Official Global Illumination Learning Resources

In order to help our users get familiar with our lightmapping tools, I have created a list of learning resources. They come in three flavors: written material, videos, and Unity projects. Content included here comes from official sources, or from our trusted partners.

Written Material
Documentation and Tutorials

• Lighting Overview - Unity Manual
• Setting up the Lighting Pipeline - Unity Manual
• Making believable visuals in Unity - Unity Learn
• Creative Core: Lighting - Unity Learn
• Introduction to Lighting and Rendering - Unity Learn
• Lighting optimization with Precomputed Realtime GI - Unity Learn
• The definitive guide to lighting in the High Definition Render Pipeline - Unity E-book
• Introduction to the Universal Render Pipeline for advanced Unity creators - Unity E-book
  
• Light baked Prefabs & other tips to get 60 fps on low-end phones - Unity how-to article

Unity Blog

• Static Lighting with Light Probes
• Lighting tips & tricks in the ADAM films
  
• Create high-quality light fixtures in Unity

Forum Posts

• Progressive Lightmapper Troubleshooting Guide
  
• Blocky artifacts appear when I bake a scene. How can I fix them?
• [2021.2] New Features in Lighting
• [2020.1] New Feature - Baked Light Cookies
• [2020.1] New Feature - Russian Roulette and Sampling Improvements
• [2020.1] New Feature - Lighting Settings Asset
• [2020.1] New Feature - Auto Pack Margin

Video Presentations
YouTube Channel

• How to build Lightmaps in Unity 2020.1 - Unity Tutorial
• Lighting & rendering tutorial for HDRP - Unite Now 2020
• Harnessing Light with URP and the GPU Lightmapper - Unite Now 2020
• Optimizing and Deploying Real-Time Ray Traced Global Illumination with RTXGI - Unite Copenhagen 2019
• Developing and optimizing a procedural game | The Elder Scrolls Blades - Unite Copenhagen 2019
• Progressive Lightmapper: An Introduction to Lightmapping in Unity - Unite Berlin 2018
• Bake it 'til you make it: An intro to Lightmaps - Unite Europe 2017
• Advanced Global Illumination in Unity 5 - Unite Boston 2015

GDC Talks

• Intel Open Image Denoise in Unity: Open Source Denoising for Lightmaps - GDC 2019
• Make It Shiny: Unity's Progressive Lightmapper and Shader Graph - GDC 2018
  
• Lighting in Unity - GDC 2015

Unity Projects
Asset Store

• Viking Village - Progressive Lightmapper, URP
• Adventure - Sample Game - Progressive Lightmapper, Built-in RP
• Additive Loading Lighting Examples - Progressive Lightmapper & Enlighten Realtime GI, Built-in RP
  
• Shader Calibration Scene - Enlighten Realtime GI, Built-in RP
  
• Corridor Lighting Example - Enlighten Realtime GI, Built-in RP
  
• The Courtyard - Enlighten Realtime GI, Built-in RP
  
• Lighting Optimisation Tutorial - Enlighten Realtime GI, Built-in RP

GitHub Repositories

• Sponza - Progressive Lightmapper, HDRP, URP, Built-in RP
  
• Boat Attack - Progressive Lightmapper, URP
  
• Spaceship Demo - Progressive Lightmapper, HDRP
  
• Fontainebleau Demo - Progressive Lightmapper, HDRP
  
• The Alchemy Lab - Progressive Lightmapper, HDRP
  
• FPS Sample - Progressive Lightmapper, HDRP

Feel free to contribute learning material that you find useful in this thread.

Special thanks to @Kuba for creating the initial list.