LOD Your Lights - Performance Optimization

One of the most popular optimization techniques is LOD, but rarely does anyone talk about LODing their lights. Lighting is one of the most expensive calculations in games today. In this tutorial, learn how you can apply the same concept of LOD to your lights to dramatically reduce the GPU load, boosting performance!

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📚 Resources:

🟠 Light Shadows: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LightShadows.html

🟠 Shadow Resolution: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ShadowResolution.html

🟠 Light Component: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Light.html

🟠 Light LOD on the Asset Store (free, slightly different implementation, update coming soon): https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/video/lightlod-106846?aid=1101l9QvC

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