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Directional lighting

Directional lighting - Unity Tutorial

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Directional lighting

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- [Instructor] Lighting is one of the most pleasing aspects of working in Unity or any 3D program, as it really starts to bring our scene together. Let's explore, together, what are the lighting options we have while populating our scene. Let's start with a directional light as we have one in the scene. If you click, into your hierarchy, the Directional Light, like so, you'll see that we have a directional light, right here. A directional light is perfect for something like the sun because it is infinite. Therefore, you can place it anywhere in the scene and it will have the same effect. If we move our directional sun, or directional light, you see that there's no impact to the scene. However, if you change its rotation or the direction of where the rays are, it will have an impact. For example, if I go into the transforms and I start moving the y-axes or the x-axes, and so on and so forth, you see that the sun is…

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