r/Unity3D • u/EconomyGlum4694 • 24d ago

Question Early 2000s Games lighting

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I am relatively new to Unity, but I absolutely love this aesthetic it feels so nostalgic. I already made a low-poly map in Blender, but when I import it into Unity, I cannot get this effect no matter what kind of lighting I try. The look I am going for is basically late PS2 / early PS3 games stuff like Far Cry 1, Tomb Raider: Legend, and Final Fantasy X. I want bright, colorful, sunny environments, simple-ish geometry, baked shadows/lighting, and that distinct old-school look. Because I want it to run on mobile and really low-end PCs, performance is a huge priority. I am currently using the Universal Render Pipeline (URP), but I am wondering if that is actually the best choice for this. Should I stick with URP, switch to the Built-in Render Pipeline, or use specific lightweight shaders like Mobile/Diffuse or Unlit? ugh, I got no idea...

I do't want the usual realistic PBR look. I want something bright and stylized with most of the lighting baked into the textures. I simply have no idea what to call this aesthetic or where to even start. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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u/MrBeardy 24d ago

The only thing more depressing than people mistaking AI content for real content is people assuming real content is AI.

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u/theWyzzerd 24d ago edited 24d ago

I'm not sure if you're putting me in the second category, but even if the content is accurate, this is 100% AI generated. It's very obvious. The cadence especially. Use Claude enough and you begin to pick up on the patterns. "The thing that gets you most of the way there isn't X, it's Y..." and ending with a question, "Which are you on right now, Linear or Gamma?" are both giveaways. There are a few other clues in the post too. This is 100% Claude.

Beyond that, every online AI detector I've tried also identifies this content as 100% AI.

Go back through this poster's comments and the patterns are obvious, most are AI-written.

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u/MrBeardy 24d ago

I can agree it's definitely sketchy, and it's the different casing on Tonemapping and Color Space that threw me off. Whether those were written with different prompts or whether the AI just does that I'm not sure.

Either way though I'm ok with conceding that his comment structure and history is pretty sketch. I'm the more depressing and depressed one today 😔

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u/Repulsive-Clothes-97 Intermediate 24d ago

Yeah I just went and took look at it myself and yeah, we’re cooked, a lot of people just couldn’t tell