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Fine-tuning ambient occlusion and bounced light

Fine-tuning ambient occlusion and bounced light - Unity Tutorial

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Fine-tuning ambient occlusion and bounced light

Once you've run your first bake in a scene, you'll probably have a list of things you need to fix or would like to fix. Aside from geometry and mapping issues, making sure things are closed up and mapped correctly, and also they're generating light map UVs. You'll probably want to change the quality of that bounced light and the spread of the ambient occlusion in the bake. To change these, we'll choose Window > Light Mapping. I'll go to the bake settings, and we can see on the bottom, my light maps are in there, near and far. I can clear them out once I'm ready to bake, but first I'll adjust the ambient occlusion, and the amount of that bounced light. I'm going to take my bounces down to one, as it's contributing a little more light in the scene than I'd like. I'll also back off that skylight intensity, maybe down to 0.05. So there's a little bit less light from it. There's a bounce boost and bounce intensity, which I can leave alone at the moment. It's very easy to get kind of a big…

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