More lighting control

Updated lighting tools offer more ways to shape the look of a scene.

Unity 6.0
LTS · Long-term supportSupported now
Display Adaptive Probe Volumes
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What changed

Unity feature: Adaptive Probe Volumes

Adaptive Probe Volumes place and manage baked lighting probes across a scene. They let moving objects receive indirect lighting from the surrounding environment.

Use it

  1. Use the Adaptive Probe Volumes tab in Window > Rendering > Lighting to configure and bake probe data.
  2. Open Rendering Debugger and display probes to inspect their density and identify invalid samples.

Requirements and limits

  • Adaptive Probe Volumes use baked lighting data and are available in URP and HDRP. They are not a replacement for all real-time lighting.
All Unity 6.0 features

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