Scene in complete darkness in Unity

Question

I want to create a scene in complete Darkeness, which will be iluminated just by the lightnings of a storm. But I am already failing in the first step, I am not able to make the scene completely in darkness, even if I remove all lights in the scene and set background of the camera as black, I still get this:

And Hier my Hierarchy where you can see there are no lights:

What am I missing?

Answer 1

You can try to set the ambient light to black, so it will be all in darkness. You can do this programatically with this line:

RenderSettings.ambientLight = Color.black;

And also, to switch off any light you may have in your scene (just in case)

Light[] ligths = FindObjectsOfType(typeof(Light)) as Light[];
    foreach (Light ligth in ligths) {
        ligth.enabled = false;
}

Take care also of the follwing three things, which may be adding some light into the scene.

• Turn off or delete any light maps.
• Ensure shaders are not using self-illuminating or particle shaders.
• Ensure that "use scene lighting" is turned on in the scene view.

However I think in your case with the ambient light set to Black will be enough. Your scene seems quite simple.