Lighting Optimisation Tutorial
LaunchedDec 20169.5y
UpdatedJun 20224yAbandoned?
Unity Technologies
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Package size320.49 MB
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Pros
The asset provides a high-quality, professionally designed demo scene that serves as an excellent educational resource for mastering Unity's lighting systems, including probes, cameras, and real-time GI adjustments. Users appreciate the well-structured scenes and the practical, hands-on approach to learning complex graphics workflows, which significantly accelerates the development of visually impressive environments.
While the educational value is high, the sloppy project structure and fragile dependency management make this a 'download-and-discard' reference tool rather than a production-ready asset.
Cons
The package suffers from poor file organization, cluttering the root Assets folder with numerous loose directories rather than a clean, nested structure. Technical issues are prevalent, including broken tutorial links, frequent download timeouts for large files, and potential dependency conflicts that trigger compilation errors in newer Unity versions, often requiring manual intervention like updating TextMesh Pro or removing legacy packages.
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Description
This is the example project and assets used in the Lighting Optimization (Precomputed Realtime GI) project on Unity Learn.
This Unity project and the learning experience has been designed for Unity 2019.4 LTS or higher.
The project contains the following scenes:
- LightingTutorialOptimal is configured for a production quality lighting result with a minimal precompute time.
- LightingTutorialNonOptimal demonstrates a lot of the common problems we see through our support channels.
- LightingTutorialStart should be used as a starting-point when following along with the online tutorials.
Key features
- Realtime global illumination using Enlighten
- Daytime and nighttime lighting treatments
- Post-processing effects