The Exciting World of 3D Environment & Lighting!

Daniel Ercilio Del Rosario Guerra
2 min readMay 24, 2021

The gameplay can be insane, but the environment is what make people consider playing your game!

In my past articles I’ve been talking about programming tips and gameplay mechanics features, but today I’m gonna talk about something that is as much important as the mechanics. Environment and Lighting!

When we are talking to a close friend, family, teammates we all have that conversation about how a game looks. “Wow, look at those graphics”, yeah we all heard that phrase.

What can people achieve with Unity?

Here’s an 2018 example by Farrukh 3D where he shows us an outstanding forest that he developed just in 4 hours!

And this is just in 2018, today we can achieve better graphics and environment details with the new render pipelines and post-processing stacks.

In the 2020 Unity’s trailer called The Heretic we can see what this powerful engine is capable of.

While dealing with environments and trying to fit lights in our projects, Unity has a bunch of tools that will make our process easier and faster that what we thought!

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