So you went through the process of baked lighting and you find that objects in your scene aren’t quite as bright, or maybe they’re too bright or disproportionate! Whatever the case is, baked lighting can be rather time-consuming and just the thought of having to re-bake everything all over again…

Baking is a process that extracts and stores information from the geometry of an object, which can then be used to drive vertex-based processes later on. This is done in order to reduce the number of resources needed for an asset during run time. …

Post-processing is the magic sauce that brings your game to life. It’s a set of processes applied to the final rendered scene only, giving you some extra control over the look of your final output. Multiple post-processing profiles will often be used to achieve the best results. Objective: This article…

The lighting in a game is often one of the most overlooked aspects of the development process. For a lot of developers, this comes down to a lack of knowledge with regard to lighting and how it affects the player’s experience. Lighting can make or break your game, so it’s…

Objective: Learn what Screen Space Reflection is, and a simple way to add them to your project. Screen Space Reflection is a method for calculating reflections by reusing screen space data. It is frequently used to produce subtler reflections, such as those found on damp surfaces. …

Objective: Learn what Cookies are in Unity, what they do, how they work, and how you can apply them. A cookie is a mask you apply to a Light Source in your scene to cast a shadow of a particular form or color, altering the Light’s appearance and intensity. This…

Objective: Learn what Light Layers are, how they work, and a simple way to use them. What are Light Layers? This feature, which is part of the High Definition Render Pipeline(HDRP), allows you to direct the lights in your scene to only illuminate specific Meshes by using Light Layers, which are LayerMasks. To explain…

Objective: A brief look at what volumetric lighting is, and how to add lights with volumetric fog in Unity HDRP. What is Volumetric Lighting Volumetric Lighting may sound complicated, but it’s a lot simpler than you might think. If we break down the concept, the first thing we get is volume, which refers to…

Let’s take a look at a simple way to add post-apocalyptic vibes to your textures! — Objective: Learn what Layered Lit is, and how it works. and how to use it in Unity. What is Layer Lit? Layered Lit is a shader within the Unity High Definition Render Pipeline(HDRP), which enables the use of four (4) layers to stack materials on top of a game object to create organic mixes…