While the defaulst point/spotlight actors in UE4 do an incredible job of lighting a level I wanted to create a stronger realistic feel with them. As such I have decided to use IES light profiles for my lighting set ups. IES profiles simulate a light source behind various layers of glass much like light bulbs…
A staple feature of my work with offline renderes was finding the right HDRI map for the right model. An HDRI map provides lightning that that has been captured from a real world setting and as such can give extremely complex lighting features at a fraction of the computing cost of recreating them in engine.…
Given the fact that a large number of the surface in the final project will be glossy and will have to accurately reflect their surroundings – a lot of research went into the methods that UE4 uses to create cubemaps and their shortcomings and also developing methods to overcome these. UE4 uses 2 main methods…
Hi everyone as a part of my final project I have had to do a ton of UE4 research and after a month of digging around various systems, manually editing render settings and writing custom shaders I have now created this new category where I can share some of my world changing findings with you!…
Apart for taking ages to come up with a title for this segment that rhymes it seems that throughout my time messing about with 3D/2D stuff I may have picked up a few things from trial and error that others might have missed! So to save everyone the pain and agony that I went though…
For this week’s project we were to focus on light and shadow. As such we were given the opportunity to relight an old model in a new way preferably trying to imitate the work of a known film director or animator. For this project I decided to try and light a model that I made…
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