Way to have 2D Sprites lit by Lights?

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Is there any way to have lights actually apply lighting to 2D textures, without losing the transparency of the sprite? I have been using the Particles/AlphaBlended Shader to display my sprites.

I would like to have a dark room, and allow the player to use a light to make his way through, but I can’t seem to make lights work.

If there isn’t a way to make the stock lights work, then does anyone have another suggestion? I have heard of many ways to achieve similar effects, but I am not sure of the best approach considering Unity is built different than Engines I am used to.

Thanks
-Kreed

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Create a material and use Sprite/Diffuse shader. Drag it to your sprite gameObject to apply the material. Voila!

NIce! Exactly what I was searching for!

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Thanks :**

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On the particle renderer material, use a shader that uses lighting.

The material used for the particle renderer.

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Well, same answer basically...on the sprite renderer's material, use a shader that uses lighting.

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Use a shader that has transparency and lighting.

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Any of the Transparent shaders.

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Sprites-default material does not respond to lights , but unity also supports another shader (Diffuse ) for sprites that supports lighting.

You just have to change the shader in Sprite renderer component

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