Example of work

[hoopti]

This should probably go into the Work in Progress or Finished work sections, but for those that are interested in this series, I thought it appropriate to post it here.

The basic scene was from a Simplylightwave tutorial I had completed a long time ago. I spiced up the tree a little more, but still have some work to do on the fence and the terrain texturing wise. I just thought I would use this simple scene to put into application what I had learned watching your series.

This scene is lighted with 3 area lights, one providing the sunlighting, and the other two providing fill. I used two spotlights (Saslight only recognizes spotlights) to provide shadows, and the second to provide changes in color of the grass since saslight is limited in that area. Ambient light is on but set low to provide lighting to the groundplane and provide just a touch of additional ambient fill.

To see a fullsized version, you can visit this site:

http://bigdogvideos.com/movies/sunset.jpg

Crits and comments welcome.

Hoop

[kurv]

Hoop, that looks great!!! Thanks for sharing the work wiht us. No crits from me, but LOR might have some minor ones... he has the lighting eye after all..

[LOR]

Hey Hoop. You've got a nice feeling going on there. I feel like there should be shadows from the tree visible on the fence. And on the shaded side of the tree, I would expect to see a blue fill from the skylight which is almost dominant in this scene, as the sun sets and it's power is diminished by the atmosphere. It would also be nice to see blue fill in the grass shadows. Especially since the sun is so color saturated by the atmospheric particles, I'd expect to see a fairly high color contrast between the warm sunlight and the cool skylight.

To clarify a point about Saslite...it does work with raytraced lights....in other words they will illuminate saslite, but saslite will only provide shadow functions for spotlights ie: receive LW shadows and self shadowing.

lor:sunsmiley

[primemac]

Nice work. I do have and I must say I am not as good but this needs a few stars in the darker sky. I note that you should see some level of starts at this view. I would also sugest that you fuzz the horizon the line is to sharp.

Again I am new to this Sky stuff.