Enlightening Worlds: Illuminating Scenes with the Universal Render Pipeline
Lighting is a complex topic and there are several possible ways to handle it, with each one having its pros and cons. In order to get the best possible quality and performance, you need to know exactly how your renderer handles lighting, and that is exactly what we are going to work on in this chapter. We will discuss how lighting is handled in Unity’s Universal Render Pipeline (URP), as well as how to properly configure it to adapt our scene’s mood with proper lighting effects.
In this chapter, we will examine the following lighting concepts:
- Applying lighting
- Applying shadows
- Optimizing lighting
At the end of the chapter, we will have properly used the different Unity illumination systems like direct lights and lightmapping to reflect a cloudy and rainy night.
