Prevent lighting going through objects

So I have a huge planet in my scene. When I fly my ship on the dark side of the planet the light still hits my ship.

How can I prevent this? I have shadows on the planet checked on.

 

Hi.

Is your planet checked as a static gameobject?
How is set your project lighting and the active light of your scene (Sun?)?

 

Hey Myrmidou thanks for the response. I have the planet check as non static and using directional lighting

 

It could be a lot of things. Settings your planet as static does nothing?

Try to change values in your light component, in Window>Lighting & in quality settings, it may change something.

Perhaps "shadow distance" in quality settings? If your scene is at a right scale then your ship should be really far from your planet, so the default shadow distance value should be changed accordingly.

 

Ya setting it to static did nothing at all.

Nah the planet isn't at the right scale. Cause im allowing players to fly around the planet in a reasonable time.
I"ll check out light settings.

 

When I was developing a space game, I noticed that lens flares would seep through planets. Not the same issue - but it was solved by adding a sphere collider! Another idea - make sure your light isn't excluding the ship/planet by its culling mask.

 

Do you have shadows enabled? If they are not enabled, it wont care whats in the way. It'll illuminate everything. Turn them on, and the problem should be fixed.

 

If it is an issue with large scale - I used the floating origin trick and layered cameras in a game I started (but not finished), @Shadowing might be interested... https://gilesey.wordpress.com/?s=spacelife