How do you do your lights?

Unity Engine
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Hi,

I’m often having trouble getting light to behave the way I want. I usually want to light every room separately, or have only a few areas really dark. The point lights bleed through walls if they don’t have shadows, but it doesn’t seem viable to have several shadowcasting lights in a scene. Spotlights would work if they were orthographic. Directional lights (with cookies) would work if they had a falloff. I’d like light to behave sort of like they did in the 2.5D days, where each polygon had a defined light value. More exactly, I want to be able to define light room by room, and have this show up on the character as well. How do you get your lights set up?

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Have you seen the beast lightmapper ?

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I was going to say that you didn’t understand the question, Zomby138, but you’re right. :slight_smile: Beast creates shadows for you even in Free. So lights won’t bleed through your geometry if you bake your lights.

Example:

Top one is before I bake. The bottom one is after I bake.

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Use different layers for different rooms and have the lights only affect the appropriate layer (plus the character layer).

–Eric