Unity 5 - Standard Shader Washed Out

All non-transparent materials using the standard shader are really washed out. If I set the diffuse color to the main color in my texture it looks better provided that most of the texture is the same color. Doing this with a complex texture however give poor results.

Is this a bug or am I missing a setting in the standard shader?

* Very washed out


This is better. should be a little lighter, but not as much as above.

 

Try to change 'Default Reflection' under the 'Scene Render Setting" from 'Skybox' to 'Custom' and check if it's still the same.

 

Excellent - that (and setting the ambient to .5) fixed it. Thanks!!! So what exactly does that do?

 

You can play with 'Ambient Mode' and 'Amount' too.

AFAIK from testing the beta today, your object is affected by the environment lighting from your skybox and it additionally has a reflection with an input from skybox too.

 

Thanks again. After playing around with that I can see where it would be useful - especially with the SB+Eq+Grnd.

That being said (to any Unity people reading this), I think the default should be to have that turned off. It's going to mess up a lot of people and it's really only something you would want turned on if you were going to go in and tweak the settings anyway... That or have the default Skybox actually illuminated models correctly to begin with.