Reflection Probes vs. Screen Space Reflections in Unity

Jared Amlin
4 min readNov 12, 2021

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In real life, most all objects have at least a small amount of reflective properties. This makes having reflections in your game scene all the more important when it comes to a real feel and player immersion. In this article, I cover two different ways to get reflections, and when you should use one or the other.

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Jared Amlin

I am an artist and musician, that is currently diving headfirst into game development with C# and Unity3D.