Is there any reasons behind why the skylight stationary is more correct lighting than skylight movable (ceiling is too dark and flooring,wall are too bright). what if i want to use the movable skylight for my game with moving objects but the lighting is looks wrong, how to achieve the correct lighting the same from skylight stationary. please advise
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Stationary light will bake shadows on static objects and be dynamic on movable objects. Movable skylight cannot be baked and will only cast dynamic shadows (less realistic)
Assuming your houseâs geometry is set to static. Stationary sky will have itâs lighting baked, movable skylight not. Movable skylight being 100% dynamic, doesnât produce G.I (bounced lighting). Thatâs why the ceiling is pitch black. There is a settings on movable skylight that can ââfakeââ a bounce of lighting tho, itâs to turn off the ââlower hemisphere is a solid colorââ option :
In that scene the skylight is set to movable but I lowered the intensity quite a lot.
Hi Hearthlessphil thank you for the quick reply. âmovable skylight 100% dynamic doesnât produce GIâ . Is there any solution to achieve the correct lighting like GI using movable skylight? or i need to add fake fill light and general light?
Depends on what kind of scene you want to make. Do you have a couple objects that are movable or everything need to be movable? Because a stationary skylight could work well for a baked environment with some movable objects, like a character for example. Or is it because you donât want to bake anything because you donât want to have to deal with lightmaps?
heartlessphil it works on uncheck âlower hemisphere is solid colorâ and lower the intensity, but after i Build it turns to wrong lighting again.
after Build
Probably because your hdri lower part is pretty dark already⌠Try with another hdri (like the default one from epic, courtyard iirc) just to see. Usually I use a plain grey hdri map.
