The side of objects that aren't facing light is too dark.

Hi,

I'm new to building in 3D in unity, so I'm going through some basic online tutorials. One thing I'm struggling with is lighting. I can't figure out how to get the side of objects that are not facing the directional light to still show colour. I can lower the intensity of the shadow, but how do I make it so I can still see some of the colour in the object. In the picture below, I'd like to still see some Orange in the posts and some yellow in the ball. Currently the posts are almost completely black. Same with the ball.



settings:

 

The important settings are in the other tab, Lighting. You need to turn up the ambient light (and probably change it from "sky color" to just "color" or "diffuse" or something like that — I don't have the lighting panel in front of me). And then turn up the brightness on that ambient light.

 

In the tutorial, this is the lighting I see and how I'd like the game to look...

 

Thanks for the quick reply! I switch the light source to colour and it looks a little better, but I can't find any of the Ambient settings you suggested changing.

 

I am having the same problem. I don't want to increase the ambient light because I want the light rays to bounce, not to enlighten the dark places with the skybox color (or any color)

 

Shader Occlusion = 0 will also cause dark unlit parts.