koobas.hobune.stream
Skybox lighting not working
Hi.
I'm using Unity 5. Everything was going normally but randomly upon opening the project yesterday, the shadows became extremely dark (near black). I realized it's because the skybox is not creating any reflections (IE there is no bounced light to soften the shadows) and even if I change the skybox, the lighting does not change in the scene.
If I instead use a the setting "gradient" in lighting in place of skybox, I can get the feeling similar to what it was before, but no settings on skybox actually change anything (IE changing intensity from .5 to 1 does nothing.)
Is this an error in Unity 5 or did I do something wrong?
This is most likely caused by the realtime rendering of the lightmaps. Unity5 uses them for example emmisive materials.
Check if there's a blue bar in the bottom right corner of unity and check to see if the material the shadow is falling upon is set as static for lighting. If it wasn't lighting will be rebuilt instantly.
If it's not automatically building, check the Lighting window and see if realtime GI is enabled. If you've got a slow processor you might want to change the CPU usage to high for it to speed up.
Hope this helps!
It happens sometimes and you just have to wait for unity to render light, shadows and skybox.
