It's possible that you need more AO on your leaves. Bake out an AO map from xnormal (or whatever) and multiply it into your diffuse using your lightmap UVs. That'll darken the leaves inside the pile but keep the leaves on the edges bright. Care to share your research on cinematic rain? <3
Yep, good ol' light shafts! I agree, the leaves do seem a bit bright, i could just darken up the diffuse. So I'm having a problem with a spot light. Im trying to have a bright light come out from under a door i just put in and in the editor it looks fine..but when i bake lights it doesnt work anymore...any way i can force…
My good friend An-Tim (ThornedVenom) wrote a great critique to help my environment and I wanted to share what he said here. An-Tim: "there's something I find really odd about it, not because of the dream-like quality you are attempting to convey but because there is something disrupting about the overall harmony of the…