I have a exterior scene with buildings with interiors. How am I supposed to get good reflection inside the buidlings when the cube does not roate with the building?
As a workaround maybe the indoor reflection probe could be activated with a trigger when you actually enter the building and deactivated when you leave?
The answer is to not rely on box projection so much, use anchor overrides to make the exterior stuff use another probe and use SSR for contact reflections.
I could not believe my eyes that this did not just work. So a bit angry title yeah. Sorry.
It must be a very common use case that you have exterior with buildings with interior. I mean heck. It doesnt even need to be intior. Stuff in the shade also needs their own probe to look good
No, I’m sorry, I generally only use the manual and read the forums, so I don’t know anything to suggest really.
Read the manual on the mesh renderer (which has “anchor override”), read the manual about the reflection probes and for SSR try the post processing stack : https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/PostProcessing
The concept was you’d have probes that cover large bounds and smaller probes inside that for more local information and in deferred these probes are blended together so with a bit of fiddling you’d generally get something decent.
Unfortunately with forward it doesn’t quite work out like that and also for diagonal or circular indoor structures with thin walls. For edge cases like that have to do fiddling and rule breaking and messing about until it doesn’t look offensive, basically.
That’s my experience of them anyway. Probably best to rely on not having a probe there and using something like SSRR or a custom probe with the least offensive generic look.
My verdict is their implementation “could be better”.
I wouldnt call this a edge case. Any game with both exterior and interior will have this problem.
I’m using the PBR workflow and it looks like shit with the wrong reflection info. Oh well, will need to read up on SSRR, its a competly new term for me
I’m right there with you Anders. I honestly can’t believe it’s been like this for so long.
Every time there’s a new version I look though the release notes for something about rotating reflection probes, or custom volumes of influence. And there’s nothing, ever. It’s been years!
It’s really not an edge case. You run into the problem all the time. The lighting inside a building can be extremely dark, very different from what’s outside.
Its a bit crazy actually. It does not even need to be interiors, it can be a object in the shade. If its just a tad reflective it will need a custom probe that spans the shaded area
Just look at our interiors without a interior probe, it looks like crap
Even the interior wall to the left in this pic shouldnt be affected by the exterior probe