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Created: November 27, 2021

Mission Version 1.0

Lighting

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Beginner

+600 XP

(3685)

Whether you’re exploring the architectural design of your new house, sneaking through a haunted castle in a stealth game, or immersing yourself in the world of a cinematic animation, good lighting takes a real-time experience to the next level. From the basics of illuminating a space to telling evocative stories through your design: lighting will help you get there.
In this mission, you will light an indoor and outdoor space in the Unity Editor and learn about the fundamental principles of lighting for Unity experiences along the way. You’ll finish by applying what you’ve learned to complete your own lighting study.
By the time you complete this learning experience, you’ll be able to:
Implement appropriate lighting in a scene in a manner that will simulate the real-world behavior of light
Decide the appropriate lighting system in order to achieve common outcomes in a Universal Render Pipeline (URP) project
Configure light sources and shadows in order to functionally light a scene
Configure ambient (diffuse environmental) lighting in order to convey mood or enhance realism
Generate a lightmap in order to implement baked lighting in a scene
Configure Light Probes in order to increase the realism of baked lighting
Configure Reflection Probes in order to achieve accurate reflections
Troubleshoot common lighting errors in order to appropriately light a scene
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