Survival Shooter project baked lighting/shadow issue

Hi there,

I've recently started learning Unity3d (using version 5) and currently going through the Survival Shooter tutorial.

The first part of setting up the environment yields some very strange lighting/shadow glitches.
When adding the environment prefab, and then the light-prefab, everything looks as it should at first.
Light and shadows look perfect...until the baking process completes.
Then the scene is rendered with weired shadows all over the scene.

Searching the forums i found one thread referencing the same issue:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/su...al-environment-texture-shader-problem.311681/

And my scene has the exact same problems:

(link is from the post above)
http://gyazo.com/8d4a2164547e1da193c734b92ccaa868

My first thought was that i had messed up a setting somewhere. So i went back and created a brand new
project, following the tutorial video to the letter up and untill adding the environment and lights, with the same
result.

The only thing i could do to "fix" the issue was to change the two directional lights from mixed/backed into
realtime. However this kills the performance of the game.

Being new to Unity im at a loss as to how to fix this. I tried looking at some of the import settings for the models
in the project, such as Generate Lightmap UV's, but does not improve anything that i can see.

My guess is that could have something to do with the project assets being initially made for Unity 4.6 and then
converted to 5 when i import them.

Any ideas as to what im missing/doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

(650578) - Terrain: Standard terrain shaders now correctly support spot light / point light shadows.
p2..... is that your issue fixed?

Also - try replacing the Ambient light type to "Color" or "Gradient", there was an issue with the default ambient doing mangled blackness on terrains.

cheers

 

Thanks for the reply twobob.

However the issue in the link you provided is not the problem im having.

Tried changing the Ambient to Color/Gradient from Skybox as you suggested, but same result.

I was able to find a resolution, although im not sure if this is recommended practice.
I selected all the child-models of the Environment model in the project, and enabled "Generate Lightmap UV's",with
the advanced options at default, and the scene now behaves correctly in this regard.

However, now there is another issue with the scene going darker upon player death, and then the scene going
black in the editor scene/game view once play-test has stopped.
Exactly as described in this post:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/su...al-environment-texture-shader-problem.311681/

Im able to "fix" this using the same method as described in the above post, by disableing/enabling the Environment gameobject.

Here is my system spec ( forgot it in the original post):
Unity version: 5.0.0f4 (64 bit)
OS: Windows 8.1 (64 bit)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4ghz
RAM: 16gig
GPU: Geforce GTX 760 (driver version 347.88)
DX runtime: 11.0

 

Yeah. That second one is the one I was toying with before.

I would install a VERSION of patch2 - alongside your other f4 install - and retest in that.
I suspect some of these are now fixed.

 

Been playing around with this for a bit now, trying to find the exact spot that reproduces the editor scene-view/game-view going dark when playing.

It seems to only happen following a call to Application.LoadLevel(Application.loadedLevel)

 

yup.

That is the exact issue, let me find the thread...

ah yeah - only 11 pages back
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/scenes-become-dark-when-i-switch.310475/

 

Bingo thats the one

I tried some of the stuff in the thread you linked, for player settings.
Changing rendering path from Forward to Legacy Vertex lit works "better", but is still crap.
The scene gets darker overall, but never goes pitch black. However shadows stop working, for both static
and dynamic objects.

Also tried switching on/off some of the other stuff, like Dx11, static batching etc, to no avail.

Ill try creating a brand new project with a box and simple light to see if i can reproduce it.
The problem only seem to appear with baked directional lights, atleast that i can see thus far.

 

cool mate.

go for p2 on a side-bar install and then you can check if your bugs are fixed

 

Tried the project in a version _p2 side install, and the results are the same.
Even has another problem with a linerenderer not behaving as it should, but thats another case.
Im gona drop this for now and just wait until its fixed ( or add a bugreport if needed ).

Thanks for your help twobob, really appreciate it

 

okay mate. p3 should drop pretty soonly now anyway. Maybe they caught it.
You can always over-mangle your side-bar and give it another bash while waiting for the kettle to boil when that time comes. I do all my best testing then

And you are very welcome

 

I am having this exact same issue, everything is fine, until I use the Lights prefab in the project. It appears to be the Moonlight light specifically. As soon as the baking is finished, it gets wonky looking:



This does not occur when I change the lighting baking option to "real time." It appears to occur based on setting it to mixed (default in this project) or baked..

I'm glad I've stumbled across this thread, because I've reinstalled Unity SO many times and have been driving myself insane with the issue. Any help is appreciated!

 

Hi, im also new to unity and following the survival shooter. I also got the exact same problems with lighting/shadows and after compiling getting darker. I hope this problem is fixed soon. Im not gonna be of any use to you guys, but just wanted to share the pain..

grtz from the Netherlands!

 

nevermind. It worked few times and now it doenst anymore. I have no idea what went wrong. Sorry about the false alarm.

 

Mine still does it.... every time the game reloads it switches back and forth between the lights working and the lights not...

 

I haven't tested long enough to tell this works 100% for sure or not.
1. Generate Lightmap UV's as suggested above helped the poorly baked GI.
2. I encountered that the scene would turn pitch black after playing, so turning the Baked GI and Precomputed Realtime GI on and off to retrigger the GI build fixed it only to break again after a play or two. It seems to be behaving nicely after turning off Continuous Baking in the Lighting panel.

 

Hi,
I had the same problem, but I made an important discovery!

In my case, this BUG only happens if the format of the objects are set to ".fbx" or ".max"

Could you tell me if you used any of these formats?

I'm investigating all I can about it.

 

looks like mine are fbx - that's the way it was imported

 

Exactly the same issue for me

UPDATE:
Peteorstrike his answer solved it for me:

If you go to the project's models folder, select each environment and prop mesh and tick Generate Lightmap UV's in the asset's Inpsector Model tab, wait for Unity to create some valid UV's, then let Enlighten rebake, then you shouldn't see these weird errors anymore (hopefully!)​

 

@peteorstrike: Thanks for your help! Same issue for me

 

peteorstrikes solution worked for me.
I just wanna say thanks to all of the people who contribute to these problems and help other people out. You guys are great! thanks again for all the help.
I wish you well.

 

@peteorstrikes solution did the trick, really glad I came across this question, thanks guys!

 

After playtesting part 6 "Player health" of the Survival Shooter tutporial I got this issue with the whole level turing white in the scene view and very dark in game view.

What fixed it for me was prot0's suggestion. I went to Windows-Lighting-Scene-Other settings and pressed Build, then unchecked the auto box. Now it seems to work fine.

 

Hey guys I see you have lighting troubles..
I was working on survival shooter series when I encountered this lighting problem after reloading the level ie (after game over) the lights become suddenly dim and the scene looked like a trash after reloading.
But after a long time I found a solution
Solution : Find menu bar and
Window -> Lighting and there you get a dialog box you will observe auto written write next to the check box on down right, uncheck that checkbox you will also notice a drop down menu ( combobox) on its right on which build is written click on it and you will notice that it will extract all the lighting data on your scene now
When you play your game it works as it is intended. hope this helps to someone.

 

On the Menu tab on the top click on the "Window" > Lightning > scroll down on the Lightning Options and look for "BAKED GI" > Unchecked it. (check the screenshot)

Hope it works for you.