From the course: Rendering Engines for Product and Industrial Visualization

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Adjust lights in a scene

Adjust lights in a scene

- [Instructor] The lighting in Unity 3D works almost the same as it works in Unreal Engine. So we have the directional light just like we had the directional light in Unreal Engine, where it's also considered as the sunlight and the main source of the light. And it doesn't matter where you put this icon, as long as the direction is set, the icon does not matter. Now I can move this light by pressing W, and using these axis I can move, and pressing E or choosing the rotate gizmo and then moving around this light and rotating it changes the effect over here. Now one thing I'm going to do really quickly, is go to the Lighting tab, scroll down, and I need to look for the auto-generate because every time when I move around light, it will start generating the light map. So I need to turn this off for now. And I will bake everything once I have my light set up, just like we did in Unreal Engine. So, one way is that rotating the light using this rotation gizmo, or the other way is going into…

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