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silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 10:10 AM

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I have a pitch black room and I want one spot light in the middle but it isnt showing. Ive tested in other projects and it works because Rendering Layers is Everything but in my main project its set to default and I cant change it to anything else. It says "Rendering Layers are disabled because they have a small GPU performance cost. To enable this setting, go to the active Universal Render Pipeline Asset, and enable Lighting -> Use Rendering Layers."

I cannot find any button saying Use Rendering Layers. I asked multiple AI`s and they couldnt help me either.

ornate mirage Dec 27, 2025, 10:27 AM

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silk owl I have a pitch black room and I want one spot light in the middle but it isnt sh...

It's likely not because of rendering layers, and it doesn't seem like there's a reason to believe it's the cause

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Check that the light is realtime, and that the room's materials are using a lit shader
Could show screenshots of the room, the materials and the light properties

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And if the spot light isn't working, are other types then?

silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 10:36 AM

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ornate mirage And if the spot light isn't working, are other types then?

None of the types is working

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When I created a new URP project it automatically made it everything for rendering layers but when I set that to default the same problems happened

ornate mirage Dec 27, 2025, 10:39 AM

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silk owl None of the types is working

Not even directional light?

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Oh, your scene window is in debug mode

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It's only visualizing baked light

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Click the rightmost orb, next to the bug

silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 10:42 AM

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Sorry yes directional light does work but I dont want that in my game

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Ive done the thing you said but it still doesnt work

silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 10:47 AM

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ornate mirage Click the rightmost orb, next to the bug

It works with 3D URP template but doesnt with VR template.

ornate mirage Dec 27, 2025, 10:50 AM

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silk owl Ive done the thing you said but it still doesnt work

Done what exactly?
Directional light should not show up if you're still in debug mode
All lights should show up if you're not, but only if they're close enough to objects

silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 10:50 AM

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Im not in debug mode anymore.

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Directional light shows up but everything else doesn`t. Ive tried increasing intensity and range alot but they dont show up. I think it might be cause rendering layers is disabled cause it works fine when its set to everything on other projects but I just cant set it to everything on the VR project..

ornate mirage Dec 27, 2025, 10:53 AM

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Rendering layers can only be used to exclude lights
It's a random detail to fixate on

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If it's a VR template, chances are it disables additional realtime lights entirely, by default

silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 10:54 AM

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Directional realtime lights work

ornate mirage Dec 27, 2025, 10:54 AM

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Find your active URP asset to check

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By default they are in a "Settings" folder in your project

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But Project Settings>Quality has references to them per quality level, so you can find the currently active one

silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 10:56 AM

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Yes, I found the active URP asset

ornate mirage Dec 27, 2025, 10:57 AM

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"Additional lights" is the relevant setting

silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 10:59 AM

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Theres no Lighting tab

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ornate mirage Dec 27, 2025, 11:01 AM

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Not the right asset and not the right place to look

silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 11:01 AM

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Its working now thanks

ornate mirage Dec 27, 2025, 11:01 AM

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That's the "global settings" asset which is different
Quality tab has the quality levels with a URP asset each

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Meaning you had to enable additional lights?

silk owl Dec 27, 2025, 11:02 AM

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Yes

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On Quality URP Config

ornate mirage Dec 27, 2025, 11:03 AM

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Great ^^
You can also use the Quality tab to swap between URP assets and define which are used by the built application

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