Difference between revisions of "Lighting"

Revision as of 14:57, 19 December 2015

All about lighting in games.

Useful lighting critique

(UE4) Asylum Environment - Lighting Setup

Dota 2 Character Texture Guide by Valve Software, from Dota 2 Workshop shows how to use ambient occlusion and point light bakes to create the diffuse texture. File:Dota2CharacterTextureGuide.pdf(3MB pdf backup)

Character Lighting Tutorial - Marmoset by Joe 'EarthQuake' Wilson

BioShock Infinite Lighting by Steve Anichini

Practical Light and Color ($) by Jeremy Vickery - video by a lighting artist at Pixar

Light for Visual Artists: Understanding & Using Light in Art & Design ($) by Richard Yot

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter ($) by James Gurney - lighting from a painter's perspective, lavishly illustrated.

Painting With Light ($) by John Alton - cinematographer's guide to lighting.

Digital Lighting and Rendering ($) by Jeremy Birn - digital artist's guide to lighting.

The Hows and Whys of Level Design - Lighting ($) by Sjoerd 'hourences' De Jong

Understanding Color by Andrew Price - video by a Blender artist, see also the web page version.

LIGHT - a detailed tutorial by Richard Yot

Advanced Lighting Techniques by Amaan Akram

Lighting Basics and You... thread on the Polycount Forum.

Three-Point Lighting for 3D Renderings by Jeremy Birn

PSG Art tutorial by Arne Niklas Jansson

More Information

• Next gen Lighting on the Polycount Forum.
• Category:Rendering
• Category:Shaders
• AmbientOcclusionVertexColor
• Concept_Fundamentals#Painting_Fundamentals
• Glow
• SmoothingGroups
• VertexNormal