How do I make the Scene completely dark/black?

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This might be a dumb question but I can’t figure it out…even with no lights in the Scene you can still see and make out the objects.

For example, if I were to want to make a scene were everything was pitch black except for the beam from a flashlight or a spotlight shining on an object, how would I accomplish that? (The dark part, not the lighting of the flashlight or spotlight).

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And of course I figure out my on answer immediately after posting…I just changed the Ambient light to Black in the render settings…could have swore I did that before but guess not.

Never mind, nothing to see here :wink:

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O…M…G?!
Why didn’t I think that? Clearly…I knew this. But instead I’ve been trying to think of a tricky way to adjust all material max white/black levls…this does exactly that, all at the same time…and less system intensive.

Sometimes…I swear, i’m a high functioning R-Tard.

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If your scene is lightmaped then ambient light will not work, in such case if you want to darker the scene, just use a guiTexture with black texture filling the entire screen with alpha value to 70% is cheap and fast :wink:

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Umm,my scene isnt black when i change the ambient light to black.How do i remove the lightmaps?

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Set the render settings.

In Unity, navigate to Edit > Render Settings

Enable (tick) the box that says Fog.

Click the Fog Colour box, set the ambient light to 29 on each of the RGB sliders. You can see the change in the scene, pick a colour that is dark but not pitch-black.

Click the Ambient Light Colour box, set the ambient light to 51 on each of the RGB sliders. You can see the change in the scene. Again, pick a colour that is dark but not pitch-black.

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After using fog mine still does nothing

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Okay. I solved that.

Under Lighting > Scene > Environemt
Set your Skybox material to none.
Set your ambient colour to black.

I recommend this setting, as it will let you distinguish your objects from your scene, but your objects will remain entirely unlit, unless you manually light them.

As an alternative, set your skybox material to any unlit colour
Set your unlit to black.

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NOPE