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How to Use Lights and Cookies in Unity to Beautify the Scene (Part 2)

This tech-recipe is a continuation of the previous article How to Use Lights and Cookies in Unity to Beautify the Scene (Part 1). This part will be a complete guide of lights and cookies in unity.

Lights are an important part of a scene. If you want to simulate a haunted scene, you can display a cross cookie reflected on the walls. Or you can put point lights on graves. Area lights can be used to light up disco walls. Even house lighting can be simulated.

In theatre and film, lighting effects have long been used to create an impression of objects that don’t really exist in the set. A prison scene often shows the light coming through the barred window, even though the window and indeed the wall are not really part of the set.

How to Use Unity Lights and Cookies

 

1. POINT LIGHT

Go to gameObject->light->point light

Click on type in the inspector. Pick “point”

2. SPOTLIGHT

Go to gameObject->light->spotlight

Click on type in the inspector. Pick “spot”

3. DIRECTIONAL LIGHT

Go to gameObject->light->directional light

Click on type in the inspector. Pick “directional light”

4. AREA LIGHT

Go to gameObject->light->area light

Click on type in the inspector. Pick area light

What is a cookie:

A cookie is just an ordinary texture but only the alpha/transparency channel is relevant.  You can use any available image editor to create a cookie and save it to your project’s Assets folder. You can always download cookies from the internet.

How to Add a cookie

Step by Step Procedure:

In spotlight hierarchy, click on the cookie.

Select a cookie

Adjust the cookie to cast the reflection

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