Night Shader effects Unity - unity3d

What i'm trying to do is, with and augmented reality app with vuforia, i want to obscure the whole scene to give a "night effect"(The real camera texture has to be obscure too).I been trying this for a couple days now.
I searched for it and only found help in night vision effects, wich give me the idea on how to approach this problem.I'm been trying it with a shader linked to the camera.
How can i do a night effect(Just obscure the whole scene, it would be better if i could obscure only desired objects) with a shader?
Any other idea on how to do this would be great too.

An obvious approach would be to use a dark-colored and thick fog. And turn the lights down, of course. Beyond that, your query is a bit vague. But try the fog.

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All Lights disappear when looking in certain directions

We're making VR Scenes in Unity 2019.4.17f1 HDRP and in one of our scenes all our real-time spot lights seem to disappear when looking at certain directions.
Here's a video to show the issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LiDWQW_ui4
I tried my best to search for a solution but I don't know how to fix it.
The number of lights and shadows that are allowed to be on screen are already very high.
All of the spot lights are set to important
there are no flare components on any light or camera.
In every other scene there seems to be no problem with similar lights
The settings are almost identical in every scene so there shouldn't be an issue.
If anyone has any solutions or can suggest things I could try to fix the issue, it would be a great help :)

What approach should I use to create animated backgrounds in Unity?

I'm new to Unity and trying to figure out the best way to create animated backgrounds. To be clear, I'm not asking you to give me an exact solution or instructions, and I would be grateful if you just tell me which direction to look in, and I will figure it out by reading the documentation.
I'm interested in how animated backgrounds are created in 2D Unity (for example, as here: https://youtu.be/OxiGlmV6ByA?t=1075 flying leaves are visible on the background). I only thought of using particles or just creating standard animations in Unity. But, the second way seems too long and complex, and about the particles, I'm not sure how much it affects the performance in a mobile game. Google searches mostly give instructions on how to create parallax backgrounds or moving backgrounds in Unity.
In general, I will be grateful if you tell me which approach is the most optimal for creating an animated background in a mobile 2D game in Unity.
The particles system is well optimized, for what you want to do it will not affects the performance, even on mobile.

How to outline (silhouette) 3D model in URP?

Good weekend everyone, I'm looking for some tutorial/script how to make 3D object outline with original image texture (eg. stick with wood texture). I would like to when the raycast hits the object (I'm able to detect with object is raycast hitted), the object will be outlined/glowed.
I tryed many tutorials on youtube, finding shaders script, etc, but I'm using URP Unity 2020 and some shaders is not working - only pink material, or works different. Emitter material is not good too, because there is no original texture. I'm stuck on this for few days. I'm a newbie in the Unity community.
Thank you very much for your help. :)
Outline shaders are difficult to make. I use this free asset I found in the Unity Asset store for all my games if you are looking for an easy fix.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/quick-outline-115488

Unity Shader Graph - Glow motion of an object with Shader Graph

I'm new to shaders and with the new Shader Graph from Unity I'm trying to experiment and archive some effects that I have in mind for my games.
I want to get something like this:
https://imgur.com/vqy9y3H
I want a glow effect to go arround my object. In my case it's a square neon light, so it's simple I think.
What I have so far, experimenting and unifying different tutorials, effects, etc.:
https://imgur.com/aPW95S0
This is the current Shader Graph, i know its a mess and maybe there are useless nodes, etc.:
https://imgur.com/J3jzGE6
This is the tutorial I think it's the most accurate to what I need:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUlGJS3QpY
Thanks in advance for any tip that help me find the correct path to archive the effect.
EDIT:
To make it clear, the real problem for me is the motion effect. I already setup the glow effect with post-processing and bloom. My problem is how to do the effect arround the object. In my case it's a neon tube, so it's easiest I think, as the effect can be on all the object but from the start of the tube to the end. As the tube is closed, it will start again from the begining almost at the same point. Hope it make it clear.
you can use post processing to get the effect your after, specifically bloom and tone mapping effects.
With post processing applied you just need to increase the color into HDR levels in your shader.
Applying a blur outside of post processing is actually extremely expensive and isn't really recommended unless there is absolutely no other option.

How can I use baked lighting on sprites? / How to light up a large area in 2D?

I'm having trouble figuring out how to light up large area(s) of sprites in Unity 2D. My previous knowledge on Unity's lighting is zero.
I first tried using a large amount of point lights and using the "Sprites/Diffuse" material, but about only five would actually render at a time, so I guess there's a limit on that.
Then I tried putting in an area light. That didn't do anything, so that's when I started doing research about baked lighting on sprites (and baked lighting in general). I found stuff like this but I couldn't get it to work either because it's outdated or because I don't know what I'm doing. Other answers I've come across seem to assume that the reader knows anything about lighting in Unity in the first place which, to be honest, I don't. Unity's documentation website had some information on it, but no tutorials that go into how to set up baked lighting.
I've tried a bunch of different combinations of materials (like using the "Standard" shader for the sprites instead of "Sprites/Diffuse", emission, ect.) and I enabled "Baked Global Illumination" in Lighting>Settings.
If baked lighting isn't possible on sprites (or isn't worth the trouble), what are the alternatives?
Edit: I made sure not to have the lights pointing the wrong direction, and I do realise that Unity2D is just like painting onto a piece of paper in Unity3D. I was able to get point lights to work, but only a few at a time. I don't need to do the entire screen at once, I need to do a large specific area at once.
some tips...
working with sprites your in 2d... when you add a light, switch to 3d mode, and rotate to make sure your light is pointed at your objects, and oriented so as not to be on the same plane, or level with them, as this will cast all the light behind them.
if your trying to light up everything on the screen(in camera) attach an area light to the camera at the cameras position, point it where the camera points, and then in the inspector on the right, you can change its variables. intensity, range, width, height etc.
Emissive Texture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa6kW5HhRd4
For some reason, I never even thought about going into the asset store. I found this for free, and it looks like it will work: Light2D.