Ambient Intensity: Static vs. Dynamic Objects

Hi,

I have a question on ambient intensity. From the docs, it seems that it should affect all objects in the same way. However, objects which are blocked (inside a room) seem to react differently to ambient intensity depending on whether they are marked static or not.



In the picture, you can see four cubes. The left is marked static, the right is not. In an open scene (top), both are affected the same by ambient intensity. In an indoor scene (bottom), the static cube doesn't react to ambient intensity at all, while the dynamic one does.

My question is: Why are the two cubes affected differently? Is there any way to change this behavior to be consistent (in particular, I would like the static cube to be affected by ambient intensity) without disabling Precomputed Realtime GI or Baked GI?

 

Add light probes inside the room.

 

Thanks, that changes the behavior of the dynamic cube to that of the static one. Is there any way to do it the other way around, i.e. have indoor objects be affected by ambient intensity?

 

Do not mark them as lightmap static.

 

Thanks - this removes the object from Precomputed Realtime GI entirely, right? I was hoping to avoid that, as I have other lights as well. Ah, well.