stuff

[main wolf]

Ic... unfortunately, the shader is not urp compatible...
in fact it was made using unity 5 😅

but I just test it on unity 2019 and it works just fine

[daring dawn]

ah well, I do appreciate the help

maybe I'll try and fiddle with it to see if I can get it working with urp

I have it working mostly how i like in godot, but it's tedious, so i was hoping i could do it more easily in unity and get a few extra features with the shiny new urp pixel stuff

[main wolf]

the idea should be the same, you need to 'step' the lighting, like if the lighting value is below 0.5, set it to dark(I use 0.25), else set it to light(1)

[daring dawn]

yeah, I've done a shader like this a couple times so i get the overall logic, it's just a matter of figuring it out for unity. I was trying to use the shader graph editor for instance but it seems it's literally not possible to get light directions

least not in 2d urp shader graphs

so I gotta use an actual programmed shader is what I figure, but that'll require some time to learn

[dusk stag]

point light doesnt prioritize terrain in certain angles, anyone know why? i've set the light render to important

using URP, unity 2020.1.14

in render pipeline ive also set POL to 8, which seems to help, but not enough

[dusk stag]

made a plane using probuilder, seems to have fixed it
might be something up with terrain itself, cus the light doesnt turn off on custom geometry

[limber delta]

Hello!
I was wondering if there is any way to make area lights produce a softer falloff in the URP? And why do rectangle-shaped area lights behave like spotlights? This is from the Unity Manual: "Light is emitted across the surface of an Area Light producing a diffuse light with soft shadowing." I don't see that happening though.

Looks like this

(three area lights in the scene)

[deft fiber]

Too many pixel lights per object
Decrease light ranges, split objects into smaller parts, use baked lighting for terrain or switch to deferred rendering if available

[marble coral]

how to solve this?

[cold shell]

not sure whether unity is just bad at this or im doing something catastrpohically wrong but having more than 50 lights in a 2d scene screws up my framerates so bad

[main wolf]

unless you are using deferred renderer, then yes, adding more than 50 lights to the scene is something catastrophically wrong...

[silk kindle]

how do i make it so a certain object isn't effected by 2d light sources

[timber lichen]

Idk where to ask so I am trying it here. I am currently making something in blender. I had to reimport one part of the gun again and now it looks all messed up like this

Can someone help me?

[timber lichen]

i've got a problem, does someone knows how to fix this light leak??(found a fix)

[grand berry]

I need help with day and night cycle I did a directional light but my sky is grey and there is no sun moon and clouds how do i add this (still new to unity)

[frigid zodiac]

You can add a mesh in the other side with only shadow mode. Or if lights are baked, you'll need to fix the light map settings. Start with texel spacing

[minor gyro]

hello, does anybody know why unity renders only 4 spotlights at once ?

i need multiple spot lights for my project and 4 is not nearly enough that is why

[deft fiber]

This is more of an #🔀┃art-asset-workflow question than anything related to unity's lighting
I can see a mess of problems there, looks like overlapping geometry and improper normals at very least

[minor gyro]

idk what this is

but it looks like it is textured from the inside

idk

[main wolf]

You can increase pixel light count in quality setting, or change to deferred rendering if you need so many lights

[minor gyro]

thanks, but how do i do that xD first time making something in 3d and lightning is a real pain in the a

[main wolf]

btw, are those lights need to move or are they static? if they are not moving(static) you can just bake the lightings

[minor gyro]

static

thanks

you a real G

[minor gyro]

yeaaaaah

i still don't get it

i thought about making an Emissive material

that would work too

but sadly i use URP

and i can't really find any tutorial that helps

[minor gyro]

i am gonna try to ask the same thing on URP because i don't know if it should be put here or there

okay i found a great Tutorial, but i just need to do one more thing

how the heck do i open the Lighting tab besides the inspector?

nvm remembered it again

[scenic summit]

Is emit really cheap? I had 8 real time emit sources, lit the whole scene. Real time. On the quest 2, and I had no need to use any "real" lights.

Am I missing something?

[unique mango]

yo can anyone help me fix those weird shadows?

those are light settings

What's wrong?

[unkempt spoke]

dayum, you captured that from 4 inch screen!? too small, my guy

[unique mango]

what is too small

[unique mango]

better?

Im not sure

[winged cedar]

Hi im using hdrp and struggling to understand how indoor lighting works for dark rooms

I have a roof however it doesnt make the room any darker i assume because the hdri is projecting through it

[lime lagoon]

Hey people, so I've got a camera, and when I get close to stuff, it can see the shadows, but the shadows disappear when they are far away. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

See how it's disappearing here?

[unique mango]

I'll be really glad if someone will help me seriously. It's very important

[main wolf]

increase shadow distance or bake the shadow

[main wolf]

do you mean the corners are not sharp? check the model importer, see if the smoothing angle is set to above 90

[unique mango]

Noooo are you blind. This shadow is not snappping into object sending it

like near plane but problem is that near plane is set to minumum

[main wolf]

That's not a good way to ask for help
The image is so dark, and small

[unique mango]

sory

better?

I don't know what's wrong with the image. It can't be better

[primal cypress]

anyone knows of a way to get LineRenderer work with reflection probes in URP?

the option is greyed out in the inspector :/

[crude lintel]

Shadow settings on the light source control that. Try tweaking them. Although that might cause other artefacts to appear.

[modest flower]

I think I already know the answer, but these blotchy artifacts are texel validity related most likely right? I had used mixed lights previously, and only noticed these after i turned them into baked only

[modest flower]

this might be fixable by editing your scriptable render quality settings (If youre using URP or HDRP(?), theyre in the Settings folder)

[modest flower]

these settings in the high quality scriptable object specifically

[deft fiber]

Blotches look like texel validity issue, the bright seam is probably UV overlap

I guess it could be light leak from outside if the vertices aren't welded, but that's much less common with baked light

[modest flower]

these are disparate modular pieces(sheets really) made in probuilder for prototyping, so youre not wrong about it not being welded...

should i have solid pieces instead of one sided?

[deft fiber]

That does usually improve shadow accuracy a lot, yes

Especially with realtime shadows

I'd first check those regions for lightmap UV overlap though

[modest flower]

iirc, no overlap errors, but a bunch of texel validity issues

it got a bit better after making the textures double sided, but that last pic was double sided already

[deft fiber]

Giving them thickness would work even better as it covers up the seam

[modest flower]

good thing its (mostly) prefabs

[sullen niche]

guys in my project when i go far shadows dissapears how can i fix this bug

[modest flower]

can do that and have it all be reflected in a jiffy

[modest flower]

if youre using URP, i actually suggested something that might help a few hours ago

i don't know if it will for sure solve it though

[sullen niche]

yes im using urp

[modest flower]

this msg

[sullen niche]

thanks

[sullen niche]

i looked at this settings but my in my urp i have less options

[modest flower]

im using 2021, but the shadow settings SHOULD still be there

mind tossing a screenshot of the settings?

[sullen niche]

i read something but he is changing shadow distance in quality setting but i dont have a option like that

[modest flower]

what version are you on? the distance is at least still accessible

[sullen niche]

wait let me check

2019.4.1f1

[modest flower]

distance is there, enable cascades and you'll have the slider thingamajig

though how to USE the cascade is beyond me at the moment 😅

[sullen niche]

i changed the distance but same problem

[modest flower]

my rudimentary understanding is that it modulates shadow quality within the distance declared

[sullen niche]

but i dont have the metric option in the cascades

[modest flower]

hmm, you'll have to play around with the cascades..or is it maybe something to do with the camera? i don't know what else could be suggested

[sullen niche]

ok thanks for the help

🙂

[modest flower]

what does it look like though?

[sullen niche]

wait

[modest flower]

no worries, im sure youre close

[modest flower]

oh

[sullen niche]

only 3 option

[modest flower]

you have to select 2 or 4 first

my screenshot as 2 for cascade count

this might be a version difference

[sullen niche]

yes

what version are you using

[modest flower]

2021.2.0f1

mind you, i havent noticed anything weird with the shadows as i havent actually flown around in a birds eye view in any of my scenes, so i may be having the same issues you do but did not notice

[sullen niche]

ohh

but in game this shadow problem very obivious when i move 2-1 meter far all the trees and cliffs shadows dissapear

[modest flower]

well thats weird

i do notice that you have 2 directional lights however

try disabling one?

assuming both are directional instead of an artifact of duplicating

[sullen niche]

same 😦

if you want i can record a video

[modest flower]

unfortunately, im stumped

yeah sure, it might also help any passers-by with better experience to diagnose the issue

[sullen niche]

ok thanks for helping 🙂

[modest flower]

i saw the vid, it seems the distance was still set at 50

you DID try to push it higher right?

like say 100

if you already have then yeah thats a headscratch from me :S

[sullen niche]

i made 100 too

but same problme

[modest flower]

ah, sorry :S by all accounts changing that distance should have done something

[sullen niche]

ahhhhh i made it

yes its about distance

i accidently made a 2 pipre renderer thats why

[modest flower]

oh 😅 good to hear its working now!

don't have to wonder about it all night anymore lol

[sullen niche]

thanks for your helps m8 you are the best

[sullen niche]

yess 😆

[craggy plover]

Does this sounds reasonable?

Is this withing acceptable ranges?

[unique terrace]

I am using Bakery for Unity, and I cannot get spotlights to bake to save my life. Everything I've tried, they just don't do anything. Point lights are working great. Can anyone tell me if this is a common issue and if there is a known solution? I'm starting to really lose my mind here.

[blissful salmon]

Has anyone had/solved this issue with realtime lights?
I upgraded my project to 2021.2 using URP and I am building to android. Idk if this is a bug with the editor or some new setting that causes this but I didn't have this issue in all the previous versions of Unity.

[tranquil basin]

hey fellas, is there a better way to find which objects are shadow casters without having to go through every object in the scene, i disabled shadows on everything but stats says there are still like 80 shadow casters

ps: found them, but still would like to know for future cases

[blissful cobalt]

Have you tried the important rendering setting on your light?

[severe yarrow]

hey everyone. a question:
Is there someway to blend two spotlights colors together?
It looks like this now(im using HDRP):

[blissful salmon]

Yeah i tried that but it still didn’t work

[blissful cobalt]

Hmmm I would watch when I get home from work, it's pretty strange

[alpine briar]

Could anyone link me to a good URP lighting video/Playlist?

i cant find any Beginner full explanation kind of Lighting tutorial

im desperately trying to learn lighting as the Default Lighting is very VERY awful

[dense wing]

instead of blending why dont try to use the spotlight with that color only

[kindred igloo]

Hey everyone! I'm trying to add a black rectangle that interacts with the lighting in my level, but it doesn't seem to be. The difference is very slight but i need to get rid of it. I;d appreciate any help on how to fix this thanks!

[prime lotus]

what lighting are you using?

2d light in urp?

[kindred igloo]

Urp

Spotlight

I tried point light

[prime lotus]

does the rectangle have a lit material

[kindred igloo]

But it didn't work

Yes it does

[prime lotus]

is your rectangle on a layer that the lights affect

[kindred igloo]

Yes

It's on the default layer

Just like everything else in the scene for now

[prime lotus]

can you show the inspector of the rectangle and one of the lights

[kindred igloo]

Ngl Im in bed rn :/

Sort out tmrw?

Sorry

However

Upon closer inspection of the image

It looks to me

Like It's being a tiny bit effected by the light

[prime lotus]

maybe

what are you trying to do?

[kindred igloo]

The back box it covering another room

[prime lotus]

ah ok

[kindred igloo]

When the door is opened...

You can guess the rest

[prime lotus]

if you want that box to be invisible then you can use a sprite mask to hide the room

then when the door is open you can expand or remove the mask

[kindred igloo]

I have no idea what masks are

But I'll look into it!

Thanks!

[deft fiber]

No matter how much light you point towards a black material it's still going to be black

[hidden night]

Is there a way I can 2D get lighting like in this scene using the default render pipeline?

The reason I don't want to switch to URP is that I've already written a shader for my sprites that does palette swapping, and last time I tried that all my shaders became incompatible

The kind of lighting I want is super simple. It doesn't need to have any cast shadows, just glowing areas in a scene.

Bonus if I can define the glowing areas using custom shapes or sprite masks, but just spheres is ok

Sorry if this is a lot to ask, even pointing to some article or tutorial that could explain this would help a lot

[tame garnet]

Hey guys!
do you know any cool and simple solution for this kind of a problem? I'm using an HDRP-Setup. There is a "LED-Strip" as emission material combined with six area light rectangle sources. It works, but only in a linear way for each of them and not on the round corners. I actually have no idea how to solve this. If I add these light sources on the edges, the result gets very ugly..
My hope was that the emission should be more as enough. But you see the emission glow only if you are looking directly on it, not if the material is hidden.

A new feature idea for Unity-Team: "Custom-Spline Shapes" for light sources! : )

[kindred igloo]

Hey everyone! I'm trying to create a black box to cover the next room in a dungeon crawler I'm creating. However, I'm getting some sort of weird bug where a spotlight (for the fire) doesn't spill over the black cover as it does with the tilemap. I'd appreciate any help on how to fix this thanks! (I increased the intensity of the fire spotlight on the left so you can see the issue) I'm using a sprite-lit materail for the cover. Please @ me when you respond. Thanks!

[deft fiber]

You can get light from emissive textures with baked lighting and light probes, provided your object can be static

[violet hawk]

I can have per-camera skyboxes with the Skybox component, but if I do that it will still read the intensity etc. from the main lighting skybox.

Is there a way to have per camera environment light settings?

[tame garnet]

Thx mate, I will try it out once again.

[strange vortex]

Hello, this is my first time doing something that isn't coding on Unity, I was trying to make a modular kit for my levels but baking light doesn't seem to produce accurate results (URP). The pieces are on a grid and there shouldn't be holes between them but light still produces weird artefacts, can someone help me please?

Here's another picture, im baking with shadowmask

But I tried different methods and the results are similar

[kind thistle]

I keep getting these errors in Unity 2018.4.10f, any clue how to fix them?

[fervent dock]

how can i make both planets light up more equally and make them cast shadows? im using urp

[white gate]

Hello im having some trouble with my directional lighting for some reason it does not work anny more

if i change rotation or other values nothing happends

[shy locust]

Hi, I'm having trouble with Spotlight or Point Light, When I added a spotlight into my scene, the directional lights looks like have been disabled at some point, this happens after migrating to URP and whenever my camera look at the spotlight. How to fix this?

Nevermind, just added the Limit light in the Pipeline Render Asset and fixed

[graceful oxide]

Hi! Still looking for help with this issue (from September). Any help will be greatly appreciated! https://answers.unity.com/questions/1862474/multiple-spotlights-causing-light-flares.html

[main wolf]

try baking the shadow/light

[deft fiber]

Your walls seem to be have entirely smooth normals
Try with default cubes instead to confirm it's a mesh issue and not a lighting issue

[strange vortex]

I ended up remaking the meshes and it worked, thanks tho

[tropic tartan]

is there a way to tell Unity to use a specific UV set if I need a lightmap for a model with say 2 or more UV sets

[deft fiber]

I believe lightmapper uses UVs at index 1, or the second slot in other words
Not sure how to manually override it, or if it is necessary

[scenic summit]

cant get rid of these "blocks" to save my live

[dense acorn]

Is there a way to add a floor to light level in a scene on unity? So like, regardless if an area has light on it, if the player looks at it, it won't appear pitch black? For example, if you're in a cave in minecraft with no light, you can still see. Can this be replicated?

[languid wing]

Ambient lighting

how to find it exactly depends on which render pipeline you're using

[tropic tartan]

Any good sources for free cc0 light cookies?

[void tusk]

Could anyone take a look at these settings and tell my why my rtx 3080 Ti takes half an hour to bake light for a small scene with almost no objects?

https://gyazo.com/11fd648bc54ef717f13901696ed9133f

Scratch that, 1 1/2 hour lol

[timber lichen]

hey i'm kinda new to unity, i followed a few tutorials, but found this

the background turns gray

does anyone know what i have to change?

nvm it's the fog

[quasi ore]

The last 3 times i baked my light map Unity has crashed... Always at the end when everything is complete it finnishes with a crash. What could possibly be the issue?

my settings

[stark star]

Any idea why the light leaks outside?

[robust pollen]

Anyone know why the lighting would look so washed out with HDRP lighting?
https://i.imgur.com/bE8Hrn5.jpeg

[stark star]

Bake reflection probes

Disable enviro reflections

[robust pollen]

Cheers but now its being really weird lol
https://i.imgur.com/uefIAWf.jpeg

[stark star]

because building light in unity isnt something easy
try a tutorial for begginers and follow it

[robust pollen]

Nah, its something to do with overlapping lightmaps

Seems like its only this model

[near bison]

Is there a format other than RGB HDR BC6H which I can use for my lightmaps which would be smaller but still look good? My 4096x4096 .hdr maps are 16MB apiece and I'd like to reduce that by at least 4x if I can. I'm aware I could drop the res to 2048x2048 but the shadows are already pretty blurry, and I'd prefer to avoid making that problem even worse.

[graceful oxide]

@main wolf Thanks for the suggestion! I already tried that. Do you have any other suggestions? I can provide more information if that could give some context.

[near bison]

Why can't I select the light probe mode in the second screenshot? The option is grayed out, but these two objects appear identical:

It's also weird that when I select these two objects, and try to compare the static settings, none of them show up, like when they are different, yet you can see they are clearly the same in the shots above:

Apparently clearing baked data allows me to access those options again.

[hidden harbor]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/497874004401586176/910990028635787334/unknown.png
any idea how to fix this black spot issue?

[hidden harbor]

fixed

for anyone with the same problem, the problem happened after the new unity update. fixed by copying and pasting assets

[cerulean bough]

Hi guys I need help in lightning baking
My unity is crashing
on bake

Sometimes it stucks and never complete the baking

anybody?

[cerulean bough]

help me please

[summer aspen]

Error logs locations are pinned in #💻┃unity-talk . Research your errors.

[plush mortar]

Hi guys, why my dynamic object has this lighting when the lightprobes are like that and is placed in the shade?

[plush mortar]

I fixed it, the shadowcaster was set to contribute to GI

[robust pollen]

It was an issue with the directional light, replaced it and it fixed that weird shadowing.
Surprised I couldn't find anyone else posting about it because it seems like a common issue

[stark star]

well i dont think its common

[dawn temple]

I have been tearing my hair out, and I think it's possible but can't find a direct answer. I have an object that has emissions and when things are static, it lights how I want it to, whihc i expect, but I also want it to be dynamic and move around. And I have had 0 luck finding a solid answer

I have found a lot of info on using light probes to cast light on moving objects dynamically, but I can't get an object to be the thing casting the light

[plush mortar]

@dawn temple You can´t have an emissive mesh to cast light on to other geo in realtime, if you bake the lighting it can work for GI static objects, but if you want it to light dynamc objects you will have to fake it with a point light an area light etc depending on the shape and desired performance

[sterile horizon]

Why my gun get a light hit through the wall? (Sorry for bad english)

[stark star]

becase it has no shadow mask

[leaden finch]

I am working on a solar system, and am running into some strange lighting problems. All of my planets seem to have shadows with only a small ring of light

The sun has no shadows, and each planet contains a smaller version, however getting rid of it has not solved this problem

It is also only seen on the more distant planets

Each planet has a specialized point light that only accepts shadows from each planet's smaller copy, and only illuminated the specific planet it is meant for

Here is another example of the problem

[heady seal]

Anyone know a reason why lighting would be different in Game View and the actual Build. As it stands right now, I have all shadows working in game view, but when I build they all just disappear. I cannot even create two basic cube objects with a light shining on them and have them cast a shadow.

[heady seal]

Looks like Unity would default the "quality settings" to it's lowest one, so deleting everything besides "ultra" made it work!

[autumn galleon]

I'm having trouble lightmapping an object I've merged with Mesh.CombineMeshes().
The lighmap UV:s looks like this for the combined mesh, totally overlapping eachother. Anyone have some suggestions to get it working?

PS, setting hasLightmapData=true, does nothing except add a third UV channel. Still looks the same.

[golden mantle]

Trying to render those chairs, but always get messed up seams no matter what I try doing. Unity 2019. Using bakery. Anyone know what to do? I'm using Generate Lightmaps on the object.

[orchid pawn]

someone help. p l e a s e
I’m fairly new to unity and I am very confused with it’s lighting, and i got to this image right here.

but that was only after a while of messing around

Otherwise, it would have been an ugly, yellow-ish looking shade.

Yet i’ve seen many devloggers and tutorial youtubers load a project and have perfect lighting.

[unkempt spoke]

Perhaps make a prototype of your game 1st... hard to answer when it's just a single cube 😃

[summer aspen]

@long gale Don't cross-post. Pick one channel.

[long gale]

mb

[strange vortex]

Would anyone be willing to help me understand why my light probe groups aren't behaving as I would expect?

The base of this lamp is made of metal and has a point light above it, due to it's size its set to using light groups for GI, but it's extremely dark compared to other objects nearby, I even tried placing a light probe right on top of it and it's still not lighting up correctly

Using URP btw

[cerulean bough]

in hdrp or urp?

i got an issue like this in hdrp and fixed it by adding base texture in emission and use it for brightening the texture according to the scene

[strange vortex]

urp

[strange vortex]

i guess that fix works for now, thanks, im still hoping for something that seems less than a hack 😟

[covert stirrup]

Metallic objects are coloured by reflection captures, you can see if it changes by adding a probe above it with a minimal size and see if it looks better

[royal blaze]

Is there a simple way using URP to add a shadow to a 2D Sprite ? Can't find anything...

[timber lichen]

In a 3d world?

[royal blaze]

yeah 🙂

[strange vortex]

This worked, even for metallic materials with no metallic spots, but it does seem a bit of a bad practice? I gotta add a lot more reflection probes if i want accurate results, god I miss call of duty's baked lights, they've got a really nice voxel system that is a lot faster than lightmaps and works for dynamic objects too 😭

This is the result with a closer probe

[covert stirrup]

Bakery has a volumetric lightmap option actually

But yes you’re right it would be bad practice. If you have dramatic changes in lighting in your scene you have to work around it one way or another

[strange vortex]

I swear to god, as soon as I get my degree at the end of next year im probably going to spend so much money on cool shit like bakery

[brittle willow]

hello guys

i have never used 2 lighting before and i have some total nub questions . i installed urp and the scene should all go pitch dark(but it doesnt)
If i add the same background sprites in the scene they are black but the ones that were in the scene already are lit without light

[brittle willow]

please ?

[strange vortex]

Sorry for the ping but it seems like i was able to fix the issue without adding extra probes, i had a probe at the center of the room and apparently ticking "box projection" is enough to get accurate light?

Same picture as before without extra nearby probe

Woods is not pitch black like before

[covert stirrup]

Nice so box projections are more expensive but it's not a big issue usually

[compact rock]

Anyone know the cause of these?

[cloud nexus]

did you check "generate Lightmap UVs"?

[plush mortar]

I also get those artifacts but I haven't figured out a fix

[compact rock]

Yes I have checked it

[earnest mica]

Anyone know why the GPU lightmapper is producing results light this? Using the CPU Lightmapper with exactly the same settings bakes fine. I've tried baking with both Game and Studio graphics drivers, with the same results

[shrewd hawk]

Clear bake, cache, reboot and rebake

[dusk stag]

hey,
is there a way to turn per object limit up? on the ground mesh, several lights are hitting it, which results in lights turning itself off sometimes based on view angle

left got light on ground, right got no light on ground

i guess a workaround could be to split the ground mesh in multiple pieces, but would be nice to keep it to one for convinience

[keen rain]

Hi i have a weird Problem when I build my game on android it looks like the lights dont bake or something

heres how it looks on android

heres how it suppose to look

[still gust]

Hey guys, how can I achieve to have two light sets on one scene. I.e. I have two scene at this moment, one for day and one for night and I would like to have one scene where I can choose what light "preset" to choose on scene load. Unity 2019.3

[near plaza]

Anyone know why when I rebake my reflection probe, the text above doors is not reflected?

[broken rover]

Hi guys, I am having 2 wierd problems using my spotlight in my scene.
the first one is this difference of lighting between chairs, i suspect the light baking to be the cause? cause chairs are dynamic and people can use them randomly so i certainly should not bake them at all.

and the second one is on the characters this time, who are not lighted correclty, because the head is using a blendshape so is separated from body.

so it's cliping between lighting and culling, so we can sometimes see inside the head, because it has been culled off...

[autumn galleon]

Curious. Why do you recommend reboot?

[broken rover]

@broken rover like i suspected, for the chairs, the baking was the main problem, but for characters, i noticed that i can have, for the same character, 2 kind of lightings results and it seems not to be relative to the blendshapes, See the character behind is pointed by the light and is correctly lighted, but the character in front is fully lighted on body and is not correct. This character should not be lighted like that. What can cause this problem ?

Note: the same problem may occur on the chair

Ok i Fund !
@broken rover
If this problem happens to you, you must set the ligth as important Render Mode . As simple as that...

[bitter tangle]

I thought that when using a Forward Renderer, the number of triangles needed to be drawn for each object affected by a light would double for each light. Is this only for shadows? Here I have the light off and it is 12 triangles drawn for the cube

Here i turn it on and it is the same amount.

Then enabling shadows doubles triangles drawn. How does this really work?

[deft fiber]

Probably a texel validity issue

[deft fiber]

Splitting meshes is a perfectly valid workaround
Having a huge singular mesh covering a lot of the level also causes issues for frustum culling and occlusion culling
If you want to get rid of light limits regardless, switch to deferred rendering

[misty abyss]

why does my white look beige? i have searched about it but i have not found any solutions but what i did find out was that its because of the lighting?

[deft fiber]

There could be many reasons for that
The most likely one is that you're using the default sun which is yellow tinted

[misty abyss]

ah ok thanks

its white now thanks!

[bitter tangle]

I don't understand your question.

Try rephrasing

[raw flare]

having a really weird issue with lighting in my build, im using a directional light, it works fine in editor, but not in build, first pic is build, second is editor

[deft fiber]

This kind of thing usually happens if your scene's light is set to baked only, but you haven't baked it
In that case the editor treats it as dynamic so you can preview it, but it doesn't actually exist in the lighting data that the scene attempts to use at runtime

[raw flare]

im completely new to lighting stuff, how do i bake it in that case?

[deft fiber]

And when you do bake it, the lighting type needs to be mixed to have any effect on non-static objects

There are many guides for baking out there

Pinned messages can surely get you started

Or just make the light dynamic if you don't need to bake it

[jaunty verge]

ive implemented lighting in the project but for some reason this prefab will not light up properly, the grey background which isnt a prefab works and has the same material as the prefab. does anyone know why?

[brisk nexus]

uh idk if this has t do with lighting but i have a question. How do i made a non forwarded pipeline asset

[bitter tangle]

Try not to use a negative scale. https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/normal-map-of-prefab-with-negative-scale-is-inverted-when-rendered-in-the-game-view

[frigid zodiac]

pick screen color (x, y) - this has color variations due to GI/shadows etc
do a raycast and get the mesh renderer, then material, then it's color in 3d space before light.

You have two colors now. You can use that then

[mystic dew]

Oh, just saw your scene in vermillion, you create that scene?

[humble heron]

Yeah in like 2 hours, as a placeholder... Became kind of a permanent placeholder

[flat glacier]

Hi, does anyone know if it's possible to only bake AO in the scene using the lightmapper?

[last canyon]

hi everyone. im working on a mobile game and realised too late that using PP ambient oclusion is killing the perfs. I see i can bake AO in the lightning but when i enable it, i simply dont see anything. i tried with default values, higher values, lower values, its like AO is not enabled. is there something special that i should do to be able to bake AO? is there a tutorial/guide maybe i could follow?

[mellow sierra]

@winged cedar No crossposting. #archived-hdrp

[wise hawk]

Hi!

Is it possible to get some control over the intensity of emissive materials without HDR?

I have this problem where, in order for a material to significantly contribute to the lightmap, I have to make the emissive value so high that it's completely overexposed, just looks like a white square

Otherwise the lightmap contribution is very tiny.

I understand this is a problem with the fact that I'm not using linear space and HDR, since in HDR you would have much higher emissive values that can be displayed without overexposing, but the rgb space is essential to my art style. Is there anything that can be done?

I'm placing lights manually for light sources like ceiling lightbulbs or w.e, but it would be nice to be able to make floor neon trim emit properly, for instance

[inland imp]

idk where to ask, so i'll ask here.
i'm trying to bake lights for my indoor scene, and the bake stops at 99%, tried cpu and gpu lightmapper and does the same thing. unity version is 2020.3.19f

[inland imp]

and these are my lightmapping settings

[fading folio]

Hi! I have a cinema screen (AVProVideo) in a VR env and I'd like to project/illuminate the environment based on what's being shown. I've tried a Projector attached to the RenderTexture, but it seems to just blit the contents onto the entire scene with no fall-off or alpha. Is this the right approach? I'm wondering if I should just have an array of dynamic lights surrounding the screen and sampling...

what I have vs. what I want 😭

[deft fiber]

@inland imp before baking in your indoor scene, make sure your baking works in a blank scene with only some cubes and sample counts and resolutions turned very low

This way you can rule out if baking is totally nonfunctional in your system, or if it's something in the scene that's causing the hang up

[inland imp]

i tried in a scene with a plane and 2 cubes, and it worked fine, so idk what could be the problem. there are a few custom shaders, but they haven't caused the problem before.
*i now tried setting one of the cubes to the custom shaders and it baked fine.

[deft fiber]

Are there meshes with dense geometry marked as static in your scene?

I'm short on guesses but at least we've narrowed it down a bit

[inland imp]

no, but there are lots of single gameobjects, like bottles and stuff, all somewhat lowpoly

no wait ok, somehow i fixed it, probably the problem was the emission on some objects, i disabled baked gi for emission materials and now it baked fine

[stable patio]

I would say, bake white mask externally which will be projection mask, then you'd want a custom UVs on another channel which will be projected from the point of the screen, after that using lower quality video put into the texture channel that will be using those UVs and that mask to give it actuall like shadow etc.

[deft fiber]

You generally don't want clutter like that to be baked into lightmaps

Usually it just ends up wasting bake time as small objects are expensive to bake, yet lightmap resolutions are rarely detailed enough to give them accurate shadows

[inland imp]

Ok thanks for the tip! I'll do it later.

[slim flame]

Sorry the pic is so small, but how would I go about creating lighting like this?

It looks like a lot of ambient light, but the shadows are throwing me off

[scenic summit]

anyone know wht causes this?

[scenic summit]

@frigid zodiac how are you confirming its the normals, with these weird black lines on the mesh?

i even exported into PS and made sure it was a solid color and everything on those flat areas

[frigid zodiac]

because from what you sent of the normal, the black lines seem to be present there aswell

if it's a solid color, you actually don't need the normal

I mean this

[scenic summit]

i zoomed in 300% on the normals... this pattern is not in there, and does not disapear when i take the normal map off

[frigid zodiac]

Did you rebake after removing normal?

[scenic summit]

yes, and cleared the gi cashe

[frigid zodiac]

how does your lighting tab look like

[scenic summit]

its basically default atm

[frigid zodiac]

turn off compression. Increase lightmap size and scale a bit. Don't change anything relates to denoise

[scenic summit]

the normals are clean... i dont understand how the normals would project a black pattern like that

and yea, compression blows, and so does hardware limitations from the quest 2 lol

vr just blows with normals, i shouldnt bother with them anyways

can u show me where u see these black line pattern n the normals?

[covert stirrup]

I have this asset https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/video/youtube-video-player-youtube-api-29704 and it has a demo scene that does exactly what you describe

From a quick look it just seems to be using a light on each edge of the screen and passes colour and intensity from the video

[wise hawk]

HI again

I posted about tweaking the intensity of emissive materials in the lightmap bake

I tried placing area lights over the relevant texture bits manually

This is the result

What's up with the falloff curves? This looks completely unusuable xD

Is it because I'm in RGB space that the falloffs are calculated wrong somehow?

[wise hawk]

To me this looks like three things, spherical harmonics based ambient light, ambient occlusion in the creases and then a single directional light probably dynamic given the crispness of the shadow silhouettes

I think in unity you could achieve this either by baking global illumination with a decent resolution and then using a skybox ambient light then adding one realtime directional light

Or you could also do the AO in real time with post processing

I use a mix of baked lights and realtime AO typically to get the best possible result and so I dont have to have the lightmaps be too high resolution

also baked AO for some reason doesn't work with some of my shaders, I haven't really investigated

[steady tide]

hey I want to ask how I can remove that line what is on image ? there are 2 objects and that line is connecting to each other(i've made modular walls) maybe when the will have textures it will be gone, but I am curious how to get rid of it

[wise hawk]

That kind of just happens when you have multiple objects

and yeah, it's not really possible to realistically make a videogame level where all the geometry is in one mesh, namely because it prevents any kind of culling from happening at all

I try to put the seams in places where it's not too visible

Corners of walls for instance are a good candidate. Since the normals are going in two completely different directions there is no seam visible

Also, you're going to notice other issues by using split meshes like t-junctions creating shimmering pixel outlines. Also not really fixable and has been a problem in videogames since the 90s

maybe split it up like this instead:

[unique prism]

when I add a second camera my camera goes from this, to the second picture(im trying to add portals)

[boreal stream]

do you have post processing disabled on the second camera or something?

[unique prism]

no, it has post proccessing enabled

[rare torrent]

how do i change the skybox

ive searched but no methods work(lightning menu and dragging material to sky)

[boreal stream]

it's just in the environment tab...

[boreal stream]

ah you are in HDRP

I highly doubt you couldn't find anything online about this... but I will search google for you I guess https://youtu.be/qTOxeUXTt-c

and just send you the top result

[rare torrent]

probably i didnt find it cause i didnt search specifically bout hdrp

lol

anyway, thx

[hexed briar]

Hello !
I have some issues with lighting and shadow in my project
My project is using URP with a custom shadergraph
I've added a directionnal light to my scene, when i'm on my scene i can see shadows
but when i'm in my game, there's no shadow
I've tried to go to my Project Settings to adjust Shadows but Unity tell me that i'm using a Scriptable Render Pipeline
I've also tried to turn on "cast shadow" "render shadow" "receive shadow" but nothing changed

Does anyone have some answers to this problem ?
Thanks you and have a great day !

[languid wing]

Shadow settings will be in your UniversalRenderPipelineAsset, which is in your Assets folder somewhere

[hexed briar]

Thanks you very much !! ❤️

[mossy rivet]

Hey guys, I'm having some issues with popping shadows https://gyazo.com/1e371d3099e13e1bc1acd3c645814875

Anyone know why this might be happening?

I think it might be the GPU running out of VRAM

[steady tide]

oh thank you for reply, good idea to split it like this.. thanks

[swift junco]

Hey all, getting some weird issue with lighting.
in the first photo, you can see a red tint and a "flashlight" which works pretty well. In the second however, if I move my camera just a bit, the whole floor suddenly becomes unlit. Anyone know a fix?

[fallen nebula]

Hi

Anyone knows why this happens?

Im using a fog btw

Maybe its the one messing with the rendering

[pine eagle]

So, real-time shadows are drawn up to a certain range (shadow distance) based on the distance between the shadow caster and the camera, anyway to use something other than the camera to calculate the range?

[pearl orbit]

hey uh anyone know how to add bounced lighting???

im confused cus the shadows are messing up

also im making a realism mod for gta 5

[visual belfry]

doesn't bounced lighting have to be baked?

unless you use a realtime GI package

[wise hawk]

You mean like cast shadows around an object?

You can try looking in the cgincs if you want but i feel like that might be based on depth, not distance

so it might not be possible

[pine eagle]

You're probably right

[marsh dust]

Hello! I have a reflection probe placement issue;

I have several buildings in a village/town that are rotated off grid (I.E. not sitting at a right angle), and from what I've read so far it seems that I can't rotate the reflection probe volumes to encompass these buildings.

...What the heck do I do?? 😄

[timber lichen]

how do you get rid of bloom from some stuff. i have some lights i want to apply bloom to but my text ui elements are also getting effected

[vapid quail]

#💻┃unity-talk message

this might be helpful

im gonna try to follow this too later

[timber lichen]

sweet thanks ill give it a shot

welp that didnt seem to work

[timber lichen]

ok so i found something that works decnetly well, if you have an emmisive texture your using for a light or something just make the emmision intensity brighter than you can still use bloom but just have it way lower and it should still give off the same looking effect

without making everything else look funky

[vapid quail]

cool thanks 😄

[cosmic dragon]

I have another issue, I made a scene with the actual game and everything looks fine (see first image) but then when I play that scene through the menu it looks wierd (see second image) any reason y?

everything else works fine

ping me

[quick saddle]

which menu?

the scene or game window?

[deft fiber]

This can happen for a couple of reasons, mainly that the scene cannot find usable lighting data when changing from one scene to another
The fix is usually to create new lighting settings for the scene and generate lighting, and make sure your light's type (realtime/baked/mixed) matches the type of lighting your scene is meant to be using
Sometimes the only fix seems to be to change environment lighting source to use something other than the default procedural skybox

But also in some cases it's an editor-only bug that might not occur when you've made a build

[cosmic dragon]

ok

[fresh venture]

Hello! Does anyone know how to apply global light in Unity 2D so the sprites look like in art?

[hollow tundra]

someone said this might technically be a lighting question.

So I have a weird issue. I am trying to change a reflection probe via code. Specifically, I am trying to invert the probe (rotating the Y and -Y, and flipping the Z, -Z, X, and -X). Is there a way to do this easily?

[timber lichen]

why is the lighting so bright

(its not the directional light)

its really weird

i fixed it

[vapid quail]

Any advice on how to make this scene look more realistic? This is baked lighting in HDRP with an area light inside the screen and the material on the screen is an unlit mat

the light illuminates the table well but the monitor seems unrealistically lit

[vapid quail]

1st pick is baked, 2nd is realtime

why does baked look so horrible 😢

[vapid quail]

increased texels to 20, and helped it a little

still doesnt feel nearly as sharp, i guess ill try a really high value

[vapid quail]

cranked it to 70 and i suppose this is pretty good

guess i just needed more texels and nothing special

[pearl orbit]

you can make the colors more iridescent and also you can add drop shadow to the screen, also make it reflect a bit so it would look alot more realistic

[twin breach]

does anyone know why my lighting is giving these weird shadows on our couches/ table???

[vapid quail]

Googled drop shadows and it seems like something for a 2D asset, not sure what you mean by this

I'll look into the reflection thanks 🤠

[pearl orbit]

np

[vapid quail]

I see this kind of artifacting when I didn't bake the scene fully but idk 🤔

[pearl orbit]

also my drop shadows i mean make the shadows more intense, not by much tho

and make a fade effect with the lighting

[vapid quail]

Is that set in the light itself or something else?

[pearl orbit]

just

make a fade effect with the lighting

because its much more realistic

ur straight up just cancelling it out which doesnt happen in real life

[vapid quail]

Sorry stupid question but is this something in hdrp project settings or somewhere on the light components

[pearl orbit]

not stupid at all feel free to ask questions, and its in the light components

look thoroughly enough

[vapid quail]

Awesome I will thanks

[pearl orbit]

:D

[twin breach]

hmmm

[timber lichen]

i was baking some lighting and everything looks good except for a few things, as you can see there are a few like cuts in the lighting and on the handles theres like these wierd black bars

[soft apex]

Fairly new to Unity - running into an issue with Bakery lightmaps: I've got meshes that are refusing to receive or contribute to GI

Normals are all facing the correct direction, also set a lightmap parameter object with backface tolerance to 0

[timber lichen]

I have a problem where I am trying to disable the fog other people have went to lighting settings to disable it but I do not have a option in lighting settings to disable fog.

Never mind im dumb I just had to click on environment settings.

[soft apex]

I think I was getting mixed up with emissive textures vs light meshes. Large overhead light should have been a standard emissive texture vs a light mesh (which the manual says is for smaller lights).

[marsh dust]

Howdy! Any idea how to set up a reflection probe(s) for a building that is rotated off grid, I.E. not at a 90 degree/right angle, since reflection probes can't be rotated?

[mental pasture]

Does anyone know why my light probe group, doesn't actually have any light probes? The "Add Probe" button doesn't do anything as well.

Also, I have global illumination and all baked lighting off currently. I have a single Reflection Probe in my scene and choose to "Build Reflection Probes" and it simply gets stuck on Importing "GI.Tick" until I end the Unity task.

[marsh dust]

@mental pasture If you check under the lighting window, you might have light probe visualization off. Check the Gizmos too, as the probes but be turned off there

@mental pastureer

[mental pasture]

Thank you for the help, I should have mentioned that I do have light probe visualization on, as well the gizmos on, but it doesn't fix the problem.

I'd show you but I need to reopen my project because I tried to build a single reflection probe lol. Really not sure why it would get stuck on GI.Tick when I have global illumination off.

[marsh dust]

Hm...the GI.Tick thing is a bit outside my experience at the moment so I can't really offer much in the way of help there. Google/Unity documentation doesn't have more to say on that?

[mental pasture]

Unfortunately, not that I have found so far. I have been googling about GI.Tick getting stuck, Unity getting stuck on importing the reflection probe .exr files when it does manage to make them sometimes, and checking the docs but haven't found anything. Thanks though.

[marsh dust]

Is it just that one scene where you're getting the issue? Have you tried adding a light probe group and reflection probe to a fresh scene?

[mental pasture]

Same problem of no light probes in a fresh scene, thanks for the idea though.

[marsh dust]

Ah, okay! That's good! Narrows things down a bunch

Which pipeline are you using? Built-in or SRP?

[mental pasture]

SRP, specifically URP

[marsh dust]

I'm using URP as well, but I'm on still on Unity 2019

[mental pasture]

I am on 2021.2.1f1, I'm starting to wonder if I should have gone with the LTS though. I think there is an update to 2021 I could get but I would be surprised if that fixed my issues.

[marsh dust]

It seem to be have been an issue found previously, although it has supposedly been fixed in specific versions of Unity

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/light-probe-gizmos-are-not-visible

Maybe testing out the LTS version would be worthwhile

[mental pasture]

Oh, interesting, thanks for looking into that, changing Unity versions will probably cause some headaches but I am early enough into this project that it is still viable. Thanks so much.

[marsh dust]

Here's hoping someone else chimes in with a proper answer for you!

[mental pasture]

Well what do you know, updated to 2021.2.5f1 and it did indeed fix the light probes not showing up!

It also fixed my Reflection Probe baking, hallelujah.

[minor ingot]

have unity implement any some sort of real time / run time GI?
doesnt have to be fast of accurate, just look better than without GI

scene is dynamic, created at beginning of runtime
so no lightbaking possible.

last time there was SEGI, but havent update for years
archviz app, SRP atm, probably going to URP later (or HDRP in the future)

[void tusk]

Hey, sorry for asking, but I couldn't find anything online about shadow atlas resolution -- is it possible to increase it beyond 4k? Currently just adding two point lights breaches the limit on the shadow atlas. Normally it wouldn't matter, I'm sure, but you get 450ms spikes in the build every single time you turn towards the area where these lights are

[mental pasture]

There is this which is inspired by SEGI. I haven't tried it though.

https://github.com/Looooong/Unity-SRP-VXGI

[fickle needle]

There's Screen space GI in unity, as of 2021.2 it's pretty good but still has the big limitations of any screen-space effect.

But that's about it, there's also enlighten but you have to bake, although i'm happy they brought it back, a shame they didn't come up with their promised realtime GI solution. Hopefully in the future.

[minor ingot]

SSGI is HDRP only right?
at least i read the roadmap long time ago

[fickle needle]

Yeah

[limber delta]

Hey! I was wondering if area lights in Unity (URP) are supposed to ignore the shape? (rectangle) I get circular light shapes when using them. Thanks

[mental pasture]

Does anyone know why my reflection probes, in both real time and in baked are completely black? The meshes in my scene are set to static and realtime reflections are enabled in the quality section of the project settings. It's very strange behavior, sometimes I can get them to bake a reflection if I copy all my assets into a new scene, but if I try to bake again, they go black and stay that way. I figured if bake wasn't working I could use real time on awake but then in game the reflection probes are just black.

I'm not using baked lighting but I assume reflection probes don't require that. With HDR off, they do work in realtime and bake but the color is completely wrong.

HDR on and they are just black.

[mental pasture]

I'm using URP in 2021.2.5f1 and just whipped up a quick test for you, the rectangle area light seems to bake just fine. (Also my real time reflection probe in this scene is indeed black lol)

[limber delta]

Really appreciate this. If you make it smaller and more rectangle shaped. How does that look? (if you have time to test this)

[mental pasture]

Oh, yeah this does kinda give circular vibes but could be because how light is bouncing? I'm no expert as you can tell lol.

[limber delta]

Hehe, yeah. I'm starting to see the same thing that is happening to me. I don't get it 😅

There's a thread about it here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/hdrp-area-lights-does-not-work-ignoring-shape.859807/
But it doesn't really help me (no solution)

Here's a test I did. Area light.

[mental pasture]

With an even smaller rectangle

Versus disc

[limber delta]

Yes, haha

Man, it has been annoying me for months.

[mental pasture]

Soo, maybe that's just how they work? This is an image (but of HDRP real time area light) and it doesn't seem to light specifically in a rectangular area.

[limber delta]

Yes, this is what I have assumed. Thats just how it is. I guess the advantage of using them is the soft light fall-off you get

[mental pasture]

Yeah guess so, found this old screenshot of built in baked rectangular area light and it seems to just be how they work.

[limber delta]

Yes. Thanks for testing with me, really appreciate it.

[mental pasture]

No problem, I know how annoying it can be when Unity doesn't behave like you expect it to. I think tinkering around in that scene just helped me figure out my black reflection probes as well. When I disable my screen space outline on my URP Renderer, the reflection probes bake fine in this scene. 😁

[wicked scroll]

Does anyone know why the top right might be pixelated in this?

[slate zephyr]

Does anyone know what causes the lighting to look the way it is on the left

Im using Mesh.RecalculateNormals

For my generated cube

[golden dock]

why none of the objects in my scene have settings for Reflection Probes in their mesh renderers?

[steady tide]

hey, I have modular walls and floor and when I bake lights I am getting this weird line between 2 connected objects... maybe it's not visible too much on walls on image but it can be seen on the floor, any tip or help how can I fix this ?

[buoyant ferry]

Hello. I need to make an object, load a texture (jpg) on it and make it emit light to other objects around it. Im trying to do something with emission but no luck

any tips on what i should be looking for?

[timber lichen]

how can i fix this edge ?

[pseudo ember]

What is the default light falloff in Unity? Edit: found the answer, it's linear falloff ^^

[marsh dust]

Does anyone have a solution for rotating a reflection probe's bounding box to fit something that isn't rotated at 90 degrees?

[limber delta]

I don't think this can be done. Otherwise I'd like to know as well 🙂

Just make several probes. They can intersect.

[limber delta]

Not sure what's happening here but the cube to the right looks like a smoothed cube without "auto smooth" activated (Blender).

[limber delta]

What settings are you looking for? You'll find the settings on the actual refl. probe.

[golden dock]

im looking for this

[limber delta]

Weird, I have it . V2021.2.4f1

[quaint lark]

hi so I've been messing around with 2d lighting and shadows, just experimenting, and my 2d shadows are very pixelated for some reason (I'm using the shadow caster 2d component)

[soft apex]

any idea why an emissive material would just refuse to contribute to baked GI?

[fickle needle]

👀

he has a post In #archived-hdrp as well

[tawdry cobalt]

Extremely new to Unity so I apologise if this is a very dumb scenario. I have a maze that swaps out with other wall layouts, each layout is parented to an empty and has it's own light sources. The swapping is done by setting the parent empty to active/inactive. Is there a way to bake the lighting per layout, or do I have to make each maze layout it's own room and move them in, instead of just activating/deactivating the empty? This image shows one layout I have for the maze

[marsh dust]

The issue I've been getting with intersecting reflection probes is that there is inevitably an area where the player is outside of a building, but they are inside of the bounding box of a probe inside the building, and the reflection/lighting is incorrect :\

Thanks for responding though! I'd posted the question multiple times over a few days without so much as a peep from anyone 😄

[limber delta]

I see. Sorry I couldn't really help out. I'm relatively new to Unity as well.
Yeah, it's tough getting help sometimes. I think it has to to with the complexity of what we are dealing with 🙂 It can be so many things and it's hard to help someone based on just a couple of sentences and perhaps a screenshot.

[mental pasture]

You can't bake lighting and then change the scene at runtime without the lighting looking wrong. You could manually bake for each different layout and save them as prefabs with this though. https://github.com/nukadelic/Unity-Lightmap-Prefab-Baker

[tawdry cobalt]

Would the moving of entire rooms not work fine, or would that run into issues as well?

[mental pasture]

Just swapping the entire maze room out from under the player should be fine if that's what you mean.

[tawdry cobalt]

Yeah I'm now using this method

Not gotten a bake done yet though

[mental pasture]

As someone working on a game with procedural level generation, I know stuff like this does get tricky but if your not pressed for performance or amount of combinations your solution is fine.

[tawdry cobalt]

Should be fine if this works, for curiosty's sake, what would be the better solution?

[mental pasture]

There really aren't any. I'm forced into doing all my lighting real time. I believe HDRP allows for some real time Global Illumination but I haven't looked into it and am on URP. I looked into baking the lighting into prefabs but it didn't work for me for a similar reason, props, walls, and doors are all generated randomly at runtime.

The one benefit of baking lighting into prefabs would not having to have extra unused mazes in the scene.

[tawdry cobalt]

I feel like my baking is taking way too long, especially since I've given it low settings to test. Only reached one percent so far

[mental pasture]

I believe you could change the lightmapper to the GPU one to speed it up

[tawdry cobalt]

Thanks, I'll try that

[main wolf]

You can bake and save lightmap informations into prefabs, as long as the prefabs is shown on the same scene.
https://unity.com/how-to/advanced/optimize-lighting-mobile-games?_ga=2.127052426.60874515.1639129723-2023707150.1591573095

Or here
https://github.com/Ayfel/PrefabLightmapping

[lost scroll]

Are shadow casters completely broken for anyone in 2D URP 2021.2?

[little dust]

any way to bake lightmaps for skinned meshes? apppreciate the help, thanks

[lapis nacelle]

Don't know if this should go here, but I got a problem

The lighting seems to not be here whenever i build the game

But in game it's completly fine

[manic chasm]

I have an issue where when I bake lighting global illumination preprocessing gets stuck on 54% but global illumination finishes

[formal escarp]

hey guys, whenever i set the project quality to medium or high, everything works well:

but when set it to low, all of the lights stop working:

what do i do?

[dapper glen]

What render path are you using ? It may be forward rendering cutting off lights.

[sick wyvern]

Hello! Does somebody knows how to enable the light back ?

[chilly crane]

hello, anyone knows how to fix these lightmapper issues? (on the ceiling, next to the door) i am using unity 2021.2.4f1

[limber delta]

In the Scene window.

[timber lichen]

i have an emmisive material on an object and im tryna bake a light map but this is the only result i get

just pitch black everything

i have baked global illumination on in lighting as well as the global illumination on the emmision material set to baked

wait nvm im dumb i forgot to mark the cubes as static xD

[sick wyvern]

thank u so much!

[glass mulch]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497872469911404564/918194470825119774/2021-12-08_12-03-47.mp4 I am using spot lights to illuminate the crystals and a shader with noise map altered over time to control the emission intensity on the crystals, is there any way to sync the brightness of the lights to the intensity of the emission on the crystals?

[violet sinew]

How turn off

Shadows

they look so shit in my beginner game

[sick wyvern]

@violet sinew

[main wolf]

more like ambient than shadow to me...
try brighten the ambient color

[limber delta]

Check out this tutorial if you want to improve your lighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6zUot73-gg&list=PL_fUBw8N69mBtgz2Lw9l0qcg3bGOi5Oah&index=4&t=2s

[zealous anchor]

Hello all

have a question about lighting

when i enter my scene from another scene it is dark

[lunar mauve]

you probably need to bake the lighting. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Lightmapping.html

[hardy vault]

https://imgur.com/a/Qu64tFC

Hey, Why only 4 first lights are lit up?

[steady relic]

Anyone knows a way how to make Normalmaps for SVGs?

[zealous anchor]

yeah just fyi even if you turn everything to real time you have to click the bake button

[scenic summit]

how does it bake to this? UV light map is good

[heady jay]

Very helpful

[timber lichen]

@scenic summit the slim objects have got overlapping uvs (see the console log)? are they related the thin object?

[scenic summit]

it was the AO apprently

ty tho

[timber lichen]

okidoki, no problemo.

[cloud dove]

why when i try to bake the light everything turns black ?

knowing that i already enabled Generate lightmap UVs on the mech

[wise hawk]

Hey guys! I got a weird problem

I have this section of level where something happens and then the room blows up and the level mesh is replaced with a different, partially destroyed version.

Both of these meshes occupy the same space obviously.

How do I bake lightmaps for both the undestroyed and destroyed mesh?

If I bake lights with the destroyed mesh disabled and the undestroyed mesh enabled, the destroyed mesh gets no lights and the other one is lit

and vice versa

if I enable both and bake lights I get mega artifacting since a bunch of the polys are overlapping.

I know it's not possible to have both contribute to the GI correctly since the light bounces on one wouldn't be the same as the other, but I don't really care about that bit- I just want the destroyed mesh to not be using light probes, basically

[untold vine]

Google keeps turning up very old posts, so I'll ask here:
Is there a solution for baking lightmaps at runtime for procedurally generated levels?

[main wolf]

I don't think there is any, even using progressive, baking lightmaps could take hours.
But I think it should be possible to 'capture' the shadow map of every light so they dont have to be processed every frame
https://forum.unity.com/threads/procedural-static-point-lights-with-source.349155/?_ga=2.3815856.1477421411.1639811961-2023707150.1591573095

[maiden hemlock]

My google fu is turning up lacking for this..
What I'm seeing feels like the DynamicGi.UpdateEnvironment call fails in some way - the ambient lighting is full black ( except for unlits + skybox, as excepted). It only happens on Quest the first time it's being called, any following will correctly calculate the ambient light. That call seems to be a blackbox .. 😦 Hopefully someone can point me somewhere!

[calm stump]

Hello, I'm wondering why the box that comes with the downloaded scene works with baked lighting but the block box that i added from my modelling doesn't work

[cloud dove]

guys i really need help

baking light doesnt work

everything goes black

[stable patio]

make sure you have made Second UV channel for Lightmaps or check this box under your mesh import settings

[untold vine]

I'm trying out Unity 2021 for the first time, and realtime lights barely do anything.
I have to turn up a spotlight to max intensity for it to even have an effect, and its barely lighting anything. What am I doing wrong?

And where do I turn off ambient lighting? The environment tab in Rendering->Lighting looks like this for me:

[fiery cave]

hi

im very new to unity, so this question probably has a very obvious answer that i dont know about lol

im trying to get my objects to cast shadows

my player has a point light on it, and the 'shadow intensity' knob is cranked up to max

the block on the left is a tilemap, and the block on the right is just a sprite rectangle

i want it to cast shadows onto the background

but it wont :(

[untold vine]

Are you using URP?

[fiery cave]

yes

[untold vine]

This might be what you need: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.1/manual/2DShadows.html

[fiery cave]

thanks, ill take a look

the thing is

would it work with tilemaps

the player has Light 2D on it btw

thats how i got the light

if that changes anything

would i need to add it here instead

[untold vine]

If the component is on the tilemap itself, it might work. It might need the composite shadow caster

[fiery cave]

hm

ok

would i right click and add shadow caster 2d under here

or in the inspector channel

or are they just the same thing with different ui

[untold vine]

I believe so. I don't have URP in any of my projects, so can't confirm. It looks like you place it on anything that's 2D to get it to cast shadows

[fiery cave]

ok

i added shadow caster 2d to the tilemap and now it has a faint black outline

but i want it to cast shadows around it

[untold vine]

is the light exactly on the same plane?

[fiery cave]

im not sure what you mean by that

i got unity like yesterday

[untold vine]

make sure the light isn't floating above or below your tilemap

[fiery cave]

ok

z layer?

[untold vine]

yeah, make sure the z position is the same as your grid/tilemap

[fiery cave]

its the same

all 0

btw this is 2d

just in case you didnt know

probably should have mentioned that first lol

idk about composite shadow caster 2d tho

[untold vine]

2D lighting for sprites is fairly new in URP, maybe someone else can help out, as I haven't tried it yet myself

[fiery cave]

ok

[calm stump]

Why is there lines in the lights when baking

[wise hawk]

Late but

I don't believe that's possible using progressive lightmapper

however!

You can specify lightmaps at runtime.

So I think you'd have to come up with your own baking solution and then load the maps at runtime.

You could also design around it by having your level be made out of pre-baked chunks where the lights are fixed

There's also this, btw

https://github.com/sonicether/SEGI

I've never tried it but the demos look really good.

[zinc rapids]

Hello. Can somebody tell me why these black spots appear?

[humble heron]

It looks like z fighting. Is there duplicate geometry there?

[zinc rapids]

Nope

[calm stump]

@timber lichen <@&502884371011731486> scammer

[timber lichen]

guys how do i make my lighting match my skybox?

[summer aspen]

Environmental lighting can be set to use SkyBox as a source.

[cloud dove]

i have a question, i have an in room sense whish is closed room and i am using directional light, when its real time, the light is working and everything but when i bake it, everything goes dark, and when i removed the ceiling then bake, it works so does that mean i cant bake directional lights for closed room ?

[prisma burrow]

My lens flare is being blocked by colliders on other layers. Is there any fix to this? I need it to shine through.

I've tried ignore layers, culling masks, using the lens flare component over just the flare field in a light, etc. Nothing seems to work.

Strangely I have found a way where you can have a flare work through a collider that's on any level - you start the scene with the object not in the way, then onenable, move it between the camera and the light and the lens shows through. As I'm not able to do this with all my game objects, this strange workaround doesn't work for me

[prisma burrow]

Workaround for the above for anyone:

Lens flares are not affected by distance from camera in any way. So, if you have a distant object with some invisible colliders in and the camera, it will be blocked, but if you just detach the flare from the light and place it right next to the camera in the right spot, it gives the impression of being a lens flare of the distant object

[timber lichen]

Jeez, lighting's more complicated than I thought.

[cloud dove]

is it possible to bake the light without shadow ?

i disabled the rendering shadow but when i bake the light, there is self shadow appear

[plush mortar]

Hi guys any suggestion to improve mixed lights performance, I have a scene with 36 mixed pointlights and a directional light, this scene is a night scene I need those lights to cast a shadow for the player but keep a reasonable performance in a 2060 equivalent graphic´s card. any ideas?

[sweet willow]

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Im trying to draw my objects using command buffers, in a deferred renderer. All gbuffers are just fine except the reflections are black.

Using a regular surface shader, and this to add the draw call:
cb.DrawMeshInstanced(mesh, 0, material, material.FindPass("DEFERRED"), localToWorld);

[feral patrol]

https://gyazo.com/6e871924569e7075c9a221af292f45f3

can anyone explain how to fix this weird lighting issue?

[feral patrol]

anyone any expierence with these issues?

[exotic pivot]

Im having a problem with creating a uv lightmap for my object from blender. I unwrapped in the 1:1 bounds on a second uv map but the object still has overlapping uvs in unity. would appreciate any help

[tough hatch]

how can i get more accurate lighting? i have a sun in my game and it looks really weird in the ship because it lights the ship interior through the roof somehow, how can i get rid of that?

[sand forge]

Does anyone Knows what is causing this issue using Unity? 😅🤔🥲

[swift shadow]

in this dark scene how come some trees in the background are illuminated a little when the flashlight isnt pointed at it?

[tame tide]

Reflection maybe

[swift shadow]

how do i solve that?

[tame tide]

Remove metalness/gloss/specular/whatever its called in the unity material editor

[swift shadow]

okay I'll try it! thanks

[swift shadow]

would it be for the tree texture? also where would i find this, ive been looking about but cant find anything

when i get closer to the trees they turn black like they should...

[tame tide]

Hm

Well thats an odd one to me, could be ambient occlusion/some other global illumination system

[warped vessel]

Hello! Anyone knows why this happens? I have some sort of a lightbeam with emissive values and all that stuff and when I cross two of them, it seems that this emissive value kind of multiplies in a way that it turns completely black.

[proud nacelle]

hello, why does my 64x64 texture look blurry
how do I turn the texture filtering (?) off

[stark temple]

https://help.vertx.xyz/graphics/textures/filter-mode

[proud nacelle]

ok one more question though
when i view it in windows photo viewer

it also seems kinda blurry

but it is a 64 px texture
so will this affect the unity import

[stark temple]

it does the same filtering

no

[proud nacelle]

oh so windows photo does its own texture filtering too
ok thanks

[swift shadow]

why are trees glowing in the background when no light is shining at it

[bitter tangle]

Do they stop shining when you turn off that ground light? (And start again when you turn it on?)

[lean badger]

Hi, how can I modify my light to have blurry shadows ?

[swift shadow]

that was the issue!!! yeah i found it myself lol, sometimes its the most obvious things you overlook! (wait actually that was for another issue LOL)

[vagrant oasis]

Banding on my spotlight cookies. any idea how to fix that?

[zenith star]

Im trying to set up a cookie for my spot light but i can't find the option for it on the spot light

[golden dock]

how can i disable reflection probes for specific objects?

[chilly crane]

heyo anyone knows what could cause some lights in this hdrp scene passing through walls?

[pastel sky]

possibly the object not reaching the other object?

[chilly crane]

ok nvm fixed it just by setting the lightmap parameters to high resolution

[subtle tartan]

So im trying to bake lights, but im getting absurd times like 2 days, can someone help? here are my lightmapper settings, im using a standerd 3d project

[wispy goblet]

For a " rough/fast" bake you can drop the texel density very low just to check it 2-3 maybe just to see.

Depending on your scene complexity your direct, in and environment samples also play a key part of your set up.

These factors all depend on scene features like, internal external, are probes preset, lightmaps per mesh scaled properly for your project, and of course the resolution of the rest.

Also if you've used the progressive mapper and cancelled lots, you can still build up GI cache in the preferences, this includes data that may have errored or corrupted, that can often lead to bake loops or gui paint loops.
I'd caution deleting cache data unless you're sure you can though, only cause this data space is shared across engine projects.

[rough lynx]

can anyone link me a good interior lighting video for urp

[rare oracle]

need to figure out how to determine if a light is being cast on an object in order tp destroy the lit object..

[trail bear]

I have no Idea what I messed up, but shadows only render around the ball, which the camera is centered around

[trail bear]

it has gotten worse 🥴

[lunar mauve]

like directly? will a raycast from the light to the object work?

[plucky sun]

how much resolution of shadowmap should be used, for a 100mx100m scene?

without cascade shadowmap

a single one

[rare oracle]

+It could work, but eventually there would be over 40+ objects to raycast everyframe

[swift shadow]

how can i make it so the directional light on the lamppost has a cylindrical glow around it?

[mellow sierra]

In the future, ping the mods instead for moderation issues.

[swift shadow]

okay my bad

[lunar mauve]

(I'm far from an expert on this subject, so take this with a grain of salt)

raycasts are not that expensive and most lighting happens on the GPU. I suspect any other method of determining whether an object is illuminated on the CPU will be more expensive than raycasting. This is all assuming the lighting will be changing dynamically. If the lighting is fixed, there's probably some way you could precompute the areas that are illuminated/not, but that would be a pretty involved project.

[main wolf]

Lens Flare?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-LensFlare.html

[main wolf]

You can minimize it using trigger sphere colliders, if it enters the collider, then raycast from the light

[main wolf]

Or do you mean something like this?
You can use volumetric hdrp I think, but I'm faking it using linerenderer

[granite hemlock]

hi
i don't know why, but when i bake lightmaps all of materials that containts black elements just become pure black and doesn't reflect anything. I have no idea why and I am out of ideas. On dynamic lighting it seems normal but when i bake lightmaps it's getting out of hands 😐
here is example on dynamic light

and on baked lightmaps

[swift shadow]

yes thanks!

@main wolf this is without using scene lighting using hdrp

and then when i toggle scene lighting it looks like this!

my road goes transparent!? why is this

[main wolf]

I'm not sure, but I dont think it's transparent, instead it's reflective, maybe it has something to do with metallic or smoothness properties

[swift shadow]

i got it thanks

@main wolf halos arent working when i upgraded to hdrp

any ideas?

[proven hollow]

okay so, i would like all things outside of shadow render distance to be textured as if they are in a shadow

how would i do this?

[strong loom]

Hi guys, i have a quick question. Did somebody resolved the Shadow Map error for 2021.2.7? Every time you enable Shadow Map on any given light source, an error will appear eventually. In a Github PR a Unity developer already fixed the problem or gave a solution in the script file but how do you edit a read-only package script? Does somebody maybe know more?

[main wolf]

Seems like both halo and lens flare are not supported on hdrp
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition@13.1/manual/Feature-Comparison.html

[oblique crown]

lens flares are for sure supported on hdrp 12+

[main wolf]

Not according to the manual above

[oblique crown]

but according to the manual here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition@12.0/manual/lens-flare-data-driven-component.html

[fickle needle]

that comparison can be quite out of date sometimes.
Although halo isn't, you have real volumetric fog which would do about the same thing

[main wolf]

yeah, could be outdated
also could be that the one in comparison is for the built in lens flare

[brave nest]

anyone know how to fix this blue-ish light im using urp. this rectangle should be black

[glad fox]

I have a problem that I want to solve ASAP:
When I change scene the light goes crazy, I baked the light on the main outdoor scene and it looks fine, but then I go into a dungeon (a different scene) but then when I get out, the main scene light gets messed up, for example the grass is horrible and the shadows are 100% black 😵‍💫

[glad fox]

This is when I start the game...

and this is once I get out from the Dungeon (a different scene) and get back into the outdoor scene

[tame tide]

are you creating lights on your Start() or something? looks like the light doubled.

[proper holly]

@brave nest that kinda looks like ambient light coming from the skybox, or enviroment reflections - check Lighting/Environment tab

[thick light]

How do i make my shadows smoother

[proper holly]

enable smooth shadows and increase shadow resolution, both pretty costly

[rich meadow]

Hey guys does any1 know how to apply uv lightmaps on UMA character assets, it doesnt have the option like it should when you import fbx files.. So my objects that emit emissive light doesnt work on my UMA character. ):

[tropic tartan]

I am at a loss, ive asked 2 people and have tried nearly everything to get these seams from the lightmaps to go away. Is Unity just bad at lightmaps? Did I do something wrong when i made the lightmap UVs? Is there something Im missing? I spent all day yesterday trying to fix this

these are modular pieces, just a plane

[proper holly]

@winter token are you positive the meshes you're lightmapping have a set of proper UV2s?

if not, unity can generate them in the model's import options, at the very bottom

@tropic tartan have you tried increasing the margins?

[tropic tartan]

on my unwrap?

ive tried making it 1:1 since the plane is a square, and ive tried giving it a bit of space between the island and the border of the 1:1 texture space

[gilded cloak]

I have a light attached to a projectile and sometimes it shows and other times it doesn't. Here's a quick clip, the unit at the bottom firing the red projectile, the first half of the clip it's there consistently, but starting at about 13 seconds it's not always showing or starts to show later in it's travel rather than right away. How come that is?

https://streamable.com/9ql6ho

If I up the number of lights in the quality settings it shows, but it was only set to 4 even on Very High. What's the proper way to be lighting projectiles then if the limit is so small? Or is it okay to up that considerably?

[tropic tartan]

i honestly think Unity's lightmapper is terrible and there is no way around this, I thought maybe I was doing something wrong but I feel like i have tried everything.

Modularity is ridiculously common in game level art, and for Unity to so royally screw up its lightmapper to not handle this type of level creation is stupid. I feel so much like it must be something I am doing wrong, but I literally cannot find a solution anywhere

like its literally a square, a volume, and an emission shader

[tropic tartan]

Like i guess for this hallway i can make the ceiling one mesh, but its really annoying, and makes me wonder if this problem will come up when i use modularity anywhere else, which for simplicity and performance I will have to

[tropic tartan]

played with it for a few more hours, still cant get any better of a result, just different looking seams

[crystal zephyr]

So I'm trying to bake my level in unity by literal kilobytes of baking being done with GPU, cause with CPU it goes pretty slow... every time I do this, it auto switches back to CPU for no reason
it didn't do this before when I baked it earlier today for hours on end, and now it's being annoying as hell and i don't know what is wrong with it
the best i have is this:

OpenCL Error. Falling back to CPU lightmapper.
it wont even let me select a GPU baking device, suddenly it is grayed out

[main wolf]

seems like need some padding
https://docs.unity3d.com/uploads/Main/LightingGiUvs-GeneratingLightmappingUVs-0.jpg

Also maybe disabling compression on lightmap texture

[crystal zephyr]

i really hope someone can help me with this considering i've been at this for the whole week with no progress made

[proper holly]

@tropic tartan i meant the padding in the lightmapper

do those seams happen at geometry intersections, or are they completely random?

[keen pike]

Hi, i have switched my project to the URP and now i got some issues with the lightning, i have a exterior and a Cave, exterioir lightning is good but in the cave its get totally dark (seems logic) but also the cave and terrain floor does not response to the lights inside the cave if i not turn up the intensity up to 500+ per light... Cave Meshes are static, lights in mixed mode, directional light is realtime

the pointlight settings from the screenshot above

thank you for your help, already wasted 2 days and cannot figure it out

[acoustic pilot]

I disabled auto-generate lighting and global illumination, but they're still active and I don't know what to do

[keen pike]

what you mean with still active? if you have baked lightmaps you have to delete them also

[summer aspen]

!ban 919126781812944906 Scam

[tawdry schooner]

Nassty#1824 was banned

[acoustic pilot]

No I don't have them. I tried to reboot the PC, cleaning cache etc... but global illumination won't turn off

[keen pike]

may it comes from your enviroment Lightning

[acoustic pilot]

How can I disable it?

Sorry for bad eng btw

[keen pike]

in your light settings, turn down the intensity multiplier to 0

otherwise send a screenshot from your issue

[acoustic pilot]

Thank you!

It worked

+rep @keen pike

[keen pike]

Perfect, I'm glad i could help!

[keen pike]

i added some more light probes and some area lights in the cave, looks a lil bit better now, is this the way to go?

[proper holly]

@keen pike do you have reflection probes in there? they tend to brighten up indoor areas a lot

[keen pike]

thanks i will give it a try, i will place some and bake it again. Right now there is no reflection probe in the scene

[tropic tartan]

They are happening at geometry

[proper holly]

Have you tried letting unity make the UV2 unwrap in mesh import settings or fiddled with the settings of that?

[tropic tartan]

I have, I have fiddled with the padding as well

The seams are still there but I got them to be as subtle as possible, with the idea that most people won’t look up at the ceiling and immediately notice the seams

But it’s still really infuriating

[proper holly]

which mapper are you using, progressive gpu?

[tropic tartan]

Yes

[proper holly]

try a bake with cpu

or even enlighten

see how that goes

i've had issues with the gpu one, where it just wouldn't "like" a particular scene and never bake right

[tropic tartan]

Yeah I can try, CPU takes long and I assumed GPU would be better because I am using a RTX 3080

[eager coyote]

Alright, this is gonna be a rough question, but what would be a good workaround for 3d lights in a 2d environment?

for context I'm doing a 2.5d sort of game

think Ori and the Blind Forest

for specifics, I'm talking something like moonlight through a window, where the moon itself is in the background but the window is in the midground

[rough lynx]

Can someone please dm me a good interior lighting video, using probuilder I created a cube with flipped normals. Added emissive lights, an area light with reflection probes and baked with gpu progressive but I can't seem to get a good result

I've managed to get really good visuals with ue4 but can't seem to get anything similar with unity

I know it's possible but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong

[keen pike]

Do you set the Static Flag to the objects?

So still try to understand whats happening here with my cave, this light looks light low intensity but to get this look i had to turn up Intensity to 300, in Build-In i got the same visual effect with a intensity of 2-4

Here are my light settings

The Spot light:

Added Light Probes and Reflection Probes to the cave

is it normal cause a dark cave would not have much light in reality too? Should a Spotlight from the cave celling with this intensity fill more area of the cave with light? Also there are lights coming from the entrance of the cave

Here another example of the cave:

the terrain has the same terrain layer(texture) in and outsite of the cave

i think i just missing something basic here, cause i was a while away from game developing and unity... Ah and BTW this is 2020.3.25f1 URP 10.7.0

[tropic tartan]

im still new to unitys lighting but maybe some of your settings might be changing the way light bounces around which makes it looks a bit less bright, adding a volume or post process might work, or maybe your scene is just very large so you need more intensity to begin with

[keen pike]

idk if its very large, it has 7x 1000x1000 terrains at the moment

[tropic tartan]

what units is that

[keen pike]

if think its Unity Units

didnt changed anything about the metric

[tropic tartan]

Is this whole scene just the cave or is there an outside as well, maybe using a directional light would work better

[keen pike]

just updated a build-in RP project to URP

It has a directional light for the outside scene, the cave iss just a small part of the scene

(dont laught at my current level design skills)

the scene has one directional light

the intensity here works normal

maybe its coming from the shadowmask, thats too idk "Hard" and need a very bright light? if so how could i deal with it?

[tropic tartan]

was gonna say

not entirely sure how shadowmask works, but i usually use baked indirect

[keen pike]

i tried now to lower the shadow strength of the directional light, seems to be much better, i will bake it quickly an check it again

if it just was this small setting i hate myself for wasting 4-5 days to this xD

[tropic tartan]

i spent 2 days trying to fix a lightmap seam, and pretty much just continued with everything else, with the "Its good enough and i cant seem to get it any better"

mentality

[crude fox]

Would shadows go here?

I'm working at a miniature scale, my main character being 18mmx18mm, so my shadows are really low quality

[rain swan]

Hey there, i'm using models with UV overlap (i used it to save space on UV space) but Unity isn't happy when i'm baking my lights and having objects with overlapping UV's.
how to deal with that ?
"There are 619 objects in the Scene with overlapping UV's. Please see the details list below or use the 'UV Overlap' visualisation mode in the Scene View or Lightmaps in Lighting Settings for more information."
I tried checking "generating lightmaps" on the import settings of my models, but it create strange errors when baking
[PathTracer] Failed to add geometry for mesh 'pCube799'; mesh contains non-finite values.
Any advices ? Thanks a lot !

[tropic tartan]

Light map UVs can’t be overlapping

Use a UV channel separate to your UV channel used for your textures for your light map UVs

I believe Unity automatically assumes the 2nd UV channel is your light map but I may be wrong, if you don’t have a light map UV and don’t have generate Lightmap UVs ticked I’m not sure what it does

[keen pike]

ok thanks to Kasper and the others! I managed to get a better lightning with your help, adjusted the shaders for the cave walls and lower the shadows strenght for the real time does the job, still i have to put some long spot lights to very high amounts of intensity but its still looks good, maybe this is just a normal change in the URP to build-in

btw does the the progessiv GPU also crash every 2-3 time you bake? I know its a preview feature, just wondering if my gpu is just too lowbob

[hallow stag]

Guys, i just learned that object with white color has emissive value of 0 and will reflect the radiation. Object with black color has emissive value of 1 and will absorb light. But it seems flipped with any 3d engine which more than 1 means emiting light. Can anyone give me some physic explaination for this ? Did i confused something with another thing ?

Here's the formula
P = σεAT⁴
ε is emmisivity
Which 0 < ε < 1

[proper holly]

@keen pike unity can't get the GPU lightmapper right for... 4 years(?) now

i personally use Bakery (a paid asset) for lightmaps, which has its own problems, but actually looks good and works most of the time

[rain swan]

My material occlusion map is acting very weird, there isn't a 3D gap between the kind of square and the wall but depending on how i'm rotating my camera, the black shadow shows a gap in Unity. I imported walls & walls details (empty squares) from substance painter so as the AO map of this model.
i think i've made something wrong, how to deal with imported AO map to don't have this kind of artifacts ? thanks a lot

[keen pike]

ok thought its time for a upgrade from my 2080ti 😄

[scenic summit]

how do u fix this horrible uv on a round surface?

[remote stream]

Hi all, I am a lighting novice but trying my hand on a group hobby project. The assets in the scene are all low-poly (meant to evoke a PS1 aesthetic). Trying to bake lighting but getting this bizarre artifacting on many of the assets. Anyone have any ideas on how I might address this issue:

[rapid lynx]

how do i add the fog thing on a light
like a spotlight but instead of the light only being visible on what it hits it's visible all the way there
idk how to explain that much

[rapid lynx]

like this

[keen pike]

i think you mean volumetric lights

[rapid lynx]

yeah

[minor meadow]

Yo

[crude fox]

Does anyone know how Lumen scales?

I'm making a "miniature" scale scene, so my main marble character is 18mm in real life, so it's 1.8m in the game world. I've scaled the volume by 10,000 to make up for that, but I'm not sure how lights are scaled to make them realistic?

(I'm using HDRP by the way.)

[faint ridge]

Hi is there someone who can help me pls.
my ground is light only when i'm looking it

[keen pike]

1000 lumens are ~150-200 meters

[keen pike]

more info needed for help

[crude fox]

So, if my scene is 100x larger than real life scale, it would be 100,000 lumens?

[keen pike]

I'm really not a pro in lightning so forgive me if i say nonsense but i woud say yes

as i learned URP does most lightning range over the intensity parameter in the build in it comes mostly from range parameter that caused a weired lightning after i switched the pipelines

[faint ridge]

i think my fog is too strong
but i want to light the ground and keep the dark effect in front of my character

[fresh oracle]

Howdy. I have some issues with Realtime GI

In some corners / edges I have these "lights"

I will post some pictures with my settings

[stable patio]

Did you make your own Lightmap UVs? if not check your import setting for padding, Unity's automatic settings sets padding too low so most times you will see this kind of bleeding, otherwise you can make second channel in Modelling program and disable Import generation and it should work even better

[fresh oracle]

Where can I find these settings?

[hexed birch]

Hi. How to make the world space canvas be affected by light probes?

[fresh oracle]

I found this!

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

[crude fox]

My lighting is still really dark?

The hdri is at 1 exposure

[crude fox]

For some reason lights wont affect my lamp

[vocal granite]

im getting some wierd effects here, the floor isnt pitch black when it should be, and i get this wierd black strip at the end away from the light sources

help would be appreciated

[rich meadow]

Hey guys, does anyone know if its okay to have lots of light probes in my scene regarding performance issues or is this okay for it to be like this?