1 Section Introduction: Lighting

• This section covers lighting both direct and indirect.
• We take a look at different light types.
• How to use baked lighting.
• We create a cave scene for Global Illumination.

2 Light Component » Type 1/2

• Explain light intensity.
• Differentiate light types by feature.
• Infer lighting setting by visual indicators.
• Revision of basic lighting.

3 Light Component » Type 2/2

• Define Culling Mask.
• Light cookies and where to find them.
• Halos effects.
• Configuring and applying lens flares.

4 Light Component » Shadows

• Assess shadow types.
• Enabling shadows for meshes.
• Shadow mapping and resolution quality.
• Shadow acne and “Bias” settings.
• Normal Bias and “Peter Panning”.
• Near Shadow Planes.

5 Global Illumination: What is GI?

• Explain Light Baking.
• Lightmap static objects.
• Revision of direct illumination.
• Introduction to indirect illumination.
• Creating a globally illuminated scene.

6 Global Illumination » Baking

• Explain Light Baking.
• Precomputed Realtime GI vs Baked GI.
• Baked light modes.
• Triggering manual baking.
• Texels per unit, Baked Resolution and Final Gather.

7 Global Illumination: Lightmaps

• Explain Generate Lightmap UV settings.
• Understanding UV unwrapping for lightmaps.
• The process for building a lit scene.

8 Global Illumination: Probes

• Explain lighting settings.
• GI for dynamics objects.
• How to use light probes.
• Layout light probes in a scene.
• Creating reflections on objects.
• Reflection probes vs light probes.

9 Global Illumination » Baked GI

• Explain lighting settings.
• Direction vs Non-directional lightmaps.
• Fog and when to use it.
• Skyboxes for reflection and ambient light.
• Adding custom Skyboxes.