Optimize Your Lighting With Light Probes in Unity
How can I get a good visuals in my game? How can I get good lighting?
From those questions I search the answer. And one of the answer is Light Probes. What is Light Probes?
Light Probes provide a way to capture and use information about light that is passing through the empty space in your scene.
Similar to lightmaps, light probes store “baked” information about lighting in your scene. The difference is that while lightmaps store lighting information about light hitting the surfaces in your scene, light probes store information about light passing through empty space in your scene. — Unity Docs
In my case, I have already baked the the lightmap, and here is the looks.
I want my sphere, when moving, the lighting should be auto adjust to the sphere. So here we go! I use of Light Probes. I add Light Probe Group in hierarchy, then setup like this.
After I setup the light probe, my sphere look better when I play it.
When in play mode and you look the scene view the light probe will be like this.
The light probe storing light data for dynamic gameobject like my sphere, when moving, my sphere using the nearest point from the probe.
Conclusion
Maximize the lighting to get better visual look in your game and use the best practice to implement the lighting, like using light probe. You can see the sample in my github repo
