LIGHTING in Unity

In this video we’ll learn a bunch about lighting and use it to light a simple scene using the Progressive Lightmapper.
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[@notunavailable]

Quicktips from 2021; *If you can't find the intensity slider, it's nested in the HDR color palette *If your lights don't auto-bake, go to light-> scene and find the "generate lighting" button, then just wait until the baking is done

[@user-ek4fj7fc5u]

Where is that??

[@notunavailable]

@@user-ek4fj7fc5u where is what?

[@user-ek4fj7fc5u]

@@notunavailable I couldn't find the light menu, I found it under rendering

[@ilhamnarendra770]

THANK YOU FINALLY

[@danbrown1117]

Thank you for the tips!

[@LMHPOLY]

Can't believe that you watched my video tutorial :O Thanks for the credit, I really appreciate that!

[@Brackeys]

Of course man! Keep up the great work :)

[@LMHPOLY]

Thanks, I will! :)

[@PanayiotisCharalambous]

Your original video was great! Watched it a few months back and it helped me a lot! Thank you

[@LelandGreen]

You were recommended by Unity 3D College! So I can believe it. 😇 If you didn't know, it's in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnucXniOqc59bck That's how I found your channel, which is how I found this channel.😊 So great work to all of you! I think everyone should subscribe to everyone else since KZbin has new rules... but I won't get into that here (unless you want me to).

[@shen7338]

LMHPoly hello im making an avatar and i want his surroundings to be pitch black and to be able to reveal him and his particle on the ground can someone help me pls? How i can do this?

[@Jabrils]

lighting & animation are 2 things I want to get better at this year. thanks brackeys.

[@NithinMonni]

OMG JABRIIIIIIIILS

[@nathanfisher4325]

did u get better

[@blushingbutterfly7742]

sadly brackey is no more :(

[@racegroundbreaking82]

and particle system

[@jermProbably]

Fast Forward to today, September 22nd, 2021. Just now discovering Brackeys and these tutorials and saw your (@Jabrils) comment. How are you doing on Lighting and Animation in comparison to three years ago?

[@spoekles]

YES! more lightning please, this is litterally the biggest impact on how your game looks like. You can tell when a game is made in Unity just from developers ignoring it, but if they have worked on properly modifying their settings you start asking yourself if it's a Unity game or an Unreal game.

[@panlis6243]

Simon aggred. Lighting is one of those things that can give your game a unique style and stand up from the crowd

[@DenerWitt]

its just a shame how complicated it is to set up lighting, I dont really know how things are now, but there was a time when unity really needed better documentation on lighting

[@smithytom7405]

nah m8 you can tell its a unity game by its lighting

[@PhotoMakers]

Awesome video! Do you know if it's possible to re-bake the area light/emissive material when in the game by pressing a button? Let's say I move objects and lights around and need to see the results during the game. Is that possible to program by pressing a button to recalculate lights? I'm supposing it's still not possible to use realtime area lights in Unity. Is that right?

[@lethn2929]

This video was so unbelievably helpful, I got frustrated awhile back trying to find information on how to do dark or night scenes and of course Brackey's comes out with an up to date video on it explaining it in a couple of minutes, thanks!

[@MisterMajister]

As a hobbyist game developer, lightning is one of the most obscure things in the entire process (baking, UVs, post processing etc.). This video really helps with the basics to make a scene look good! I will surely get back here many times.

[@natea8126]

This guy makes the best tutorials on KZbin I swear. Just the details he goes into and how simple he does that makes everything so easy to learn.

[@TheOnlyGrooveen]

I would LOVE to see a video on realtime lighting!

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

They're really fun to make but they take AGES to compile after being baked with some properties enabled.

[@DerAua]

Me too!

[@robbyd.r.9297]

Me 3

[@timschel]

Me 372

[@j3ns]

Yes!

[@sykoo]

Awesome video! The new Post Processing Stack truly is magical, and you did an amazing job tweaking the values. Keep it up! :)

[@flashgames1273]

hello sykoooo! (i like your vids better! P.S.: dont tell brackeys :P)

[@milkybiskit9215]

What the heck are u doing in this channel?

[@sykoo]

I've always watched Brackeys' content - is that surprising? :o

[@milkybiskit9215]

No, I think is very nice. You can make a collab with brackeys, that's my dream

[@extreme1679]

Sykoo can you do a tutorial for wall running in Unity?

[@erikcloutier1281]

Holy molly! 95% of the video, I was totally amazed and just wanted to jump straight in Unity to try all this! You make it so easy to understand, thank you for providing those tutorials!

[@JustJunuh]

More lighting videos please! You explained progressive lighting EXTREMELY well in this video, and I would love to see more videos on the topic. Great job as usual!

[@Oversampled]

I really suggest you to make a video on creating lights in 2d world. There are some videos, but not as good as yours :P

[@Blackthornprod]

I believe there is also a cool asset pack you can find in the Unity store that simulates shadows for 2D games :) ! Of course you can also just paint lights in Ps !

[@anupambhattarai8765]

please do a video for this

[@thepyrotechnicpenguin4846]

funny to see you here incorrect musician

[@dsfmdiya7500]

Blackthornprod Why is every indie game developer here!?

[@stupiful]

I watched the scene go from "eh" to "hey that looks good!" slowly over 15 min, then in the last 10 sec it's suddenly AMAZING

[@Barretlight56]

That was the best lighting tutorial for unity ever. I struggled a lot with shadow maps. I hope this will help me a lot. Thanks both to you and LMHPoly!

[@alexandrusepetan2672]

Dude, thank you, thank you, thank you. If it wasn't for your tutorials, I would have given up Unity long ago. You truly care, and take the time.

[@finch0212]

i definitely want a video about realtime lighting!

[@nathanfisher4325]

*makes objects in scene static* Unity: Baking... [ETA 4:22:54] ah!

[@bussin2167]

same

[@igorniemiec8742]

@@bussin2167 hah same

[@bezimienny-jb8gm]

same, i have lost so much motivation on making my game because of this. life's bad man

[@jasonjudge1020]

As someone that is just learning how to light in Unity this video is an amazing tutorial! It also made me super excited to learn more!

[@triangle4studios]

Been lighting for years and never used emissives because I did not know about importing uv lightmaps. Thanks boss. This is why I came here.

[@FreeziK]

it takes 17 hours to bake my light bruh

[@mordorkubson2062]

bruh

[@Twong3lol]

Omfg

[@zowlgd]

It’s cuz you were baking it off of your cpu instead of your gpu lmao. You also can also use enlighten and it takes even shorter.

[@FreeziK]

@@zowlgd oh bruh

[@zowlgd]

@zssllayers1946 yeah sure

[@MaddinUndSo]

... i remember my first reaction to point lights in unity like: "woooooooooow" ... and now i saw this XD Just epic! Nice video as always :D thanks for that one

[@ForfunckleStudios]

I can't believe that you made exactly what was in the thumbnail. The best tutorial on lighting I have ever seen!

[@TheRaretunes]

16 minutes and i've learned more about Unity than hours and hours of other videos. Life is short, choose Brackeys.

[@lucasriello]

A realtime lighting tutorial would be awesome!!

[@zodchiy3d]

Man, you are the god of the explanations! 👍

[@fetusness]

this channel changed my life- already have V1 of a game running thanks to your grenade and explosions video!

[@mikl3e]

I was actually struggeling with lighting today, perfect timing! Great video

[@Illu07]

You can use simple calculations in the inspector. E.q. when your object is on x-position "-2.5" you can add just "+0.1", so you have "-2.5+0.1" if you hit enter, you get the result as the new x-position. Enjoy.

[@guillermostaudt6452]

5:22 when I check "static" nothing changes what can I do?

[@thanhatnguyen8137]

same

[@kietromgamer]

Same

[@_ace55]

Enable "Auto Generate" in Window -> Rendering -> Lighting

[@DurianFruit]

I watch these videos, and never understand anything. But I still watch them because it is so cool watching you hit buttons and making a game seem to just appear!

[@balduran]

Propper lighting makes such a huge difference - and its pretty easy to do with your tutorial. Thanks!

[@philosophpascal]

bloom is the reverb of visuals.

[@josh.8104]

Problem: I can't set the value of emission. The field simply isn't there. Edit* I found it; they nested it in the HDR color picker, the bastards.

[@Thurtwings]

Thanks a lot for noticing it! been looking for it for 10 mins now

[@kboltiz]

I CANT SEE IT I opened the HDR picker, there's only Intensity and Swatches values WELP

[@PlanetOuid]

bruh where

[@ShadowScales]

where

[@louie9490]

Where

[@DayMoniakkEdits]

The bloom hurts my eyes but it's so pretty :o

[@thecubinator2305]

I would love too see more lighting videos. It’s the main thing that’s stopped me dabbling more into 3D graphics for games

[@timmon978]

Amazing video. I love how quickly and concisely you get through so many topics! Full of information, no bullshit.

[@zakihussainqureshi9793]

Yes please a real-time lighting, please :)

[@ahatcho138]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYCUfXtnmpykpbc

[@justgamesin7281]

Real time lighting would be a usefull tuterial!

[@tahasalim9158]

Brackeys, you are truly amazing! Thank you so much for sharing all these incredible videos. You are the reason why Unity is getting a better reputation :)

[@P1nkR]

Very interesting and helpful! I like these fast paced videos showing you the many facets of a subject that provide a lot of points to investigate further by yourself.

[@youssefkassem4895]

Brackeys: we all know that our eyes work by rays of light me: yeah, off-course I totally knew that

[@TheYouCuber]

How to make that room where we can move inside and see through? pls help someone

[@lyricdays3206]

Your tutorial videos are amazing. I decided to go back to creating soft after 16 years. soft soft is so easy to get into, but also offers

[@rikseth9606]

Please create more unity lighting tutorials. They are very helpful. It is the only thing that makes our scene look realistic.

[@shivambankar1079]

its not working here :(

[@technikpro5751]

Very nice Video! In my game I want to let the player get damage, if he enters a "light-Zone"! Means that he can only move in the shadows! How can I do this? 😉 🤔

[@risingdevelopment6635]

The final light effects are just totally awesome. Thanks!

[@jkleo203]

I learned everything from your videos, they're amazing. More lighting videos please . Maybe about making dynamic objects that can emit light and glow.

[@Scafidi616]

I would like to see how to manage the lighting in 2d developments

[@danielyahalom3961]

by default, 2D objects are unlit (not affected by any lighting whatsoever), you can change them to a builtin lit shader, which will allow them to work similarly to 3D lighting, but it generally doesn't look that great.

[@Scroteydada]

In Ori and the Blind Forest, the only character that's a completely 2D rig is Ori. She does nothing but emit light, so shadows aren't a problem. There's no other way around this unless you're gonna be a complete madman and go through every possibility of lighting on every single frame.

[@Winnders]

the colours of the emitters are mixing in my room, the walls are almot a shade of pink now. why is that not happening for brackeys? is it happening for everyone else?

[@burakhandogan4815]

happened to me as well.

[@sadicus]

Thank you Brackey & LMHPoly for showing Problem/solution, very helpful!

[@grimsladeleviathan3958]

I've never seen this man make any other expression than smiling. He's very positive, I like it! 😁

[@soareverix]

If you want to change the intensity, the box has been moved into the color picker menu, below the picker

[@mattcool1046]

Did this work for you? My baking takes 5 minutes and looks like crap at the end.

[@legacycz]

I would love to know more about combining baked and realtime lightning. Do you plan to do some tutorial on that? :)

[@TorutheRedFox]

use the mixed mode on directional lights that's pretty much about it

[@SasukeUchiha723]

The original guy is amazing as well.. When I saw your thumbnail, I was like : "woah, brackeys did what the other guy did in a video I saw few months ago" Then I thought, "Its Brackeys, so there will be something more", and then at the start, he mentions the original guy in the video.. Love Brackeys always..

[@foxy2348]

Great stuff! thank you. I knew almost all of this, but never got a tut that explained that simply. I'll use it better now!

[@ozanarslan5689]

It smells like quality

[@sebastianrijks4959]

When i turn emission on i have no emission at all and i have no value to change (the tiny box behind the emission color where to change the number) and i have no clue whatsoever. i searched the hole internet and it seems like i am the only one with that problem.

[@caioodv]

Hey man, just had the same "problem", the intensity value is now in the color picker, you'll see that there is a scale from -2 to +2 there, try messing with that, there is also a slider and a field that you can use to change the intensity value.

[@randysmith3731]

Just trying to be silly here but if you searched the hole of the internet you probably wouldn't be able to see anything as it's pitch black inside. 😝

[@romanarriaga19]

Great Video! You explain what most options actually do, something hard to find in the official documentation. Great Job, keep it up!

[@jirue]

And this has been added to my bookmarked videos. Thanks! Yes, I would love to hear how to do lighting in real time, if you would please. That's something I've been wanting to learn for a long while, cause it has some interesting potential applications.

[@matthewparksjr3635]

2d games tuts please!

[@knil312]

I don't have color emission value to change it :( , i'm using 2018.1.0f2

[@knil312]

Oh! Solved! Intensity Value is in Color XD

[@oorjitgupta]

You can't ever imagine in how may millions of ways this video helped me

[@MeowsyDancer]

Oh my god. These Unity tuts are the best thing ever. More please!

[@sillysosedge8533]

Could you please make a video on reflections in Unity? That would be gnaaaaarrrrrrleey! ;P

[@mn3only]

Reflections is easy. You can try Reflection Probe or SSR (Screen Space Reflection), which is more realistic but heavy too. KZbin have some good tutorials about both. ;) Sorry about my english (i'm brazilian).

[@VR6NAVYVW]

Real-time lighting!

[@mrmensje1]

YES!!

[@TheJoeSke]

Great video as always. I'd love to see an outdoor scene and how you would light that versus a indoor scene. I'm interested in Dungeon Crawlers and would love to see something on how you'd setup small scenes in both types of environments.

[@salexmatei]

This was very well done. Love how on point you are... this will be great as a reference!

[@chrisnao1760]

Unity rules for beginners: Watch all Brackeys videos and your game dev experience will be 210% easier

[@Sebastian-jt2kq]

Can you please do a video about animations or graphics in Unity? :D

[@kalucky0]

Lighting is part of graphics 😂

[@RKD1010]

He's already done videos on both topics

[@HAWXLEADER]

This depends entirely on your assets and level design...

[@mackenziethomas9668]

Would love to see more videos on lighting. Thanks for the wonderful video!

[@tonyherrick7064]

Thank you Brackeys and Unity! Such a cool system.

[@x2hamburger]

Brackeys: *bakes light in less than 5 secs* Me on my Intel HD: *:(*

[@Androidus3]

Rest in peace JavaScript scripts

[@bananakinggames2101]

Rest in horror. Burn the slow trash!

[@beardninja5029]

About time it died.

[@Icenaryhr]

I just started learning coding with js :( I find it the easiest so far), is there a way to use js in unity or do I have to learn c?

[@hernanbrega]

blogs.unity3d.com/es/2017/08/11/unityscripts-long-ride-off-into-the-sunset/ "Secondly, you might have already noticed: the Unity 2017.2 beta no longer has a ‘Javascript’ (a.k.a UnityScript) option in the Create Assets menu. All we have done at this point is remove the menu item; all the support is still there, and you will still be able to create new UnityScript files outside of Unity (for example, via MonoDevelop). We’re doing this to help ensure that new users do not continue to adopt UnityScript; it would be irresponsible of us to let them invest time in learning it when it is not long for this world." you can still use JS, but i really recommend learning c#

[@Androidus3]

icenaryhr Sadly, I don't think there is any way to still code in js. If you were a beginner, then you will have a harder time with C#, but if you were a bit familiar with unity and made a couple of games, switching to C# would've been one of the next steps as it is so much powerful than js.

[@lee1davis1]

Excellent job brackeyes. You hit all the major points.

[@olgaangelova4851]

Wonderful video! Commenting to let you know that the wish to learn more and watch more about lighting in Unity increased right away after watching this video! Please, share more knowledge on Lighting :)

[@drix8113]

Now we only need unity to improve the Nav mesh

[@christiansaona1589]

Realtime light

[@digisurb__4225]

It would be Amazing if you did a video on realtime lighting aswell, Maybe you could even talk about the pros and cons of each, and when to use what. Great Video as always!

[@BlueFlash215]

I was always so disappointed over my first approaches in unity creating my ownscenes. it's all about the lighting! thank you so much. I was watching that exact same light trailer and thought:" that's not the unity I use..." I'm so trash at unity.... thanks sir for explaining it so well

[@michaeldeleo469]

Silly question: How do I set up a room like that?

[@vikalpgaur8112]

make a cube using probuilder and flip the normals

[@abhijeet800]

i created using planes. and for the monkey, export it from blender as fbx.

[@Patan77xD]

1:07 5th should be absorption with a B not "adsorption" they are two different things.

[@Michael-The-Composer]

I noticed that too!

[@karanshirur4190]

That's because it IS aDsorption

[@stratoskakalis1580]

I would like an in depth tutorial like this on linear/gamma color spacing and forward/deferred rendering paths and their associated settings.I feel like enough people have done tutorials on lighting and the post processing is pretty straight forward but the things I listed are hardly ever changed from default by most devs and they really make a difference to a project.

[@schouffy]

Your videos are so helpful and well crafted. Thanks a ton.

[@oancemr]

Don't know why, but this video did not pop up in my recomended tab or as a notification

[@rattyredemption]

yt is doing that for a lot of videos nowadays. some channels i follow i only get about 1 in 4 notifications. the only current solution for us that i'm aware of is to frequently manually check our fav creators, either on yt or following them on social media.

[@BauernLP]

The video courses from Denis Panjuta are crap, his understanding of the things he teaches are at such a low/basic Level, that even for free a course isn't worth it, the courses from Ben tristem are way better. That is my opinion.

[@christhian0512]

I really love your videos, all I've seen encourage me to pursue my dreams of creating

[@DePistolero]

As easy as it looks and sounds, it takes a tremendous amount of knowledge to get there... Thank you :) For shaving years of time for me :)

[@_mattphill_]

Hey Brackeys, could you make a tutorial making a first person swimming script and with realistic water. like if agree so he might se this

[@user-zw1lt3tw8k]

Make a thirdperson game like if u agree with me

[@Spaceyyeti]

He already did: kzbin.info/aero/PLPV2KyIb3jR4KLGCCAciWQ5qHudKtYeP7

[@slynizz1014]

Matt Sowards is the BEST I want him to create his own games so we can play. Like the ludum dare games.

[@ljrnet9542]

He already did: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKaYn6yod56IldE

[@SubjektDelta]

He already made one

[@antoineperon8983]

Perfect, just i what i want for beginning with indoor light ! BIG THANK YOU !

[@Devsignerz]

YES I LOVE LIGHTINGS IN GAMES! thank for this video

[@abhinavsarangi2347]

Yes, would love to see more lighting tutorials. Thanks

[@bt_martin]

New to Unity and this was extremely informative and helpful! Cheers 👍🏻

[@jaredh4802]

what a coincidence, i literally starting watching LMHPoly a couple days ago, and saw his video on this yesterday! xD

[@jkjayakanth7329]

Really Very good Basic Understanding the Unity Lighting

[@232qwert1]

Awesome tutorials!! Yes, I would like to see a tutorial on RealTime lighting from you(pls cover the Lightmap Parameters). Could you also consider including MixedLights also. I know that lighting is a huge topic and has many things to cover in it. But, it would be great to see you cover the important topics.

[@CollapseDev]

Wow this video was very well explained and the final result is fantastic!

[@esbenjddk]

I would love to see more videos on lighting, and maybe some on how to most effeciently light and entire scene using both baked and realtime lights :D

[@javidan9569]

6:06 Me: OOOOOMMMGGG VERY COOL! Brackeys: But it doesnt look so good