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Building Levels in Unity

By : Volodymyr Gerasimov
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Building Levels in Unity

By: Volodymyr Gerasimov

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Levels in Unity
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Dealing with Basic Animations
Index

Light types


Unity has 4 light types that you might already be familiar with and have worked with in different applications. They are Directional, Spot, Point and, Area lights. Like artists keeping different types of pencils for different situations, so should you treat light types as just a brush to brighten up the environment and create the mood with.

Point light

Point light is the most basic light type that you might find yourself relying on most of the time. In a way, a Point light is just a shining dot emitting the light within a specified radius. Point light has a vast amount of use. You can use it to simulate realistic lighting, such as candle light, artificially brighten the area, or use it to light up a pickup, or important objects in the level.

The position of the Point light is very important, but rotation, not so much, since the light is emitting from the same spot in all directions.

Point light is controlled by a singular unique parameter, Range, which controls the area of effect...