Getting Started
Getting Started
Samples & Examples
Core Concepts & Glossary
Unity Package Types
Spaces & Space Templates
Custom Avatars
Custom Avatar Animations
Avatar Attachments
Custom Prefab Objects
Components
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Quests and Rewards
Drivable Vehicles
Economy
Economy Overview
Monetization
Items
Consumable Items
Rewarding Items
World Currency
Selling Items
Scripting
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Guidelines
Supported Features and Limitations
Performance Guidelines
Lighting
Publishing to Spatial
Finding Published Packages
Support
FAQs
Help and Community
Release Notes
Asset Import Settings
FAQs
General
How do I download the Spatial Creator Toolkit?
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Follow the steps in the Getting Started Guide, which walks you through everything you need to know!
Can I sell spaces I make with the Creator Toolkit?
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At this time there isn’t a mechanism within Spatial to directly sell your Toolkit-built spaces to others. Stay tuned for more on this, however, in 2023!
How do I transfer a Toolkit package template to someone else?
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- Have the person you want to transfer the template to Create a Space using any free Spatial template.
- Enter that space, and have them either:
- Make you a Host, or
- Temporarily set the Share permissions to “Anyone with the Link…..Can Edit”
- Go into Environment Settings > Change Environment > Packages > Choose your Toolkit Package template.
I’ve built an environment using the Toolkit, and would like to publish it so that others can visit the space. How can I do that?
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- First: Apply to be a Spatial Creator Toolkit Publisher. Apply Here.
- Wait until you have received an email notifying you have been approved before proceeding.
- Follow the Publishing to Spatial steps to load your scene to a public Spatial space.
My object isn’t receiving lightmapped shadows. How do I fix this?
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Here’s all the individual settings you need to get an object to be lightmap-able:
- You’ll need to mark the object as Static:
- The mesh of the object will need a second set of UVs. In the model import setting, you can let Unity generate these UVs for you. “Manual” margin method is usually more space efficient.
- The light that is casting baked shadows needs to either be set to “Mixed” or “Baked” mode
Once you have all of these settings, re-bake your lightmaps.
My environment has no ambient color and the scene looks dark.
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- About This could happen when you publish your space without LightingData. (This doesn’t happen in sandbox.)
- Solution
Press ‘
Generate Lighting’ button in Lighting setting. - Detail 1. Window - Rendering - Lighting to open Lighting window. 2. Go to Backed Lightmaps tab. 3. Press ‘Generate Lighting’ button and you’ll see LightingData is generated and assigned to the scene.
Lighting and Rendering
My object isn’t receiving lightmapped shadows. How do I fix this?
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Here’s all the individual settings you need to get an object to be lightmap-able:
- You’ll need to mark the object as Static:
- The mesh of the object will need a second set of UVs. In the model import setting, you can let Unity generate these UVs for you. “Manual” margin method is usually more space efficient.
- The light that is casting baked shadows needs to either be set to “Mixed” or “Baked” mode
Once you have all of these settings, re-bake your lightmaps.
My environment has no ambient color and the scene looks dark.
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- About This could happen when you publish your space without LightingData. (This doesn’t happen in sandbox.)
- Solution
Press ‘
Generate Lighting’ button in Lighting setting. - Detail 1. Window - Rendering - Lighting to open Lighting window. 2. Go to Backed Lightmaps tab. 3. Press ‘Generate Lighting’ button and you’ll see LightingData is generated and assigned to the scene.
Skybox(panoramic) has a seamline.
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Disable ‘Generate Mip Maps’ on your texture setting. This happens if your skybox(panoramic) texture has mipmaps.
Terrain isn’t rendered with normal maps on web and sandbox.
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- Problem Terrain has normal maps but Spatial doesn’t render it on web and sandbox.
- Solution
- Do not use MaskMap in your Terrain Layers.
- Use 4 or less Terrain Layers.
- Detail
- WebGL has limited sampler state (16) and some variants of terrain shader use more than it. In this case, Unity fails to compile the variant and uses one of fallbacks.
- This compile fail doesn’t always happen. Some combinations between other graphics features like additional lights or lightmap modes generate different variants of terrain shader and some of it use more than 16 sampler state and fails to compile on web build.
- So as a generic solution, you can leave the MaskMap slot empty, or you’ll need to test whether the terrain appears okay in your scene.
- Also you should use 4 or less Terrain Layers to your Terrain for the same reason. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-TerrainLayer.html#Performance
(Thanks to Shawn Young for reporting this bug and providing screen capture images.)
Lightmap results are unsatisfactory.
Terrain appears Shiny.
The appearance of particles has changed.
Scripts that read textures or meshes no longer function properly.
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- FAQs
- General
- How do I download the Spatial Creator Toolkit?
- Can I sell spaces I make with the Creator Toolkit?
- How do I transfer a Toolkit package template to someone else?
- I’ve built an environment using the Toolkit, and would like to publish it so that others can visit the space. How can I do that?
- My object isn’t receiving lightmapped shadows. How do I fix this?
- My environment has no ambient color and the scene looks dark.
- Lighting and Rendering
- My object isn’t receiving lightmapped shadows. How do I fix this?
- My environment has no ambient color and the scene looks dark.
- Skybox(panoramic) has a seamline.
- Terrain isn’t rendered with normal maps on web and sandbox.
- Lightmap results are unsatisfactory.
- Terrain appears Shiny.
- The appearance of particles has changed.
- Scripts that read textures or meshes no longer function properly.
