Hello
I recently purchased Unity Pro and i was switching some things and the deferred lighting seems to not be working properly.
for example if i don’t use lightmaps, then the whole scene disapears…
It sounds like you are in the middle of a project and under pressure!
However, 24 hours is not a long time to wait when asking a question. It takes time for people to see, read, understand and formulate a reply to any topic. Moreover, many helpful people are put off by insistent demands for answers and bumps. I find that when our community sees many bumps on a thread in a short period of time, they steer clear. Lastly, 24 hours is not a lot of time to try out solutions on your own.
To the problem at hand, I don’t see enough information to know where to begin.
I have done a quick test replicating your plant and spot project and I have no issues. The only thing I can suggest for you re: the plane and spot test is that the transform of the spot is very large:
… and the range of the spot is only 10. Could it be that the plane is too far away to be lit by the spot?
When I did my test, I made sure the plane was at origin (0,0,0) and the spot was only 5 units above it (0,5,0). This way, I was sure the light was reaching the plane.:
Taking this scene, I then checked it in the various lighting paths, lightmapped it, and checked again.
I’m having no issues.
Can you tell us more about your main scene? What is the target platform? What shaders are you using? Have you tried swapping out shaders for default shaders? Have you tried changing target platform? In each of these cases, does the behaviour change?
Thanks for the reply
I know i shoudn’t have bumped this thread so many times and i’m sorry for that.
The problem only happens on my project, if i create a new project then the problem disapears.
I thought it was a setting or something else specifically in my project but i have searched on my own and coudn’t find any fix.
To answser your questions:
target platform : PC
shaders : Unity default shaders and 2 shaders created with strumpy shader editor (those shaders only multiply 2 diffuse textures and 2 normal textures)
Have you tried swapping out shaders for default shaders? : not yet since there’s many objects
Have you tried changing target platform? : not yet, i’ll try that.
So i tried to switch platforms to web player and it’s the same.
I also created and saved a scene with the plane and light, then i exported a package with that scene to another project and in that project everythings normal.
Hmm, I wish I had an answer to this. I have never seen this sort of problem. However on a side note, I would like to say I am a fan of your shooter game, and I am growing impatient for a beta. ;D
So i decreased the size of the light and i found out that it looks like the affected part is the volume of the light (can’t explain xD), here’s the image from different angles:
I built the scene with the point light and plane using deferred lighting and the build works, so i guess the problem is in something that’s affecting only the editor.
EDIT:
Ok this is even more weird xD
i was deleting some things from the project folder that i didn’t need to see if i could fix this and suddently the scene view changed and doesn’t do that problem anymore but it’s even more strange, here an image:
sometimes it stays like the first pic, other times the objects in the scene become pink or black.
EDIT2
Now i discovered in the scene view that if the scene is in perspective mode, then the whole scene disapears but in isometric mode i am able to see the scene but the light isn’t correct.
Should i re-install unity? i updated Unity to 4.01 yesterday, so i don’t know if i really need to re-install it, also the problem is only in my project… when i create a new one, the problem goes away.
I am unable to new your attached images. Can you try hosing them on a site like tinygrab.com, skitch.com or dropbox.com and then linking them as an image, either using the image box in the header of the new post window or by using the tags IMG and /IMG in square brackets?
How big is your project? Would it at all be feasible to put your assets into a new project, just in case something’s messed up in the project?
You could also try quitting Unity, making a backup of your project (just in case!) and deleting your “Library” directory. It will rebuild on restart of the project and see if this fixes things.
So i decided to do what you said, to export the assets to another project and it’s still the same…
So i guess it might be a file that is affecting the editor…
Here is an image of my map:
Do you have any more ideas to fix this problem besides start deleting files from my project folder?
Edit: the scene view should be showing the map, but it disapears.
Edit2:
I made a new scene with the plane and point light and i noticed that in the preview window of the camera, everything’s fine but in the scene view and game view there’s still that bug:
Humph - down to basic troubleshooting, I guess. Do you have Unity installed on another computer? I’d hesitate saying simply reinstall Unity, but if you could test it on another machine, you could rule on whether it’s the application.
No, i don’t have Unity on another machine, i don’t even have another machine…
I don’t think the problem is with the application since the problem is only in my project and not in other projects.
I applied SSAO to the camera to see if it had any effect, here is the result:
Here it is with some simple materials from Angry Bots:
Now, to be fair, I was able to make the surfaces render black, or with holes cut in them, or not render at all, depending upon which AngryBots custom shader I chose.
If it were me, my next step would be to duplicate the project, or take a test version you already have, and then start monkeying with the shaders. Set them all to diffuse. Just take the existing material and crank the shader back to something basic. Does this behave as expected? If so, then you could have a custom shader issue.
