No Shadows workaround

Unity Engine
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hi all,

I presume the adreno series of GPUs still has the driver issue where shadows are disabled in Unity ?

I am using some sun shafts in a gaming project for ios, android and win phone. Basic stuff, fixed light (sun) casting lights through some trees. Could I workaround the no shadows limitation by using a lightmap and just bake the light ?

my novice reasoning would say yes, since if I understand correctly, when light gets baked, the texture itself is changed and no lights cast anymore

kind regards
vele.

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That would work nicely. In addition, you’d get much higher performance when compared to using real shadows :).

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Rule of thumb: if you don’t need the lighting in your scene to change dynamically (move or change intensity or color in reaction to the user): bake it! :slight_smile: