Another week, another problem to decipher. This is fun.
This time, no matter how many different tutorials I follow, I cannot get the spotlight to cause a shadow on anything in real-time.
You would think it would be easy but apparently no matter what I tweak and no matter how much I dumb down the complexity of the scene, nothing works. Please help, I’m pulling out my hair as it’s supposedly a simple task (which I have done quite easily in the past) but on a URP-native project nothing works; pre or post-processing.
See pic. You would think the spotlight would cause the cube to cast a shadow? No no no that would be tooooo easy.
The cube is clearly shown as lit-up by the spotlight.
Settings you ask? (Note, all settings are tweaked to the moon and back as I was trying to find any indication that they were impacting on my lack of shadow.)
Baked lightmap? Turned it alllll off (and cleared the data) because I thought that was the cause.
Shadow quality? High and ‘Distance Shadow Mask’.
Mesh renderer? Shadows on.
In fact anywhere there is the term ‘shadows’, I have on.
I legit just don’t know what else Unity wants from me?! It’s another thing I’ll add to my list of things that should, 100%, be the most basic of tasks; yet it has turned into a 2-day rabbit-hole of 1000 Chrome tabs opened trying to resolve said ‘basic’ task.
Unity version 2020.3.5f1, URP project.
(As a fun fact, I changed from a non-URP project to a native, as the URP was bugging out with JSON errors and it took me weeks to figure out the underlying cause).
Please help, it would be greatly appreciated.
