What's the difference between Lightning (TAB) and Directional Light (gameobject)
Although this May sound silly question but I have to ask I'm trying to understand how to control or display the shadow of any character (Object)
My current scene doesn't seem to display any shadow
Answer by Wallyy · Jan 12, 2019 at 10:23 PM
There are 2 ways of lighting the scene as far as I'm aware. Baked and Realtime (you can use both btw).
Baked lighting
Basically is like a lighting texture (light map) on top of already existing object textures that is calculated (created (baked)) only once. It cannot change over time. Only static objects are affected. It's used in situations where the shadows don't need to move, like buildings, windows, etc.
Realtime lighting
Affects non static (your character) and static objects. Shadows and lighting change according to movement, calculations are executed constantly. It looks simpler.
For what you want to achieve, realtime lighting is necessary, as shadows need to update constantly. This link leads to the unity documentation on types of light (realtime). https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Lighting.html
If you want to know more, these links lead to the unity manual of baked and realtime lighting respectively. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LightMode-Baked.html https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LightMode-Realtime.html
Hope that helped, that was my first answer :)
Thank you for the explanation unfortunately this does not resolve my issue why I do not have any shadow on the scene I'm making Android Game as far as I've read real time shadow are more expensive
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