enviornment in unreal ed: need help.

Sage

I have been playing around with unreal ed trying to to make volume lights and searched the net for this but I haven't found a tutorial that describes how to make volume lights in unreal ed. Is this possible? What's a good way of doing this? I'm playing around with the lighting and trying to add fog to this dungeon at the moment.

The basic idea for the scene is that the viewer is inside a cell in a dungeon watching a few people getting slowly roasted over a torture pit. The viewer can see light coming from the outside world. Let me know what you think. The current scene is just learning how to use the editor, the final scene will have custom textures and props.

Dungeon with current lighting. Trying to add shafts of lights coming through hole in the roof and the entrance. There is red light coming from a pit from the hole in the ground. People get put over this hole and are slowly allowed to burn.



Photoshop edit to show the effect I'm trying to make.




Thanks in advance.

Alex

aesir

What you need to do is create a cone with a white diffuse color (or whatever color you want the volume light to be) and an alpha map that makes it start out semi transparent at the top and fade out to nothingness at the bottom.

Steve Schulze

I'm not sure you can actually use volume lights.
You could fake it fairly convincingly with some smart use of alpha planes. and that'd allow you to have some dust motes and things too

EDIT: beaten be Aesir

Sage

Thanks. I'll have to play with the physical volumes to see if I can add a dusty feel to this place with the fog settings. I'll make so some light rays with alphas.

Alex

Jesse Moody

Aesir mentions probably the best way to do it.

You could also use a projection to put the light onto the ground / walls if needed.

commander_keen

Also use some particles to give it more a volumetric effect.

{scumworks}

Be carefull with the color in the env. IMO you have way to many colors going, and it can end up looking more like a christmas tree. If you want the fire to look hot (or have focus), desaturate the surroundings.

quick paintover.

Sage

Thanks for the paint over Scumworks. The light coming in is supposed to be subtle. I made it harsh so people could see it easily. That said I'll try an avoid the Christmas effect when I go and do it.

Alex