Question HDRP Shadows and Light Layers problem

Hi everyone!
I used Light Layers to split my light on baked (baked Area Light and walls of the box) and realtime (sphere inside the box and Point Light). But now I want my Point Light and sphere to cast shadow on baked walls. So, I used Light Layer of Shadow Map, but it didn't work at all. So, how can I bake some light on the scene and then use realtime light, that affect only dynamic objects, but that allow to cast shadow on static? I want this to optimize my scene and use realtime light only on dynamic objects.
P.S. Light Probes are not allow dynamic objects to cast shadows on other objects.

 

I'm struggling with the same problem. From what I understand, you can't do it the way you want if what you want is a light source that casts shadows of dynamic objects onto static objects without actually illuminating those static objects since they've already received lighting vie lightmaps. Current light layer system allows you to illuminate an object without shadowing, but not the other way around. So you'll probably need some kind of your own shadows that could be decoupled from the lighting.

But maybe I'm missing something here, so it would be great to know what other people think about it.

 

Hi! Thank you for your answer. I tried some variants to resolve this problem, but there is no solution for me. So, now I use mixed light mode. This is not a best solution, but this is better than nothing.

 

Hi! Thank you for answer. I'm using mixed light now. Why I didn't do it at the begginning? Because I had some problems. So, I think I can trick and use point light only.
About high intensity - this is my test project, where I built simple boxes and test some features. I know about Exposure and I use it in my main project. I know good table of lux from unity, where described many useful things. Thank you for your help

 

Not always that great, though. Properly baked lighting can sometimes offer far superior quality to PCSS shadows. More than that, contact shadows don't support any kind of filtering and therefore can't be blurred. So, in practice, you'll get good (but probably costly) looking shadowmaps that come with bias issues which are exacerbated by PCSS and nothing to counter it. Or, if you choose to enable contact shadows you'll get just very weird looking results with non-filtered parts of contact shadows on top of the PCSS blurred ones at the places of contact.

 

Thanks for the answer, but, can you explain why the custom shadow lightlayers are not working as expected? I want to have a certain object in my scene to not receive shadows from a certain light.. so I set up the light source to exclude a certain layer "NoShadows" on its shadow settings. and I set the object to use the same "NoShadow" layer as its only rendering layer. but that object is still receiving shadow from that light.