Hello,
As the title said, does anyone know of a good source of Cookie-compatible textures for Point lights ?
Even the Asset Store has nothing except for Spot lights, but those are easy enough to make yourself …
I’m guessing that any spherical texture would work too, but the only ones I can find are skyboxes, and are not really useful to make fancy/cool/weird lighting effects that way.
… it doesn’t help that searching for Cookies tend to return a good chunk of baking-related assets.
https://docs.unity3d.com/uploads/ExpertGuides/Create_High-Quality_Light_Fixtures_in_Unity.pdf
You can also take a look at IES profile importers in the asset store or elsewhere.
Sadly I’m not aiming for photo-realistic lights sources, this is for fantasy SFX purposes.
Things like this, for example :
(The corresponding package on the asset store only has one afaik, since it’s just for demo purposes)
I tried the method in your documentation (the version that rely only on grabbing Unity’s light-mapper files) and while it does work there is no way to recreate abstract/complex things like the pic above with it.
I’m mostly surprised that no one seem to even be selling packs of those.
In the rare case I use them (honestly, shader based solutions are easier to control and far more robust) I just make them myself. The cookie system is pretty limited, to the point where I put it in the same place as the old built-in projector system in my mind.
