ambient light appear darker than it should

How does your shader look? What's your diffuse color?

Flat white diffuse.

Built in Unity shader with white color, when not lit, will be the same as the render setting ambient color.

In the same situation SF shader will appear darker.

Looks like this is related to the silly 0.5/2 issues all over Unity's lighting. In all my tests, the shader got 50% of the ambient color. So an ambient of 100% white contributed to 50% gray in the shader.

Not sure if I should actually do this, as a *2 will add an instruction to all shaders using ambient. Might make it a checkbox

I have a solution.

1. make shader forge great.

2. make lots of cash out of it.

3. get hired by unity.

4. fix their shaders.

:D