Unity 4 to 5 lighting help

When i transformed my project from 4 to 5, lighting actually didn't change to better, but it looks dead now, look at the mecanim tutorial test scene:


My question is, what is the problem here ? Is it broken, or i'm doing something wrong ?

Note that:
-The project actually took time to transform to unity 5
-I did change the material shaders to standard for every mesh
-This didn't happen to terrain, but to meshes only

 

Bumpppp... -.-

 

What look are you going for? Look at Window > Lighting.

 

I want this black stuff to not be that freaking black, it's so unrealistic, i know it's shadows and spots that are hidden from the directional light, but come on it wouldn't be that black.... Actually when i change ambient to color, it does a good effect, BUT i want it to stay ambient skybox, i will probbably need it to be like that for other stuff that i'll make. Thanks for replying

 

How is baking gonna help anoyone in life xD ? (I actually tried it too)

 

Wait whaaat, the baking worked now ... Okay, so now it's shiny as hell, over over and over too much light, what's the bar for changing it ?

 

It seems you have the bounce intensity up WAAY too much... If I were you I'd start with 0 and slowly raise it until you get the desired effects...

 

Alright cool, um, but why does it not change, it doesen't refresh at all... I have to rebuild the bake everytime...

 

Actually it is rebuilding it all over and over again any time i change something a bit... It takes too long and this would be annoying

 

Wow this is taking so much time...

 

Do have the Continuous Baking Box checked? You should be able to adjust any lighting values as much as u want after one bake...

 

Of course with continuous baking on if u move any static object then the entire scene will automatically start baking again...

 

No such thing as "Continuous Baking" here

 

Ahh... Can you tell me exacly what to do in order to make that scene more bright, in realistic and nice looking way

 

Oh and yeah continuous baking was checked yeah, forgot about it, it's all the way down

 

Continuous baking is the thing i was talking about, it's taking too much time to rebake when i change some settings :/

 

Do u have the Precomputed Real-time GI enabled?

 

Nope, should i ?

 

If you want to be able to adjust the bounce intensity and many other values without having to rebake the scene AND have more realistic lighting then yes you should enable it lol

 

Also u will be able to add, delete, and move any light except for area lights without any baking once the lighting is precomputed.

 

I toggled it on, waiting again... I'll let you know what happened

 

Ok... And if you could I'd like to see a screenshot of your lighting window just in case there's another setting that may be needed to be changed to help you get the desired lighting you want.

 

It was still rebaking... But oh well, once i found a nice setting i won't have to rebake again, i just need to know which settings will look nice here, look:

 

Those settings seem OK for lighting, there shouldn't be any more problems from the looks of it...

 

Look how bright that is... That's over too much of brightness..

 

Did you try lowering the bounce intensity in the inspector? It shouldn't rebake everytime you adjust it now.

 

Also try setting the Reflection bounces in the lighting window to 1.

 

I lowered the bounce intensity of the sun, it is changing the spots that were so dark in the first place, but now the floor that was exposed to the sunlight, and that was brighter in the first place (first place - first screenshot all the way up) is now not changing when i lowered the bounce, it's still too bright, i'll try reflection bounces now

 

Try setting the Ambient intensity to 0.6 and the Indirect intensity to 1.

 

Yep, well that's some good lighting there... Thank you man, tons of times. If you do have time to answer on more questions, i have more.

 

Yeah I have time, and you could I'd Like to see a screenshot of what the lighting looks like now

 

Here it is :


Once I edit thoose shaders of all the objects there, add reflections and such, it should be looking pretty good. Actually I had problems with reflections and stuff, that's what i was going to ask, but now i figured out that this lighting actually fixed that reflecting too, so i don't have any more questions. Thank you a lot once more !

 

Your Welcome! And the screenshot you attached looks OK i guess (That's just my opinion, I'm sort of a perfectionist and I always try to achieve the highest amount of graphic quality I can get lol) ... I'm glad your content with your work though

 

Well, what else is there to try out to make it better ? I mean, taking more time to make it better is worth it.

 

Thanks ! I hope you're be there tomorrow too, i'm tired, gotta sleep now.

 

I turned on HDR thing on camera, but where is the gamma thing you said ? And btw I don't see any changes when turning on HDR

 

Wow that actually made it look a lot nicer. Any more advices ? Thank you man

 

I edited the shaders and made metal stuff look metalic, it's nice, but for some reason when i make metalicness bigger, it makes it metalic but also makes the object look darker, why

 

Did u add Reflection Probes?

 

Yep They made that reflections on metal objects look so nice... I will post a screen when i'm done, and then we could add more stuff if there's any on your mind

 

Well it's your project, lol... You can do whatever you want - I was just giving my opinion on what I might do in this scenario...

 

Well i do want to make it look better if i can xD Why not

 

I imported this same map and I found that the crates weren't set to static by default - I mean it's not necessary but if you want the crates to be affected by GI then it would be smart to set them to Static imo... Unless of course you wanted them to be dynamic.,,.

 

And a good way of doing that (making it better) is listening to what you say, so yeah

 

I deleted the crates, they were annoying anyways

 

Hey man, the screenshot will be late.. I'm not gonna be around next like... 6 hours. But after that, i'll continue and then send it.

 

There isn't any time limit or anything on me seeing the screenshot lol - I don't even have to see it so it's not like you will be "late" or anything if you don't send it instantly xD