Problem with lightning

[NoradZero]

Hi,

Look like i am unlucky. Is there a reason why it have kind of "boxes" between lights ? I figured out it may be because the tilemap have tiles drawn by chucks because thoses boxes seem on a different chuck (from the TileMap Render Data). Is there a way to fix this ?

Thanks!

[unikronsoftware]

If you dont use deferred rendering there are a fixed number of lights unity renders. I believe this is in the quality settings page somewhere.

[NoradZero]

I can't use Differed Lightning look like.. its an Unity Pro feature only. i have looked in the Quality panel and there nothing about this limit. I tried Pixel Light.. set it to 8.. nothing changed. Any more ideas ?

[unikronsoftware]

It could be vertex lighting there - cant tell from your screenshot. If its vertex lighting that has a limit as well...

[NoradZero]

So basically.. because the tilemap is an object.. it can't receive more than 8 light on it ? how poeple usually get pass this issue ? i can't believe there is no solution.. there could be a kind of workaround ?

[unikronsoftware]

You can roll your own 2d lighting solution, but you'll need render targets for that. But if you had Unity pro you could just use deferred rendering.

If the lights are static you can paint them in manually using vertex colors.

[NoradZero]

I do not have enough knowledge in lightning for that unfortunally :-( And vertex lightning isn't a pretty solution compared to real dynamic lights. Sure it could do the job at some point but it wasn't enought for me.

Anyway i did some tests and i choosen a solution.. i will simply reduce my light spots for now.. so for 4 square of spots i will only use one. For now. My game is aimed for kickstarter.. the prototype was done on another engine but i ported it to Unity in order to have more features such lights. So since i am only doing a prototype i will make few levels with this solution and if the kickstarter go well i will get Unity Pro and improve the levels. As simple as that.

As for deferred lightning.. it would make it possible to have more than 8 light spots ?

Thanks for your help so far! Really appreciated.