Copy Lighting Settings From Scene To Scene

Am I missing something or is there no way to copy lighting settings between scenes? It seems like you have to set everything manually in each scene in your project?

 

Same question, same problem!
If someone have an answer it would be great, even a negative one!

 

Just wondered the same thing. Perhaps someone has written an editor extension.

 

I found a workaround.

- Ensure your assets are in text serialization mode (Edit -> Project Settings -> Editor -> Asset Serialization = Force Text)
- Save each scene again
- Used a diff program (eg Beyond Compare) to push the RenderSettings block from one scene to another.

I know, it's pretty clunky. If I get around to writing an editor extension, I'll post it here

 

Unless I am missing something here, an easy way to do this is create a game object in scene 1 called "Lights", move your lights to the game object, drag the Lights game object to the Projects folder to make a prefab, open scene 2 and drag the Lights prefab to that scene.

 

Talking about the lighting settings, not the lights.

 

Dupe scene, open duped delete all objects, additively open copy target and move all objects from it to dupe.

 

Yep - i.e. it's a workaround. The point of this thread was why there isn't a button or something to simply save the settings in one scene and then load them in the next. Kind of the way Beast was able to save settings into an XML file.

 

Maybe we could do it ourselves? You can start a github repo for that or ill do it when i have time. Should be simple enough

 

Curious - does this not exist? It's in the doco, but I can't find it in Unity...

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LightmapParameters.html

 

Yeah when you select lightmap quality per object there is dropdown with quality when you make new quality setting it creates this asset

 

Okay - weird. The doco says it's in the Scene tab of the Lighting Panel. Anyway, doesn't really help things either way.

 

Steve, anything update about this issue? I wanna to do the same as u mentioned, if u have news , please let me know.

THX

 

Far as I know, it still can't be done.

 

Have 100 scenes already made that I have to copy lighting settings to/from. Can't believe this is still not possible.

 

Guys you can do it with a crutch, make a podo where you copy current scene settings, serialize it as an asset, load another thing and apply those parameters, it can be made with as editor script in an hour.

 

Okay, so make it and share it with everyone

It's not about whether or not there's a workaround. This is a feature that absolutely should be there out-of-the-box.

Beast had it many versions of Unity ago.

 

I absolutely agree that its unitys fault, half assed architectural decisions with aftermath of neglect for years to follow, and still, its a fast workaround. I wont make it until i need it, which i don't at this point so you guys are on your own.

 

Is this still for real? How is this a thing.

 

I wrote an editor extension to copy Lighting Settings from one scene to another.

It works with Unity 2017 to Unity 2020.1. I didn't test newer versions yet, please let me know whether it works.

Download
https://github.com/pschraut/UnityCopyLightingSettings

 

Nice! but can't install the extension, how can i do it?

thanks!

 

Awesome thanks for sharing!

I feel like the community should create a list of simple pain points like this. A few weeks of unity dev time could shore up most of the editor pain points. Simple things like this or native support for enums with lots of values that need custom editors/filters would go a lot farther to improving quality of life in large products. E.g. try setting script execution order when you have 10000 script files in the game...navigating that list is beyond painful.

 

Lighting settings in form of scriptable objects would be great imo, where every scene has default set just like default material on new mesh renderers, and then you can just swap modules like different presets and share them easily between scenes. If unity team would consider something like this would be great.

 

This took me 30 seconds to hook up and it works like a charm. Thank you!

 

It doesn't work with 2018.2 anymore, The class LightmapEditorSettings is a static one now and can therefore no longer be passed as generic parameter

 

Thanks for the info. I will take a look at this later this weekend and post here if I've added 2018.2 support or if it's not possible anymore.

 

I fixed the issue and it does work with Unity 2018.2.0b9 now. See here for download link.

 

Not sure why Unity doesn't make this a bit easier to manage. In my view, it shouldn't be static, ever. In fact the whole concept of prefabs and scenes are in general holding back performance anyway...

 

What exactly do you mean with "concept of prefabs and scenes are in general holding back performance"?

 

Scenes are a bloated system, and what ECS shows me is that it would be better to work with data itself rather than have anything scene based or static at all.

 

@Peter77 nice one, I will grab it on Monday.

 

@Peter77 Thanks for this - it's one of those, "didn't realize I wanted it, until I needed it", sort of tools. But I like @YoungDeveloper's idea of making an Asset variant as well, and wouldn't mind sharing that when it's done.

 

Awesome, been using this for a while but it broke. So glad someone figured out how to fix it!

 

Have a like.
Works perfectly fine. Thanks a lot.

For those suggesting duplicating and adding objects manually. Sometimes we work in teams on different parallel scenes, some gameplay tests, some lighting look here, post processing there, particle gyms, so on and so forth. Mixing everything on a single scene is sometimes a very painful task... not being able to copy the lighting settings just made it even worse.

Thanks to Peter, our hero of the day.

 

Thanks so much still works great. This should be a unity tool by default.

Great Job!

 

@Petter77 Great job for taking the initiative and making this. Also thanks for keeping it up to date during new versions of unity.

 

@Peter77 You just saved me a chunk of time, thanks a lot!

 

And you win the prize! Thank you so much. Working for me in 2018.2.10f1

 

I used to do it by editing the scene file but they started to open in binary lately. It's a good thing that I found your post. Now I can edit them again

 

Works and saves a lot of time.

Thanks a lot

 

I wonder why this thread was closed:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/war...up-has-inconsistent-lighting-settings.527997/

Unity should not complain about different lighting settings AT ALL if there is not a single game object on the second scene that might be affected by lighting. It seems loading UI in separate scenes is a pretty common practice.

For new games on 2018.3 this might not be an issue if you make all your UI as a root prefab using nesting, but not everybody is willing to upgrade from 2018.2 and for existing projects it's not viable to remake everything from scenes to prefabs just because you can, it may take too much time.

PS: of course Unity should provide some button to copy/paste any scene-specific data, it's wrong that users have to use 3rd-party tools for such basic scene manipulation.

 

Works great in 2018.3.6f1 as well! Thanks.

 

Marry me

 

@Peter77 - nice one!!

Total life saver, well, saved me hours of my life at least Extra bonus points for you!

Do you have ko-fi or similar?

Also your memory profiler thing looks awesome too, not tried it yet.

 

I've improved the tool by adding functionality to paste settings to all open scenes. The new menu item is called "Paste Lighting Settings in open Scenes". If your levels are built with many scenes, this will make it much easier/faster now.

You can find the download link here:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/copy-lighting-settings-from-scene-to-scene.308634/#post-3271269

 

Thank you so much for this very useful tool.

 

And, thank you from me as well, wish I could reference the data externally with a ScriptableObject, so every scene in the game (of a certain category) gets automatically in sync!

Does that copy Occlusion/Pathfinding settings as well? (are they per-scene, right? I'm in doubt now)

This should be available out of the box, via static settings, not with copy/paste data duplication! :/

You click on the Scene asset in the Project tab - and you get a list of static references to scene settings, instead of a blank panel :/

 

Thanks!

I guess that should be do-able. If there is enough interest, I could take a look at it.

Not that I know of.

 

works perfectly
thanks a lot