What can I do to make my world darker?

Hey gang,

I’ve been making a world to sharpen my skills with Udon. I could use some help understanding making a world darker!

I’ve attached a video below that describes the issues I’m facing.

My best attempts still look too bright and it leaves the scene feeling flat and dull.

Below is an image that shows my environmental lighting setup so far:

Two things to note:

  • I use Udon to swap the skybox to a pitch black material during night so that it (hopefully?) doesn’t add lighting to the scene.

  • I’ve set the environment lighting source to gradient, and I’m interpolating between day/night sets of environmental light colors to achieve the transition.

I’m brand new to working with lighting in unity, so I could use any tips to achieve a higher quality darkness.

Bonus points if it’s something that I can toggle with scripts, because swapping lighting during gameplay is important for what I’m going for!

You can also swap reflection map with udon.