Emissive material not working despite setting objects to "Static"

When you say that I should close the Realtime Global Illumination, do you mean I should uncheck it in the "Lighting" window?

Unfortunately, this didn't work either. It bakes for a while, but once it's done, it just stays the same. There's no change.

Completely wrong, emission doesn't "Usually handled by the Baked GI". I believe you mixed up Realtime lighting with Realtime GI. Let me try to explain it:

• Realtime Lighting is lighting mode when there is no Indirect Lighting. To use it Realtime Global Illumination and Backed Global Illumination should be unchecked.

• Realtime GI use some precomputation to use indirect lighting, to use it just check corresponding checkbox.

• Backed GI prebake some data (which exactly depend on Lighting mode) but in all 4 modes indirect lighting baked into lightmap (and lightprobes) despite Realtime GI, where realtime lightmap and realtime lightprobes are used.

Emission is indirect light thus it doesn't work in "Realtime Lighting" (not Realtime GI) which have no indirect at all. But all other Lighting modes can interact with emission in it's own ways.

About using Realtime GI and Backed GI together - documentation states that technically they can be used together but it have no sense to do this, because you will have computation and memory overhead for both systems, besides the fact that it is way harder to maintain such scenes.

It seems to be working now, although I'm getting a whole bunch of errors like "Failed executing external process for 'Visibility' job" and "Cancelling DisplayDialog because it was run from a thread that is not the main thread". Technically, it's the same error over and over again. But the emission still works though. I guess maybe I should just ignore the errors?

I think I also figured out why the emission wasn't working last time. I noticed that when I change the color of the walls' material to something lighter (like white), I can see the emission of the sphere's light on the wall. But when I make the color of the wall darker (like blue or black), I can no longer see the emission. So it seems that, for some reason, the emission will only bounce off other objects if their material(s) have a light color. Is it supposed to be this way?

@MatrixTai Hi. Apologies for the late reply. I set the emission strength all the way up to 99. The wall color was entirely black. It still didn't work. It only seems to be working if the wall color is lighter. I also noticed that the emission doesn't bounce of the walls if the metallic-ness of the walls' material is set high. This is not a good thing because I'm currently working on a game where an object should be emitting light over a fully metallic surface.

Hi, @Garrettec I see, thx for correcting my misunderstanding. So, is that mean for indirect light, actually both realtime GI or baked GI can handle it? Also, is that only realtime GI material can receive the emission light from realtime GI material and vice versa? Thx.