Question Ambient Lighting

Hello.

Is there a standard way to add ambient light when using HDRP?
I used to be able to change the ambient light to a lighter value, to avoid total darkness in certain areas. But now they have become super dark and there is no option to add ambient light or change it.
I know it is not physically correct, but how would someone go about at least faking it?

Thanks

 

You can add a directional light with shadows turned off to get light from above. You could probably add a few from different directions I guess as well. You can turn "ground tint" on for light from the ground up (but don't put it on too hard or it looks weird). You can add the Indirect Light post processing to bounce light around some more. But I find lighting hard to do well. If any use, I have been collecting notes for myself in a blog post: https://extra-ordinary.tv/2022/09/25/lighting-tricks-in-unity-hdrp-for-cinematic-effect/

But for me, I went to HDRP for more advanced lighting. Things like making sure you get the right Lumens values for lights is important - a single light that is out of the right range can mess up everything else. I also am only doing realtime - there is baking etc that I do not do which behaves a bit differently.

 

That was very useful! Thank you

 

If you are using physically based sky, there's "miscellaneous -> exposure compensation" parameter. You can increase it and decrease directional light intensity, which would make shadows relatively brighter.

 

that's true! Thanks a ton