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Directional lighting

Directional lighting - Unity Tutorial

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Directional lighting

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- [Instructor] Lighting is one of the most pleasing aspects of working in Unity or any 3D program as it really starts to bring up our scene together. So let's explore together, what are the lighting options we have while populating our scene. So let's start with a directional light as we have in our scene. So if you don't have that selected or if you don't see it, if you're still in the house or in the kitchen, double-click on directional light and you're going to get to that light here. So a directional light is perfect for something like the sun, because it is infinite. Therefore, you can place it anywhere in the scene and it will have the same effect. However, if you change its direction or rotations, so lets say, for example, we go to rotation and then our direction, this is how you impact where the sun actually reflects in the scene. But if you touch the z-axis, nothing's going to happen. So if we go back into…

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