Basics of Lightmapping in Unity 2020.1

[@pontojotape]

definitely the best lightmapping tutorial i've ever seen

[@UGuruz]

Wow, thanks!

[@archcast5550]

It is the only best lightmapping tutorial i have ever seen!

[@thefuzzycat]

@@archcast5550 lol

[@CoffeePot]

Oh my god, not only is this amazing. The amount of detail being absolutely perfect, but you even flipped between two different versions. Amaaazing!! Thank you so much!!

[@UGuruz]

Glad you like it!

[@SimonTysland]

I knew all of this before I started to watch the video. But I just kept on watching, because you explain it in such a nice and easy way. Was a nice refresher.

[@UGuruz]

Awesome, thank you!

[@bunnyvoid]

this came at the right time. i've been doing a lot of lightmapping recently

[@facusandoval4074]

Me too..

[@skellyTM]

@@facusandoval4074 Me too..

[@masterability1385]

I never knew Unity has this complicated Lighting Options.

[@MrTeteX9]

I wasn't knowing whats directional mode does. Now i understand ! Thank you :)

[@UGuruz]

Glad to hear that!

[@Nillerus]

This is one of the most concise, informative, and well presented tutorials, on any subject, I have ever seen.

[@PixelArchitect]

This really helped me improve my graphics. Thanks!

[@UGuruz]

Glad I could help!

[@whiterice6016]

Previously, I was very confused about light baking, since all my bakes were coming out badly. But this video helped me a lot. Thank you so much.

[@UGuruz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MichoSchmidt]

This was something I needed, perfect explained !

[@UGuruz]

Thank you so much..

[@MichoSchmidt]

@@UGuruz I have never been good with lightning, great video!

[@remotedeath3177]

This is the best lightmapping tutorial. So many things that were unclear are clear now. Thanks for making it.

[@UGuruz]

You're very welcome!

[@TictacAperture]

Amazing tutorial, everything is crystal clear. Thanks !

[@UGuruz]

Great to hear!

[@wenham34]

Your tutorial is amazin!!! I was confused by the lightmap for so long, and your clear explanation solved my questions, and saved my dayssss!!!

[@thatboredinternetwanderer140]

i followed brackeys tutorial first and it wasnt working because it was outdated, so i checked your tutorial and it works! thanks!

[@UGuruz]

You are welcome!

[@UnityVista]

Your tutorial and voice is really awesome my headache is gone ❤❤❤

[@infokubarcade4510]

Bc i think the explanation between all the different light modes are a bit confusing, here is a short explanation about the differences. But overall, it's a very good tutorial ! - Realtime : no lightmap, the direct shadows and the bounces are calculated in ... realtime. Consumes alot of GPU - Mixed : mix between baked and realtime : calculate the lights and bounces in the lightmap, but not the direct shadows which stay in realtime. - Baked : as in the tutorial. All the light data are in the lightmap, no more light needed.

[@kirilnedev]

Really nice video... actually the best video about lightmapping for Unity I've seen

[@UGuruz]

Thank you so much.

[@magisoftworks8547]

Very Good Vid! Thanks- I wanted to dig deeper into LightMaps and you were only one that provided every detail - cause - process and effect.

[@UGuruz]

You're welcome!

[@jchx767]

Awesome video, explain all the window is the best way to understand the possible settings. thanks!

[@512Squared]

Such a good explanation of all of the settings. Really appreciate this.

[@marty34534]

The best LM tutorial and you sir are the best presenter of Unity tutorials in general. I feel most others go waay to fast to understand. Well done! +1

[@UGuruz]

Wow, thanks!

[@zurkio6179]

The absolute best Tutorial on Lighting I have ever seen. Man you just saved my butt!

[@UGuruz]

Thanks

[@chiragprajapati4759]

Bro i understand between directional and non Directional thanks and please keep making video for us. I love to watch your video 😍.

[@UGuruz]

Ok. Thanks

[@plotlessplot]

Amazing video! Even though I'm using Bakery to handle lightmapping in Unity, this video helped me understand lightmap settings much better, which allowed me to improve my lightmaps significantly as well as reduce their file size (super important for mobile games). Thank you!

[@UGuruz]

You're welcome!

[@asfandyarfarooqi0166]

Thanks a bunch bro, I've been pondering over those fixed shadows

[@braydon62509]

Incredible Tutorial. Thank you for the no bs guide.

[@neoniikk]

Thank you so much for this lol, I've been needing this video 👍

[@UGuruz]

Glad I could help!

[@xxxplosity]

Great video!!! Love the way you clearly explain and go through everything!

[@UGuruz]

Thanks so much!

[@REOsama]

The only good lightmapping tutorial

[@obalfaqih]

Thanks for the informative and detailed tutorial!

[@UGuruz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gegenton3953]

Good tutorial! Unfortunatly I'm missing interaction between static and dynamic objects. Maybe you can add something like this to your To-Do list ;)? What I mean is: how will a dynamic object interact with a static, light-mapped object. For example: the soldier in your video running through the shadow of the house.

[@joneggelton]

Light Probes.

[@brandonjacksoon]

thank you dude! really interesting!

[@UGuruz]

Glad you liked it!

[@stuartfowler1]

Excellent video, answered lots of questions I had about URP.

[@UGuruz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@yourfeargame9422]

Thank you for your tutorial!

[@jixal]

Fantastic video. Really clearly and logically explained, thanks.

[@UGuruz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@JavierHernandez-xo5nb]

Matte. You save my life. Good tutorial.

[@UGuruz]

Glad I could help!

[@corshmell]

Amazing walk through of the new baker properties. Thank you so much for the video, it helped me figure out a ton about why my stuff was looking not so great in Unity.

[@joshuareeves9985]

Very helpful, thank you for the awesome tutorial!

[@UGuruz]

You're very welcome!

[@juantrillotube]

You have the best videos. Thank you! Can you recommend some videos about 3D modeling interior scenes optimized for mobile/cloud VR?

[@hotsauce7124]

Thank you so much for making this tutorial. I really appreciate this tutorial.

[@UGuruz]

You are so welcome!

[@fkkirk3714]

good tutorial... I really like your explanations and sticking to the topic at hand!

[@UGuruz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@iodinex64]

VERY helpful. Cleared up a lot of lightmapper stuff, thank you!

[@UGuruz]

You're welcome!

[@executeinc9756]

Very useful, thanks!

[@UGuruz]

You're welcome!

[@Travestyalpha]

Thank you. Very clearly explained.

[@UGuruz]

You are welcome!

[@zx-xn1lb]

老哥的舌头磨炼我的英语听力，讲的还是很不错的

[@MathsPlusGames]

Best video ever, why did you stop making videos?

[@RajSeelam]

Best tutorial ever. Thanks

[@UGuruz]

You're welcome!

[@hweeli6228]

this is good for basic URP lighting

[@SebastianGraves]

Fantastic job lad. Cheers.

[@GlaucoLustosa1]

Nice Tutorial, congrats!

[@mattiasfagerlund]

That was an excellent tutorial!!

[@UGuruz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LuRybz]

Day Night Cycle would be interesting

[@golban02]

Your tutorial helped me a lot. :)

[@UGuruz]

Great 👍

[@ookotaoo6518]

What a great video!!!!! My scene was already at 919 setPass calls and got it down to 213 with Baked indirect lighting!!! And using my gpu to bake them was a way better choice. My poor ryzen 5 took 4 hours last night 😥

[@UGuruz]

That is awesome!

[@Dort_Dort]

Wonderful tutorial, clear and concise, thank you!

[@UGuruz]

You're very welcome!

[@thedeveloper2771]

This is really useful! Thank you!

[@UGuruz]

You're very welcome!

[@nicolasportu]

Outstanding! How to lighting a character, the face for example while walking? The are any tutorial on KZbin. Thanks!

[@MEGA_TREE]

Very good toturial

[@SoaringSimulator]

Perfect! Thx u so much. I need to update my Unity 5 big project 500kmx500km and this video was helpful. I'm lost, slower HDRP 2020 or stay with Unity default in 2019 LTS with lots of assets store assets...

[@Novecento]

Best video about lightmapping! Thanks a lot! What's the name of the courtyard model at the beginning of the video and where can I get it?

[@PhilippDominicSiedler]

Great video, thank you for that!

[@UGuruz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@younesbelhit781]

Thank you this video is very helpful

[@UGuruz]

You're welcome

[@lulithagihan7817]

thank you

[@raptorswire7212]

amazing tutorial man! keep it up and thanks a lot!

[@UGuruz]

Glad you liked it!

[@vsquad.studio]

wow, our towers on 0:27 sec...cool!! looking for some tutorials and found that

[@UGuruz]

Yes, btw nice asset.

[@mortysanchez6930]

Any chance you can provide a tutorial for baking and using lightmaps for big scenes interior/exterior? How can i use different lighting setups and environment lighting in the same scene? More advanced stuff and real lifr scenarios pls. The basics are fine but its rarely the time that i bake a single house on a single plane with a single direcrional light source you know what i mean? Great turorial tho, thanks!

[@gilleswalther5964]

Very good explanation, thanks!

[@UGuruz]

You are welcome!

[@dhairyakacha3402]

can you please make tutorial on bakery lightmap plugin?

[@457Deniz457]

I love ur Videos ! Thanks :)

[@UGuruz]

Thanks for watching!

[@Yanus3D]

As always cool video fro Unity Guruz. Best explanation tutorials ever ;-)

[@UGuruz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rkgamesstudio6977]

Best tutorial

[@UGuruz]

Thanks

[@rkgamesstudio6977]

@@UGuruzyour welcome

[@techh4ck212]

Nice video. Keep up the great work!!!

[@UGuruz]

Thanks!

[@dmitriylebedkin1844]

Thanks for a tutorial.

[@UGuruz]

You're welcome!

[@mertyavuzindiedevelopment7751]

DON'T FORGET TO CHANGE COLOR SPACE TO LINEAR IF YOU USE URP. THIS WILL PREVENT YOUR SCENE TO BE TOO LIGHT OR DARK.

[@UGuruz]

Great Tip!

[@RugbugRedfern]

Even if you're not using URP, it improves the lighting a lot in the built-in render pipeline as well.

[@SolidAlloy2]

This saved my scene, thank you! I wondered why props and characters models were overlit, and was googling a solution for several days. Switching to linear fixed the issue. So glad I accidentally found your comment. I wonder why Unity sets it to gamma by default...

[@RugbugRedfern]

@@SolidAlloy2 No clue lol. By now you'd think they would have some nicer quality presets

[@sulwyn8003]

awesome video, thanks for posting!

[@UGuruz]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@VFFAME]

Very useful thanks

[@biki_02]

Tutorial was great understandable but sad part is dude stopped making those.😭

[@yingbowang3068]

Hi,UGuruz, This is the most helpful lightmapping tutorial i've ever seen. finally I find one tutorial I can follow. and no need to guess what's the parameters mean. only I question: You mentioned in this video, Unity can use 2nd UV set to bake? how to do that? I know Unreal can does that, but I searched on forum,still can not find a way to use my own UVset to bake lightmap. Or is that a silly idea? Thank you for this awsome tutorial. very practical

[@UGuruz]

If you create a second UV map for your object in your 3d software like blender,max maya then Unity will automatically choose that 2nd map for light baking. And you will also need to disable the "Generate Light map Uvs' Option in import settings.

[@yingbowang3068]

@@UGuruz Oh I see! Didn't expect such fast answer! seems Unity combine all the objects UV together, I didn't realize it use my 2nd UV already! Thank you for saving my whole day!!!! I am learn the Unity Series tutorials，these are gold mine.If I can follow will buy your tutorials for sure :)

[@natlife4095]

🙏💎Please keeeep keep your amazing videos respect Sir 🙏✨

[@PauloSamurai]

Brilliant! Thanks!

[@UGuruz]

You're welcome!

[@CineShivansh]

Thank you so much, keep up the good work bro. Hearts from New Delhi :)

[@UGuruz]

My pleasure 😊

[@peterhamlin1296]

wow, really good tutorial. I will check you other ones and patrion! Keep up the good work :-)

[@UGuruz]

Thanks

[@ravenillusionstudio]

Thank you 🎉

[@hasibulislamshanto1981]

It helped. Thanks.

[@UGuruz]

You're welcome!

[@sherazAsghar]

thank you so much

[@archcast5550]

Thank you Sir!

[@UGuruz]

You are welcome!

[@alexisbarrette7652]

You are a god. Also, why would you ever use the CPU to bake your lightmaps, if GPU is 10 times faster? What are the advantages of CPU baking over GPU baking?

[@UGuruz]

Because of limited vram of GPU. In bigger scene with lots of geometry and textures the GPU runs out of memory and you have to use CPU for light baking.

[@alexisbarrette7652]

Ah yes, of course, makes sense. Thanks for the reply

[@faustodom8249]

Excellent video thank`s

[@UGuruz]

Thank you too!

[@NegaoGamer990]

Maluco , muito obrigado você me ajudou muito!! tks

[@pequenog1301]

Lately you do not make lighting videos for HDRP? I miss them Cheers

[@AlessandroNardi_DA]

This tutorial is incredible, simple and effective, I have only one question, when i made my lightbacking, it looks fine without materials, but when I apply materials to my objects and redo the lightbaking, seems like the material cover the lightmap, it's really flat and nothing changes with or without lightmap, what's the problem with my case?

[@sealsharp]

The first thing i would check is, if it's a shader issue. Did you try it with the standard PBR shader? Lightmaps only work on LIT shaders that sample that lightmap. A few of the shaders you can buy, especially stylized (toon, anime, etc) don't have that implemented.

[@AlessandroNardi_DA]

@@sealsharp Thank yo for your answer, I'll found the problem, i put the materials on the prefab instead of the single objects. I have another question, what is the set pass calls limit for a mobile game for oculus quest 2 standalone? Or there is some documentation on limitations? Thank you

[@sealsharp]

@@AlessandroNardi_DA The answer isn't that simple. Not passes, not batches, not vertex-count and not any other single thing can be given a number. There's much more happening on the GPU than just drawing whats sent to it. GPUs do have an internal queue of processes and steps and so the limiting factor depends on many different aspects. The Quest 2's own GPU is an Ardeno (or something like that) and like many mobile GPUs, it does tile based rendering which has different performance behavior than desktop GPUs.

[@BorisTheCheater]

THNX buddy!

[@UGuruz]

Welcome

[@jacquesduplessis5010]

Nice video. Thanks.

[@UGuruz]

welcome.

[@republicofhandball8815]

Could you explain simple to me, if I have a static house game object, which is suitable to be baked lighted, and a moving object (a car or a character) which is suitable just for real time lighting, which "light mode" should I use? "Mixed"? But am I sure this way, that the "static house" won't be lighted once again by the "realtime" light source ( I mean that real time component of the mixed mode)?

[@bzmind_]

Great and useful

[@UGuruz]

Thanks

[@djkaalo248]

Good video. Really helped me out. I was wondering if i could adjust the shading in the mobile lighting settings...like make it a little bit more hd

[@UGuruz]

Yes you can!

[@djkaalo248]

@@UGuruz great! thanks.

[@knightoftheblood1841]

Thank you. This tutorial is very usefull. That's why my model look like garbage. It's because the lightning. lol

[@UGuruz]

Glad to hear that!

[@ПавлоК-з9н]

What about light maps and prefabs for procedural created levels?

[@sean8306]

Great tut mate, subd

[@UGuruz]

Welcome!

[@er.tariqalamfarooqi4771]

very nice sir