#its looking nicer
halcyon mesa
Let's keep going here
So make a new reflection probe and make it envelop just that area inside that you have your light-
For this architecture you probably need two reflection probes so that you don't sample the outside
They should capture the whole volume of the inside and slightly overlap
rustic willow
ah, so change their range to fill the entire L-shaped room basically?
halcyon mesa
Yes!
They should be beyond the inner-facing walls but not go all the way outside if that makes sense
rustic willow
gotcha
this is effectively a big 3D Box Collider for light then? Never used this tool
halcyon mesa
Uh not exactly, it's capturing specular lighting and turning it into a cube map
rustic willow
i see
halcyon mesa
then the lightmapper re-maps it onto the geometry
So make sure they are "Baked" and not "Realtime"
and hit Generate Lighting again
rustic willow
I believe I did everything - two Reflection Probes, I made them envelop the entire room plus a bit of the walls but not reach the outside - but it still seems to look the same as before even after hitting Generate Lighting
one of two, the other one taking the left portion
and results
halcyon mesa
okay- go to the Environment tab on the Lighting Window
rustic willow
current setup
halcyon mesa
Source: Color and make it black
rustic willow
oh! oh wow that did it
halcyon mesa
Hehe
rustic willow
looks ominous as all heck now haha
just a question though, will the Reflection Probes have issues if I, say, add a Window to this room?
halcyon mesa
No probably not
If you do bust a hole in the wall though make sure to set the outside light to Mixed or Baked and up the indirect intensity if you want more of that light inside the room
I take it it's Directional so it doesn't really have a range
rustic willow
noted! and yes its directional currently
halcyon mesa
If you're gonna use dynamic objects in here and you want indirect lighting on them you can use Light Probes
They are similar to reflection probes but for indirect lighting
rustic willow
i see, and can they overlap?
halcyon mesa
yes!
rustic willow
gotcha! so if i say, add a bookshelf to the room that can be pushed, i should wrap the bookshelf in a Light Probe? and i'm guessing to make the light probe a child of that bookshelf so that it'll move alongside it
halcyon mesa
You should add light probes around the room independently
and then set the bookshelf to receive GI from the probes in its mesh renderer component
rustic willow
ah i see!
halcyon mesa
and if you want dynamic shadows make the light Mixed instead of baked
I was working with the scene I was seeing
so I didn't know you'd have moving objects etc
Best video I know on all this stuff is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlxuvvYZO4Q
It's mostly about HDRP workflows but it explains a lot of the concepts we discussed
rustic willow
Thank you so much! I should be okay moving forward now