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Fantastic video and a great example of why I like working in the ghetto/mobile. ;)

Whats that environment?

Thank you for your Content :3 Im a lighting artist and when I can I try to stay realistic. So using only the actual light sources. However there are a lot of circumstances where the actual lightsource is to far away and realistically too weak to light like a hallway and then I have to add another spotlight with a custom attenuation falloff to light the whole path. I do mostly baked lighting at my work so that might change with Lumen. It so much depends on the circumstances I beleave. I have areas I light that are fully realistic because the materials allow for much bounce to light up the area but sometimes the materials that are beeing used might be in a midgrey to a darker range and then I have to use additonal fake bounce lights to light up the room. And yes I agree like 2004335% on not overusing too many lights since its not performant (in realtime) and makes bakes slow (for baked lighting)

Very awesome video thanks for your content. I wish there was a similar form for Environment Artist

About albedo, what you say is mostly false. Albedo is color response of material, so brightness should be essentially removed from it. Having a dark albedo just means that material reflects no light. In most engines light doesn't "bounce", this is starting to change and there's pre-baking as well, but as a general rule - no. Also, dark albedo on a metal surface is not going to do much, because metals are (close to) perfect reflectors, so little energy is absorbed either way. For anyone interested in PBR - I recommend a basic course, SIGGRAPH has plenty, and GDC has a few. I'm a software engineer, so my view is skewed here, but it's useful to understand what you're doing.

Thanks for this ! I'm also a lighting artist. Added my salary on the form. Wow I'm low lol

i'm newbie learn env art. i have question. Do big company game make AAA get assets model, props from marketplace to use in project commerical?

I know there are a lot of tutorials on this matter, so to anyone wondering if this is worth watching, I say yes, go ahead! The video is very informative, and the man shares valuable insights from experience. Whether you're a beginner or intermediate, you'll learn a lot.

Man, Your channel is a Goldmine ... I literally can't thank you enough for the list and all the effort you're putting into this channel .. Thanks a lot.

Could listen to a british guy saying "roughness" for hours.

175000$ per year 😮 is this before tax or after tax ?

Hey, Thats so incredible of you to put up all this!

Thank a lot of that!

Amazing stuff! Thank you so much, it helps a lot!

💡 Lighting Artist | Video Games Industry | Master Resource List 💡 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eBzBT83TcVQLUTjytOzJvKI7LZ00OdAriTeZjYYUP-E/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Man, your channel is a goldmine for game designers! Thanks for presenting all this good stuff to us.

This was truly informative and got so much to learn. I cant file the resource link (the spreadsheet link) . I am not looking somewhere i should?

I've used this exact technique many times, particularily in Atlantic Fleet on mobile to have shadows under the aircraft parked on carrier decks. You can get a lot of mileage out of simple planes with alpha textures on them. We used this technique for many applications in Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age as well. It's incredibly useful.

In the last section of the video, you talk about neutral lighting and possibly good HDRI for that in Marmoset. I'm a happy owner of Marmoset, and I was curious about that. However, when I search for 'Studio Tomato' nothing comes up. I'm a fan of 'Studio Neutral,' but that 'Studio Tomato' is haunting me. Did you get the HDRI name wrong, or am I missing something?

wow, this is brilliant.

An off topic thing I found interesting is that the flat face of the ceiling (the part extruding the farthest out) looks like a big N-gon. Aren't those typically bad?

Hey, thanks for the shout out to my portfolio and for highlighting my work breakdowns in a really cool way, as well as adding your own take and knowledge to them! Really happy to hear that this stuff is useful to you and that there's some benefit to me sharing some of this sort of thing in my galleries. Your channel is really cool too, been taking a look through your videos, keep up the great work! So informative!

Thanks for the video, helps clarify lot of things. I was watching some RE4 gameplay, and wondering how widespread is the use of trim sheets for props. I've seen a big yellow excavator that looked like it was textured with trim sheets. Are these also useful for metal edge wear ? I wonder in a modern game what's the ratio of trim sheets used to custom textures for each prop. I assume they use custom textures just for the most important hero props ?

Thanks , cool 🎉

That was such an amazing breakdown, I really enjoyed watching. One thing regarding the albedo map having to be more on the brighter side, even for darker surfaces such as the asphalt or tar or rubber... Yes, that has been a thing even before the PBR days, in engines like UE3 or the earlier versions of the Cry Engine. And that is because of how light behaves in game engines, just like you explained. The albedo map (or diffuse map, back in the day) is still one of the main drivers when it comes to light bouncing. So in the old days, back when lightmaps were used way more than now, we would always use the Levels filter inside of Photoshop to check and make sure the color texture is sitting on the brighter side of the spectrum. But we will also not go overboard and have pixels that are 100% white. Basically, you do not want to have pixels that are either 100% black or 100% white, because the game engines may see those as 'dead pixels'.

Can you make a video about 3d environment in arcane

I literally learn more from your 10-to 15-minute videos than I do from a 2 or 3-hour course. Thank you so much, and keep up the good stuff.

nice video!

Thanks!

nice video!

thank you, mate : )

Is there a way you are able to find such good references for specific things or do you just come across them and bookmark them for later? I often have to make strange sci-fi assets and constantly wish I could look at similar things done by professionals. I notice in your videos you find a lot of stuff on artstation, but I'm not very adept at navigating the site. Maybe a future video topic?

Senior Gamedev Artist here, love your channel.. Even if you know (all) that already, its still very enjoyable to watch...

Crazy how much work goes into such a small part of the game, looks amazing though

This stuff is great, thanks for your content!

I found your channel a while ago from the God of War video and I must say, i found a genuine Goldmine, for me, who is working towards becoming an Environment artist the videos are the best resource i could have hoped for. I absolutely love your content and your videos have helped me and taught me a bunch of stuff. Thank you for making these videos♥

lately this is my favourite youtube channel! I work in the industry and watch all your "Why does..." videos multiple times

"Johns" not "Jones", apologies for that on the intro. More awesome breakdowns at www.artstation.com/trevelyan

amazing content!

I'm happy that Megalights can be used in postprocess volumes so we can pick and choose when to use it. More lights aren't really 'free' with megalights, it has a constant compute time but quality lowers the more lights there are (it computes fewer rays per pixel for each so it get noisier). So that backs up the idea that lights shouldn't be spammed everywhere, but it's nice that we at least have the option now for scenes that call for it.

I agree. With new techs like these there comes a danger of laziness. Just throwing stuff in. As an 3D generalist dev, who worked on a game in UE3 on PS3 I warned our small art team that be conscious about texture sizes, because the PS3 doesn't have that much memory that is also shared with GPU. They didn't listen. First time it ran on PS3 was like 10fps and they had to go back downgrade bunch of textures to fit into memory. Other problem is now outside of developers, more like gamers and hobbyists youtubers putting out videos how Unreal Engine destroying the game industry. They don't. The people who never had to gain experiences in game development about bottlenecks do. Just because it's now easier to use some tools and I am glad I don't have to do lightmap UVs, doesn't mean I shouldn't be aware the resource management anymore.

Man you have no Idea how helpfull these breakdowns are .. I sincerely thank you for these amazing videos ..

New UE5 games are suffering from stutters and asset size bloats due to higher fidelity. I would like to see more AAA games embracing good art direction and optimization instead of abusing these novel features for hyperrealistic graphics. I've also seen some indie games using megascan assets, but their custom assets don't look as detailed and it sticks out like a sore thumb.

I agree completely. And we are going to see a lot of new games abusing the new resource, like with every new thing :P

Yea, I think megaliths it’s good solution but… in the future… I have the similar opinion less means more 🤘and of course pbr

@EMC3D @alightingartist can you recommend a book or source on the topic of PBL in Unreal?

I agree, the rule "use as much as necessary, no more then needed" still applies

Would be cool if you do a demo how you start a project for lighting work.