Lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline

Resources and approaches for lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline.

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Important

The Built-In Render Pipeline is deprecated and will be made obsolete in a future release.

It remains supported, including bug fixes and maintenance, through the full Unity 6.7 LTS lifecycle.

Resources and approaches for lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline.

Page	Description
Per-pixel and per-vertex lights in the Built-In Render Pipeline	Learn about how Unity categorizes Light components so they light objects per-pixel or per-vertex.
Emit light from a GameObject	Make a material emissive so that it emits light across its surface area.
Create cookies	Create a cookie by creating a grayscale texture, importing the texture into Unity, then converting the brightness of the texture to alpha.
Customize how shaders contribute lightmap data	Make shaders compatible with lightmap textures.
Shadows in the Built-In Render Pipeline	Set the resolution of the shadow map a Light component generates.
Configure a GameObject to sample more Light Probes	To make lighting more realistic, use Light Probe Proxy Volumes to configure a GameObject to sample multiple Light Probes.
Blend Reflection Probes	Enable Unity gradually fading between the cubemap textures from different Reflection Probes, as a reflective GameObject passes between them.
Optimize lighting	Avoid Unity using multiple render passes to render GameObjects, or doing too much work to render lighting.
Troubleshooting emissive materials not rendering	Fix issues causing emissive materials to not render as brightly as intended.
Light component Inspector window reference	Explore the properties and settings in the Light component Inspector window to customize settings specific to the Built-In Render Pipeline.

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