Strength of baked shadows

Unity Engine
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Hi y’all, I have a scene with two directional lights, one casting soft shadows, both set to baked only. I’ve baked my lightmaps “On demand” and it looks fine. Now I’m trying to dial down shadow strength on the one light that casts shadows. But this has no effect - clicking Bake only leads to a reimport. If I change both shadow strength and light intensity, clicking bake does lead to a (relatively brief) recomputation, but again, shadows are at full strength.

So: is shadow strength not yet supported by Enlighten, or should I try to clear and re-bake all lightmaps, or sth else?

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I believe that baked shadows are always full strength. If you want them to be lighter, increase the skylight strength and decrease the directional light strength.

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IC, thanks!

(Wouldnt it be awesome if this were mentioned in the UI or the tooltip? :slight_smile:

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Shadow strength never affected baked lights in 4.x and will not do so in 5.0 either. In beta13, the Shadow Strength will be hidden in the inspector if a light is set to baked, to make this more explicit.

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