Week 7: Development on Lighting, Alpha Preparation things to do over the weekend

Again it’s been another slow progressive week, this week I decided to start creating a new set of lights without using light mass global illumination. This creates a harder task of creating realistic lighting as it gets rid of all the techniques light mass uses, like emitting bouncing light, this is crucial in my scene because it’s the only way I can have excusable reasons for lighting up my scene apart from the amber coming through the large windows.

These particular shots I created within a few minutes. Creating lighting without light mass is incredibly quick especially the build time; dropping from 1 hour build time in high quality to 45 seconds without light mass shows a big difference. This make life a lot easier for me so I can quickly correct mistakes rather than wasting so much time for it to look rubbish.

Lighting without light mass is defiantly my way to go, I do however miss its effects, I thought they made the scene work very well, but that was with so much strong lighting from lights that you shouldn’t really use too much. Now I’m building with mostly point lights, this is going to really improve overall performance, there’s going to be a huge cut in CPU/GPU performance to process all the lighting, this also gives me an advantage of introducing some fancy dynamic lighting to emphasise some atmosphere. At the moment lighting looks still and boring, creation of some dynamic lighting and shadows to show a bit of movement in the scene I believe will work a treat

Without Lightmass

Over the Weekend

My presentation is going to be simple and straight to the point, over this weekend I will be producing some very high quality video renders out from UDK using the matinee and kismet sequences to demonstrate the level as a walk through.

Before this I need to do the following

• ·         Finish as many props as possible
• ·         Reception desk
• ·         Misc Objects on desks
• ·         Dynamic lighting
• ·         Blockouts for hallway and reception scene