The Amazing Power of Light Probes

Objective: Give an idea why Light Probes are nice and how to set them up.

Using Light Probes with dynamic objects will allow less stress on the system. If we used a lot of lights with dynamic objects, the system will have to bake a lot more. But with Light Probes, the light will bounce of them instead and tax the systems a little less.

To set up light probes we will go in the hierarchy and right click and go to Light → Light Probe Group.

Four yellow orbs connected by purple lines will appear in the scene.

Now if we go from the top, we can select a few probes and duplicate them. Will have to make sure Edit Light Probes is enabled.

Let’s try to cover the scene.

To know if it is working correctly, we can drop in an object and if we see the orbs light up, it’s working.

This was a quick guide on how to set up the probes and a little understanding of why they are good to have.