Realtime Light Problem

[dreamy zephyr]

I have a scene with realtime lights. I baked global illumination without this scene won't light up. 2 same objects that placed in different places won't match up. How can i fix this problem?

I don't use light probes. It breaks the scene.

[hot elm]

Why do you think you must have baked light? Are you using baked light only in that room that changes? It is possible to use baked light scenarios there

[dreamy zephyr]

I have lots of physics objects that you can carry around. I want them interact with lights. I'm baking just to get global illumination running.

[proud frigate]

By "running" you mean what?

[dreamy zephyr]

Without it light doesn't bounce

[proud frigate]

If you want Realtime Global Illumination then you do need light probe groups, whether they "break" the scene or not
Your static meshes should be Contribute GI static, and dynamic objects should not be contributing

[dreamy zephyr]

I have tried that and dynamic objects becomes very dark.

[proud frigate]

You only need Realtime Global Illumination specifically if you want bounce lighting from lights which dynamically more or turn on/off
With Baked Global Illumination you could get bounce lighting, just not from dynamic lights

[proud frigate]

Where are your light probes placed in the scene?

[dreamy zephyr]

Let me setup the scene real quick

This is what i get from Adaptive Probes.

[proud frigate]

Light Probe Groups should be used with Realtime Global Illumination
Adaptive Probe Volumes are a replacement for Light Probe Groups but only with Baked Global Illumination

[dreamy zephyr]

I see, let me try that

It worked for dynamic objects. Not so good on statics

[proud frigate]

In Realtime GI the static objects are not meant to use light probes for their lighting, but lightmaps

It can be unintuitive but Realtime GI is based on pre-baked lightmaps on static geometry
The lightmaps and probes baked with it can then be modified at runtime by light from dynamic light sources

APVs, while a fully static system do support "lighting scenarios" that allow for swapping or blending between two bakes, like with lights turning on and off

[dreamy zephyr]

Looks like it worked. If we could place them like Adaptive probes it would be very useful. Thank you very much!

I've got another problem now ://

[proud frigate]

Can you show the light probe placements at those points?
This can be helped at least to an extent by tweaking where the individual probes are

Meshes will use their origin to interpolate the light between nearest 3 probes based on their relative position

And probes capture light during baking only relative to Contribute GI static meshes
(or in the case of Realtime GI you could think of them as capturing occlusion from potential light but the logic is the same)

The main idea is that you don't place probes inside objects, and don't place them too close to each other if you don't want lighting to change rapidly

[dreamy zephyr]

I put some extra probes there. Seems not enough

[proud frigate]

It looks like some probes are indeed going through the solid objects
That means they'll always be dark and make any object dark that goes near them

Don't place them inside or too close to static geometry, and in this case I'd recommend to use fewer rather than more of them to smooth out the lighting transition between them