LIGHT BAKING in Unity (URP Version)

🎮 Master Unity's Light baking in the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) with this Comprehensive Guide! Learn how to set up baked lighting, optimize lightmap settings, and create stunning scenes. 🕹️

📝 About This Video:
In this tutorial, we take you on a step-by-step journey through the intricacies of setting up baked lighting in Unity. Starting with the basics of placing light sources and using emissive materials, we delve into the importance of baked lighting for realistic and optimized game environments. We cover essential topics like lightmapping setup, UV issues, and advanced settings to give you a complete understanding of Unity's light baking features. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this guide offers valuable insights to elevate your Unity lighting skills.

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⏰ Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
01:30 Placing Light Sources
02:30 Emissive Materials
03:03 The Importance of Baked Lighting
03:35 Conditions for Baking
03:46 Static Objects in Lighting
03:58 Lightmapping Setup
04:12 Resolving Lightmap UV Issues
04:40 Lightmapping Settings Explained
05:07 Baking Process
05:24 Direct Samples
05:49 Indirect Samples
06:35 Environmental Samples
06:47 Lightmap Resolution
07:04 Lightmap Filtering
07:51 Ambient Occlusion
08:02 Lightmap Size
08:24 Advanced Lightmap Settings
08:37 Lightmap Compression
08:55 Lightmap Scaling
09:45 Final Baking Settings
09:49 Post-Processing
09:58 Final Bake & Outro

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[BergerBrush]

Bro this video is mad good. I understand lighting better in 10minutes than my teacher taught me in a month lolw.

[killian]

You got some nice explainations, keep going your tutorials they're good

[Soundy]

This is really well presented & information as hell! Love it! More PLEASE!

[RobLang]

Wonderful video! Very helpful, well presented and no waffle. Sub'd.

[robertmalzan]

Is there anything you can't play? AWESOME!

[shashankrajpoot]

HI, Can you please explain the light layers/light linking OR Rendering layers in URP 14 and above.
Thanks

[Omega_RPvbkg]

nice vid but when I try to set the point light to baked mixed and baked are grayed out? can you help me out a bit.

[randommonk]

yo. im on vr. and in game it dosent show any baked data. i do not have anything in sun source. could that be the problem?. or is it the camera that lets u see in game.

[nwotyzarc]

When I use Shadow Mask Distance mode and use Cascades, how does this affect the baking?