Lighting Prac

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Just some renders from my lighting and rendering prac at uni in Maya. The graphics cards at uni are complete and utter shit, so forgive any ugly-looking edges, especially on the shadows. Which is, yaknow, what the prac was focusing on. GO UNI. Don't worry, when I render the car later (which is srsly kickarse, btw) I'll do that on my home machine X3


Ambient lighting, which is boring and for some reason won't let the leather texture on my couch show up. Standard light, evenly lights the whole scene.


Directional lighting, made to simulate sunlight. That couch would be REALLY uncomfortable. It has no give in it whatsoever :D


Point light, which comes from a single point and shines in all directions, like a light bulb. I made it yellow to make it feel more homely :D DIG THAT CRAPPY GRAPHICS CARD, YEAH.


Spot light, pretty self-explanatory. This one is fun cos you can make shadows of DOOM behind stuff. Look at that couch. You just know there's a guy with a machine gun hiding behind it.


Area light, which is sorta weird. It's like a giant box is shining the light down rather than just a point. Not sure when you'd use that.


Volume light, good for candles and fire and other stuff that's really bright at its source but dies pretty rapidly. Hence, orange light. Coulda made a candle to go with it but screw that. You'd get marks on the lovely leather couch.


And now a look at shadows, this is raytracing shadow! Which can go through transparent objects like glass and still cast a bit of a shadow. I'm so proud of that glass on the table and I don't know why. It's a cylinder with the top cut off and the bottom shrunk a bit, then the same texture as I'd already made for the table top applied to it. Mmm, easy. Also, coffee table modelled to look like ours in the bar room. 'Cept ours has round legs and dodads on the feet that I couldn't be screwed modelling.


And depth map shadows, which I can't really see the point of. Supposed to simulate sort of cloudy day shadows, but it can't go though transparent objects. Meh.

Comments

[perfectdays.livejournal.com]

Holy crap these are super good *___*! I can't wait to see what you do next with this program X3. Also you're going to post the versions with a better graphics card later, yes :D?

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Maaaaybe, if I can be stuffed XD The impressiveness will come with my car >D It just needs a bit of a backgroundy type thing, then I get to play with cameras, according to the prac. Lighting makes things look so shiny~