{"id":3908,"date":"2016-10-09T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2016-10-09T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T22:54:09","slug":"p-172-unity-space-environment-part-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-172-unity-space-environment-part-15\/","title":{"rendered":"P-172: Unity: Space Environment: Part 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have managed to get emissive lighting working in Unity, however, it is not dynamic, I am using “baked” lighting. It does work, and it works well, but in the future, I will need to figure out the “light probe” system and use that to get dynamic lights.<\/p>\n

I have been experimenting with emissive lights on various materials, and the effects are quite striking. It does increase the build time of the scene a lot though, since the lights need to be baked every time the geometry changes. I have set the lightmaps to static, not the entire object, but this doesn’t seem to speed up the bake\/build times by that much.<\/p>\n

I can change the colours of the lights in real time, even though the lights are baked, but I have to change the entire emissive material at the same time. So, if I have several objects sharing an emissive texture, (which I do) they will all update at the same time. If I wanted more control, I could just duplicate emissive textures, this wouldn’t be a problem since they are low-resolution.<\/p>\n

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