Are realtime spotlights possible in Unity6 / VR-Core template?

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Hi there, I’ve been building a VR app in Unity 6000.0.31f1, using the “VR Core” Template.

My problem is that I cannot for the life of me get any realtime lighting to work. Baked, mixed, emissive is all working fine, but can I get a simple spotlight. No.

I’ve spent hours watching tutorials and reading various posts but most relate to older versions of Unity. I did the Unity Lighting Tutorial with the outdoor & gallery scenes - I feel like I know most of the major features of lighting in Unity, but I must be missing something.

Today I even started a new VR-Core project from scratch just to see if I could put a simple spotlight into an enclosed room and get an effect - nothing even after killing all environmental and other light sources. The spotlight has zero effect and the room is pitch black.

Any advice is appreciated!

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SOLVED! In this instance, the issue was the URP Config.
Edit > Project Settings > Quality; when I changed to Ultra, the realtime lights worked.

Drilling down, in Assets / Settings / Project Configuration, there are the URP Config files. In the inspector, (URP Config > Lighting, the Additional Lights need to be set to Per Pixel or Per Vertex)

I hope this saves someone else some time. :slight_smile: