Vertex Lighting still supported?

Unity Engine
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I’ve been looking through the docs, and it looks like when it’s mentioned, it’s a legacy feature.
Is vertex lighting still supported? Can anyone point me to any current info or examples?

Thanks

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It’s called Legacy Vertex Lit, but it won’t be removed until Unity 6. You can enable it in Edit > Project Settings > Player. Or you can change it per-camera.

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Thanks Stardog, I’ll see what I can do by enabling it.
You mention that it will be removed in Unity 6…does that mean at that point there won’t be a way to do vert lighting at all?

Or maybe I should clarify what I’m after and see if vert lighting is the right approach anyway.
I’m just curious if it’s possible to store lighting information in the vertices of a model to avoid having to apply lightmaps, where they wouldn’t work that well anyway. Dense meshes with small polys.

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I think when it’s removed you would use Forward rendering with a vertex-lit/unlit shader on your materials. It should give almost the same effect/performance.

You can do vertex painting, but I’ve never done it before. GitHub - slipster216/VertexPaint: Unity 5.3 Vertex Painter