The Power of Light Probes in Unity

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Objective: Learn how to add light probe group in your scene view

Light Probes provide a way to capture and use information about light that is passing through the empty space in your scene

Light probes saves the baked light map data for their location only and when an object that is moving passes through the probe, the light data that probe has stored is applied to the object, giving it the illusion that the moving object is reacting to the fully bake lighting.

To add the light probe in the scene, right click on Hierarchy then Light>Light Probe Group.

You will then get something like this and now you can add more light probes or change the position of the light probes from the inspector.

Click on the Edit Light Probes button and you can see that the four buttons below gets active and now you can add, delete, duplicate or select the probes. For changing the probe position, you can just use it as a gameobject.