Theres been a pretty serious lighting problem with some of my meshes, which I've been stupidly ignoring for a while now. Now I just want to know what I'm doing to my lightmaps that I shouldn't be. My UV's are definitely more than 3 pixels apart and theres no overlapping going on. The problem mainly affects my modular…
Small update I was able to find a solution for the shading. This person put me on the tip of using the vertex interpolator with fake lights. I created a material function that uses the SkyAtmosphereLightDirection instead of an arbitrary 3vector. It generates something I can lerp between light and dark using the level…
Hi, The last 2 weeks Ive been working on a fictional cavalry tank as both a portfolio piece and an exercise to get a better understanding of bakes for production values. I was going for a look influenced by Keith Thompsons work on Iron Grip. Incoming large amounts of text on how I designed it. Scroll to the bottom of the…
aye, neat just sharing a link to some lighting that i feel could be added here, it seems you might be going in this direction so anything that softens all of this "rendering scene", would probably go along way. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xlY6m hope it helps that is it for my input.
Yes I see your points, the general composition I've decided on is that the spaceship crashed through the ceiling but not all the way so bits of it are hanging through a hole in the ceiling which is also where the lighting for the scene comes from. As for story, I've decided that the astronaut survived for a little while…
Some things I noticed: The angle is really odd. Your lighting mainly seems to rely on an HDRI environment (of an empty office/industrial space?) rather than a studio setup. And if you did set lights, then the HDRI works against that. Some of the reflections seem to have little or no Fresnel falloff when facing the camera.…
Hi! I’m a 3D Environment Artist specializing in environment art, props, and procedural materials for video games. I’m currently open to freelance opportunities and collaborations with indie or mid-scale studios. I have over 4 years of experience creating game-ready 3D assets, with a strong focus on environment design, trim…
Kudos on the work, and welcome to Polycount! I worked 6 years at Wayfair, helping lead the 3D team to make environments and renders like this. We developed a bunch of guidelines for how to make and light and shoot scenes. First thing, the lighting is very warm, not matching the reference. I’d suggest adjusting it brighter,…
I made this recently for a project I'm working on, depicting Venus in the year 2155. Spacewhales are sentient vessels, kept aloft by oxygen held in their hulls. They house several thousand colonists. The large white circles are domes across their hull ("barnacles") that span a couple city blocks in diameter. Here we see…