Setting up an environment with Procedural Skybox and Directional Light

Besides the traditional six-sidedandCubemap Skyboxes, Unity also features a third type of skybox: the Procedural Skybox. Easy to create and set up, the Procedural Skybox can be used in conjunction with a Directional Light to provide Environment Lighting in your scene. In this recipe, we will learn about the different parameters of the Procedural Skybox:

How to do it...

To set up Environment Lighting using the Procedural Skybox and Directional Light, follow these steps:

1. Create a new Scene inside a Unity project. Observe that a new scene already includes two objects: the Main Camera and a Directional Light.
2. In the scene, create a 3D Plane named Plane-ground; positioned at (0, 0, 0) and scaled to (20, 20, 20).
3. Add some 3D Cubes to your scene, like so:

4. Create a new Material asset file named m_skybox. In the Inspector, change the Shader from Standard to Skybox/Procedural.
5. Open the Lighting window (Window | Rendering | Lighting Settings...