[Help] Lighting Question?

Unity Engine
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Hello All,

I have a couple of questions about the lighting in Unity and hoping that you may be able to help.

I have a fully enclosed space in a small project I am working on. The enclosed space is just using Unity primitives, the problem is that that there is still a fair bit of light in the room! I expected it to be almost black that would allow me to use some sort of point light or some sort of emissive light source.

Is there any way that I can get this space darker?

I also have a tunnel area - I model I made in SketchUp - in the project as well I expected that the tunnel are would get progressively darker as I went further in, I was hoping to use some sort of light in the middle of the tunnel, but apart from the shadows as you enter, the light is completely uniform.

Is there also some way that I can get the space in the tunnel darker as well?

If there is anyone that can help here is a big thankyou in advance!

Regards.

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A screenshot would help. It could be a number of things.

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Sorry about that, I didn’t want to take up to much space! Here are the screenshots:

Open Space:

Enclosed Space:

Tunnel Entrance:

Regards.

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Turning environment lighting all the way down, will make those shadows black, but I doubt that’s what you want.

From the sound of it you need to bake lightmaps so you can have proper lighting, which isn’t what you’re doing now.

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By bake lightmaps do you mean going into the Lighting menu and using the build menu?

If so then these are most of the settings I have been using:

Without changing the screen resolution I couldn’t get all the settings. Would having all the settings help a little more?

Regards.

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You don’t have to change resolution, that’s a scrollable view.

Are your gameobjects set to static?

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Ok, from your reply I gather that all objects/models that I want to be lit correctly have to be set to static! Is that a correct assumption?

Now, if so, I have been getting numerous errors. At first I was getting numerous:

  • Mesh doesn’t have albedo UV’s. Please create them in your modeller.

There were about 40 of them iirc, plus receiving other errors I had no idea to solve. So I started with the above one.

The model was created in SketchUp. So I searched on the problem and read about someone solving that error by adding a UV in Blender. So, I imported the SketchUp “.dae” file into Blender and did as best I could - I hate that program - but now I am getting a whole slew of:

  • Assertion failed on expression: ‘terrainInstanceHashes.find (instances*.instanceID) != terrainInstanceHashes.end ()’*

Eleven of them to be exact and now there is nothing I can find on this or how to rectify it. So, do you have any idea on how to solve this particular problem?
Regards.

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I may have solved this errors. Possibly?!?

Thankyou for trying to help me.