Lighting Workflow Suggestions?

Will Faucher

Hi,

So I am in the process of lighting a scene in UE4, and I have a few questions for you lighting experts out there.
Eye Adaptation/Auto-Exposure plays a huge role in the result I'm getting. I was merely wondering if it is best to have a good lighting result before/without using Eye Adaptation at all, or is it best to set up your lights and have Eye Adaptation do the work for you?

Of course, if it looks good, it looks good, but I don't want to start off with any bad habits.

Thanks!

LMP

You should lock the exposure at 0 (no eye adaption/auto-exposure) when you are working so that you can get a true sense of what your lighting is actually doing.

ZacD

LMP wrote: »

You should lock the exposure at 0 (no eye adaption/auto-exposure) when you are working so that you can get a true sense of what your lighting is actually doing.

That kinda depends on the scene, if you are doing a project with indoor and outdoor areas, I'd leave auto exposure on. But if it was exclusively indoor or outside, I would lock it.

Will Faucher

Thanks for the input guys, I appreciate it!