I followed two tutorials (circa 2019, if anything has changed since then) to get lighting working for my 2D game. Using version 2021.1.4f1
After following their instructions it seemed like for whatever reason only my particle layer was “affected” by lighting, I say effected because they turned pitch black while everything else remained the same. I had initially followed the instructions to go to Edit → Universal Render Pipeline → Upgrade to Universal RP Materials, but that didn’t do anything- after I went through again and selected “Upgrade to 2D Renderer”, all of my sprites (sans for the background) are pitch black but no lighting will change anything.
I have also tried:
- Going to Quality in the project settings and setting Rendering to UniversalRenderPipelineAsset
- Deleting the Initially created UniversalRenderPipelineAsset_Renderer, and adding the new 2D Renderer Data and setting it to the Renderer
- Changing the sprite renderer’s materials- the ones initially turning pitch black were set to Sprites-Lit-Default (though were still unaffected by lights), and the ones that were staying the same were set to Sprites-Default. Changing the ones set to Sprites-Default to Sprite-Lit-Default or SpriteLit (which are apparently two different materials) did not work. They’re currently set to Sprite-Lit-Default. If it’s set to Sprite-Lit-Default they’re fully lit but unaffected by lighting.
- Changing layers all the sprites were on
- Changing z axis of the lights
- Closing and reloading Unity
- Fiddling with settings on the lighting objects
- Disabling my Cinemachine Camera and Main Camera
Settings I have below/attached. I have two lights, one of which is global and one is a point light, both with default settings. Objects are pitch black in both the game and scene tabs.
