Low poly lighting

[inland ice]

Hello, Im making a low poly heist game but currently I really dont like how my game is looking, it feels very default unity but idk how to fix it. Anyone have ideas?

[steel ledge]

Try baking your lights and maybe add some probes

add some post processing if you want too

[inland ice]

the lighting is baked and there's light probes in there already

[valid mica]

tbh it doesn't look like baked lighting

are you sure you baked it correctly?

[little osprey]

Make sure objects are marked as static where needed (so they can recieve baked light) and that lights are configured correctly to be mixed or baked only.
If you want realtime shadows do check those settings too (did you turn them off?)

[timid compass]

There's a bunch of steps required for baked GI
Make sure to follow them all

[inland ice]

all the objects have a lightmap baked into them so im guessing I did

[valid mica]

how do you know that? Did you try looking with the lightmap debug mode?

[inland ice]

and each object has one of these

[valid mica]

that's weird, it still doesn't look like baked lighting. Do you use custom shaders on your objects?

[timid compass]

It's up to the shader to support GI, as well as other types of lighting

[inland ice]

i dont believe so

[dark grove]

Add an outline to it. It'll make things pop.

[little osprey]

Show one of these material including the shader name

[inland ice]

this is for the roof

[little osprey]

Looks fine so I presume something weird like a second realtime light with no shadows is in the scene which is butchering the baked light.
Double check all lights!

[inland ice]

there were indeed multiple lights I accidentally duplicated, this is what it looks like now

[little osprey]

Looks much better to me as that matches the baked light a lot more

[valid mica]

yeah looks much better, now you should remove skybox reflections or add reflection probes

[timid compass]

Add probes rather than try to remove reflections in other ways
Baked lightmapping is meant to work in tandem with reflection probes
(as well as light probes for any dynamic ro non-lightmapped meshes)

[inland ice]

i think i have probes already idk if they work though

[timid compass]

Reflection probes or light probes?

[inland ice]

I have both in there I believe

my reflection probe doesnt include most of the scenery for some reason though

[timid compass]

Not all of your scenery is marked as reflection probe static, either or the far clip plane of the reflection probe is shorter than the size of the room (unlikely unless you've changed that property)

[inland ice]

got it working

[timid compass]

There's a lot more sky visible in the probe compared to the room, so looks like not perfectly