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Advice about lighting
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Gotmilk 228 posts21 May 2006Hi there. I need help again. This time i have a car on the night bridge driving around. EVerything is cool but i want that the cars headlights would have light. I baiscly dont know anything about lighting. I tried to put yellow omni lights in the rear lamps of my car model but these light affects the whole scene. I turned multiplier down but it still is ugly.
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g3org3 355 posts21 May 2006I know some people actually model the headlights the way they are in real life with the light facing toward the car and it reflects etc. Also you could use a spot light with a decay on it, maybe a little bit of volumetrics.
Those are the only things that come to mind, I have never really made a car , well I did but that is when i first started and I used omnis with less the desirable results. -
Gotmilk 228 posts21 May 2006Thanks for the tip. I tried some trial and errors with this lighting. I turned up with this.
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21 May 2006hey, i think your picture looks great!
any time i've ever done headlights, i use spotlights, and at night, i'd even use volumetric spotlights.
but i think your pic looks fine! -
21 May 2006I dont know how it is anywhere else, (and maybe even here, coz its been so long since I've driven at night) but when the lights are on, aren't the back lights red?
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Gotmilk 228 posts22 May 2006ok new question about lighting. How the hell do you light entirce scene wich is suppused to be night. I put dark enviroment as a background but hten its doo dark to see anything. And if i put some lights i only want my bridge to be lighted. But my omni lights illuminate entire scene includid sea wich is ugly. How do you make a light and make it illuminate only certain object aka bridge.
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22 May 2006I don't know if you can exclude object from light (i guess you can) ....
But for a night scene, just put a dark blue/grey in the ambient color, and only add lights with attenuation where you need some (headlights, lights on the bridge or along the road, etc.. )
You can also try to desaturate a bit your final render in post-production because humans don't see colors very well in the dark (the best is to make a matte with general luminosity to desaturate only where there is no lights, as in reality, but it's more work lol).. It's a simple but effective tips to get better a night ambience. -
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