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Re: UDK Normals in Ambient Shadow
Awesome, thanks for that Ace-Angel. I do have a question about your node setup though. There are 2 nodes I have never seen before. The top one I get what its doing as its pretty straight forward but I have never seen a node like that. For the bottom one I cant really tell by the image what the node looks like so I am not… -
Re: UDK Normals in Ambient Shadow
Those are my custom nodes, I made them to save space and so the material doesn't start lagging due to many, MANY nodes in the editor. Here is an SS of what's inside them: Just remember to clamp the second node, or else you will get weirdness here and there. -
Re: UDK Normals in Ambient Shadow
The problem I see with those methods is that it will also increase the AO effect in sunlight as well as the ambient areas. Unless there is a way to mask out just the areas in ambient shadow, but for that, I have no idea how to do. If that is what you are referring to by World Masked Sky Ambient, well I cannot find any node… -
Re: UDK Normals in Ambient Shadow
If you setup a custom material, you could bake out the AO of the original mode/normal map, and have it Lerp/Mul on your Diffuse, and slot it into the DiffuseLighting on your material. Cheaper way, is to Mul the Blue channel of your Normal Map, but it won't look accurate. If you're on the other hand, trying to do it for… -
Re: UDK Normals in Ambient Shadow
OK, here it is, I took a look at Naughty Dog's papers and their setup, and this should more or less roughly translate to what they did: Sky Ambient setup will look like this: World mask fed into a Lerp's Alpha and each slot takes in a color to fake the sky setup. I used a sky blue and deep red color to show what it will…
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