Rim Light ?

Jowens

I have been playing around with Rim Lighting, to get my normals to "pop" more. What is the standard practice to using Rim Light though? I have tried both Diffuse slot Rim light and Emissive slot rim lighting, as I have seen example of both.

Has anyone had good results with either examples? And what typically yields the most realistic/believable look?

warby

well if the fresnel node feeds into the diffuse slot it will only light up if there actually is light in the scene while the emmisive one will always shine regardless of what the lighting conditions are.

so i guess the diffuse one is somewhat more "realistic"

i used to always go with emmisive but now i exclusively use it in diffuse. and when i can afford it i use neither but have a pointlight with my dynamic objects that follows them around and always orients with the cam than you have the most tweak-able control over your highlight outline.

Ace-Angel

http://www.slideshare.net/agebreak/0806-rim-lighting

Go to the page 17+

Jowens

Ah... I see, yea I liked the look of diffuse the best.

Damn nice info on those slide...

Much appreciated.