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Working with Lighting in Unity

Project

Foundational

4 Hours35 Mins

(22)

Overview

Live

Groups

Summary

The users will illuminate a scene using each type of real time light (Directional, Point, Spotlight), simulate lighting coming in from windows with Area Lights, and bake the lighting to optimize the scene. Users will explore and modify these lights using the Light Explorer window as well.

Project Objective

Learners will be able to:
Use each of the basic realtime  light types in the scene: Directional, Point, Spotlight 
Optimize their scene with light baking
Design the environments using Area Lights
Use lighting to modify scene moods by modifying intensity and color values.
Make lighting design decisions when brainstorming environment design concepts.
Manage scene lighting using the Light Explorer.
Using lighting settings to modify the number of pixel lights.
Design environment moods using lights.

Materials

IntroToLightingStarterPackages.unitypackage.zip

Language

English

Submission Gallery

bright

fire very bright

Room Lighting

My lighting project from Learn Unity.

Old Dining Room

I implemented the flickering of candle flames and a firelit using C# script: by randomly changing the intensity and slightly shifting the position of the light source. I also added some post-processing effect to emphatize the mood of the scene.

Fireplace & Candle

Exercise in lighting techniques.

Room

A Toasty Evening

gloomy dungeon living room

Lighting Tutorial

My scene has one point light for the candles, one spot light for the fireplace (both with shadows turned on) and a weak directional light in pink for the dusk effect. I also included some things from the video tutorial like blue fog in the background.

Lighting dining room scene

I don't know why the point light does not work, I used realtime baking, the point light was set to realtime as well