Darkness#

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hello

[tardy spade]

screenshot

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kinda darker buty not enough

[tardy spade]

first how many directional lights u have

Click Window - > Lighting -> Light Explorer

click Lights

show all lights

also Shadow Type needs to be enabled

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how

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2

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screenshot

you only need 1

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you only need 1

and enable shadows

make sure this has Hard/Soft

[slim lark]

it has hard

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?

ok now go in the lighting tab

turn down enviroment reflections

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wheres that

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that good

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you can play around with Ambient Color too and turn that down as well

intensity

turn that down

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ok closer

[slim lark]

closer to what

[tardy spade]

what

it's getting darker dont you see?

[slim lark]

yeah

but like

the entire map is getting darker

[tardy spade]

put the lighting intensity up on the directional light

those dark areas tunnels need you to put post processing to sell the pitch dark effect

you cnt have the whole level be darkness

[slim lark]

put that in simple terms with instructiuons

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how

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read it carefully..

on the directional light

up the intensity of the light

change color from black to a sunny color or w/e

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see now thats a good light but the tunnel is light now aswell

[tardy spade]

use post processing for that zone

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how

[tardy spade]

are you using unity URP or standard

[slim lark]

uh

whichever one this is

[tardy spade]

that would be standard

a bit of a pain to get Post Processing

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.postprocessing@3.0/manual/Quick-start.html

basically this you need to add extra

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i hate unity tuts

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you can make a trigger box collider area for the tunnels with that Volume that has the exposure turned down

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so i need to detach the tunnel?

[tardy spade]

nah

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.

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watch a video how you add the post processing

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where is exposure?

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I told you , you need tto add post processing

its on that

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this?

ok kits added now what

@tardy spade

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follow the instructions how to install it

come back when its done

[slim lark]

they dont explain darkness

its instalkled

[tardy spade]

thats not what i said

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and ive done it all

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so when its working and the ppfx works show me

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english

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first of all it shouldnt be Global if its only a trigger area

[slim lark]

fixed

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learn how the post processing volume works and how it affects different areas

[slim lark]

cant u just tell me 😦

[tardy spade]

im already telling you more than i should, i dont gott precious time like you do

its not that difficult and there are plenty of resources on this

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Color Grading

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Exposure

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??

do you not know what Exposure is ?

turn it down

[slim lark]

that turns the entire scene dark

[tardy spade]

because you put it on Global mode

needs to be inside a trigger area like I said twice already

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the camera needs to be inside the Trigger Collider to take effect

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but for my movement to work it needs to be inside gorilla rikg

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? do you know there is a difference between scene camera and game camera

[slim lark]

listen im new alr

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yeah well if you jump into things without learning how the editor even works this what happens..

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.

thres only 1 camera

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the one on the player

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yes

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ye

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thats the oinly 1

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move the player

to test the zone

you dont have to press play

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wait i dont get post processing at all

itsd not dark all the time?

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it's a tirgger volume... You only see the difference when you enter the tirgger

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oh

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you can turn on Global on just to configure it then switch it to trigger if you dont want to do that move camera thing

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still dont work

[tardy spade]

works for me so you messed up something

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do u mind if we vc

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I mind, I'm at work

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ok

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if you followed the steps like I said it works

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comprehension issue

didn't I say you can't see the preview unless the player camera is in the trigger?

i literally sent you a Gif

OR

Turn on Global first

to preview

it

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A. That is the scene camera

[slim lark]

ohhh

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B. if it doesn't even make it dark with Global ticked on then you did not Set PP correctly

look at my screenshot

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can i make another camera cvus i dont wanna move my rig

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Box collider should be trigger, but you get the point

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you dont need to move the camera to test it

just turn on Global

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global is on

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then if the effect isn't visible your Post Processing aint working

[slim lark]

aw

[tardy spade]

it's not rocket science

follow the simple steps I linked you

look the screenshot

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will it show in the scene camera?

if itds on global

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ur entire scene is dark

[tardy spade]

The entire scene gets dark but only when inside the trigger..

[slim lark]

oh

[tardy spade]

thats what post process does, it doesnt change any lighting

it just makes it appear darker

Volume goes inside a Post-Processing Layer

[slim lark]

What is pp

[tardy spade]

then on Camera you add a PP layer

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the same thing we've been talking about this whole time...

Post Processing..

my patience running thin

have you never heard of abbreviation ?

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i realise

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don't ask trivial questions then and pay attention

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this good?

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Layer on the camera yes

now show the object with the Global Volume

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no camera doesn't need to be in post process layer

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which layer is this in

this needs to be inside Post Processing layer you made

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so main czamera shouldnt have pp layer?

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right

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okk

done

now what

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which layer is Global Volume

the trigger u made with volume on it

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this?

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find this button

in scene view

make it blue and check in Post Processing

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bruh it gone, along with all my other object editors

gone

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you probably closed it out

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how i mopen it/

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Presets -> Default works as wel

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thre we go

its blue

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how to i check in pp

[tardy spade]

it's not blue and it's not the same icon

[tardy spade]

if you checked in Post Processing in the dropdown it should be working then
¯_(ツ)_/¯

[slim lark]

ok it working!

but kinda makes it transparent/

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wdym transparent

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what is transparent ?

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the tunnel/

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its just the grid you're seeing

it's not transparent

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ok

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gizmos

did you make box collider a trigger ?

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]so just checking. that darkness effect will only happen inside the green zone/

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if you uncheck global, yes

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yep

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isGlobal means the whole scene anywhere

unchecked means it is Local to the Collider area

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so it shouldnt

ok ok

[tardy spade]

right..

Global is for if you want to add other post processing to your player that isn't related to a certain area

like a HIT fx

or other stuff like Bloom for lights

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ok

ty

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🫡

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imma build the game and test

i will return if it dpes not worki

[tardy spade]

it should

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cant test it yet