Unreal 4 Lighting Academy - Session 01.1
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This is the first session for this little Unreal 4 Lighting community thing :) Sadly, it became so long that I had to split up the first part, so more will follow soon!
Very big thanks go to Saralie Wågström who was so kind to provide me with this great environment of hers. You can check her Artstation here: www.artstation.com/artist/sar...
More Information can be found here: forums.unrealengine.com/showt...) - เกม
This series is perfect! It goes over everything that I've been fumbling around trying to figure out on my own. This is so incredibly insightful and knowledge packed; Thank you so much for these, I'm excited to start my next scene and really start applying all of this great information. Thank you again!
First time i enjoy a youtube video this much. You completely took my attention within the first minutes with your analysis of the digital paintings, and for that i thank you. Eager to continue watching your videos. And must say your approach is completely real and human, most videos out there had already everything figured out and think thats whats important but the important stuff is to deal with problems and the approach to solve them and to see that even masters like yourself can encounter certain problems.
Thank you and keep up cause you are doing an amazing job.
Hey, this series is awesome! I learned so much just sitting back and watching you fiddle with this, that and everything but the kitchen sink! If there are more videos, I'll watch them no matter the length! Cheers!
I've got a lot of new knowledge about scene creation from this lesson. Thank you so much for the proper lighting techniques, the useful features that UE4 provides us and the advice for what we shouldn't do. And even though I'm not a native English speaker, I understood almost everything he explained. The explanation is slow and detailed. I'll keep subscribing this channel and watching next videos.
Just started this series and I'm already loving it. Great work and thanks for all the important insights. :)
Excellent! I'm a Maya Lighting Artist and was looking for tutorials for Unreal 4 and this is just great. Some of the concepts explained in this series have even cleared some of the doubts I had while working in Maya. Thanks for the video.
This is absolutely wonderful. Lighting and rendering are certainly an area where I can improve a lot so this helps enormously to get a grip on the subject, because it is certainly not easy.
Hey man. thanks so much for this. All the time spent on your end to teach people about lighting is so generous of you. This is really cool :'D
This is fantastic. What a great resource. Thanks so much. Keep up the good work. subscribed!
Doing my Honours project on 3D environments and lighting has always been a weakness of mine, this was a fantastic find! Thank you so much.
This series of videos are pure magic dude! thank u for share your knowledge
There are so many amazing tips here, really thanks for sharing your knowledge.
This is a really fantastic video. Very well presented with great info. People complaining about 'the theory' being too long should really stick to the 'click this, click that' tutorials for beginners. It's a shame that people are so impatient when watching tutorials. Unfortunately, they are missing out as this is packed with knowledge.
On my own channel I have a similar approach to yours where I always try to delve into the WHY we do what we do in 3D/CG as it is so much more valuable than mindless button-clicking and hand-holding. At first I was worried that I'd bore people with my constant explanations and preamble but, 11K subs later I find that a lot of folk are enjoying the format. To my mind, it's a lot more valuable to take in as much information as can be had. No matter how long we're doing this stuff there's always more to learn. :)
So keep up the excellent work. Pro workflow vids like this, on TH-cam, are all too rare. I came for the UE....got comfy with the Stahlenhag.....stayed for the thought-provoking demo. Look forward to more from you.
Cheers mate.
Thank you very much! Means a lot to me that this is being received so well and people actually get something out of it :)
I’m not spending one hour to work on something that will take half the time. Work smarter not harder..
@@51Daedalus Hello, great videos. Is the uProject and content available for download so I can follow along? Thank you.
@@51Daedalus Disregard my last comment. I see you don't release the project. Regardless, these videos are a great learning tool. Thank you.
This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise!
I love the content and approach! At first, I was skeptical of your "not going to prepare ahead of time" philosophy, but you quickly won me over as I saw you encounter case after case where you had to deconstruct, explore, and improvise solutions. I learned a ton. I was also worried about the length, but honestly, I got sucked in and had watched the whole thing before I knew it! Watching it at 1.5x speed helped. ;)
Thank you very much! Great to see that this approach is valued as I wasnt sure in the beginning as well :D It feels a bit off at first, but I strongly believe that problem solving is a vital part of this so it would be even more weird to just leave it out of the equasion^^
"zack" haha dad always says that. Great video, will watch the hole serie! Thanks for making this.
Absolutely brilliant material! Learned much of new things from this episode, now gonna watch next parts.
Keep it up man! Greetings from Russland ;)
I love you man, watching you is like watching myself working. "Oh, wait... I just fucked up my layers, lets do it again." "Hmm, this was working before, I am not sure why is not working now..."
I learned a lot of good stuff from this video, and I am so looking forward to my Unreal Engine journey in 2019. (planning to totally transfer from Max 3D renders to UE4 applications and walkthroughs)
Thank you for such a nice content!
Thank you very much! Every bit helped, especially analysing the concept art!
this playlist look like its going to cover my lightning issuies I'm going to start and finish as soon as possible I haven't watched a second but I'm so happy to have this playlist
You are great at this. I am surprised it is your first time doing something like it.
Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you very much! :)
Thank you so very much for these :) . They are awesomeness.
The videos maybe long, but its all relevant knowledge, to become a good lighting artist you must understand "the world"! (lol), not just quick how to tutorials, i just finished watching them all and i think they are great, well done! :) time stamps would be useful though for some people :)
Looking forward to seeing more, thanks a lot
Just today I was thinking I should expand my horizons and learn some lighting and baaam... just like that your tutorials show up on UE4 forums. Thank you so much!
Great! You are very welcome and I am glad it was helpful to you :)
Thanks for a nice tutorial!
Have a pointless facts: The "Spear" he is throwing is actually a road marker that we have in the countryside to show the snow plows where the road ends so they don't drive into a ditch :)
Thank you for taking the time to do these videos! I see a lot of critiquing going on in the comments. I say Fuck IT. Speak how you want and as long as you want. Do what feels right to you to communicate this information. I personally think it's great for someone to take time and share info on something they're good at. I appreciate it and I thank you for your time spent!
Hey Daedalus, thanks a lot for doing this (I was aware of that serie of videos by the thread on the unreal engine forum you created, but I think it's easier to communicate with you here ;) ).
I'm a french student in programming at a video game school, and I don't have any sort of technical knowledge in lighting, and in art in general. But your video is so captivating ! It's so interesting, so thanks a lot for doing this ! Really, it's awesome !
Would it be possible to enable the community to create the subtitle for these videos ? I really want to ad french subtitle, because I think it's just an amazing serie that french people (and averyone in general) need to watch (for those who don't understand english).
Thanks again !
Victor Gallet, alias Elkantor
thank you for the tutorial. It's fantastic :)
Curious to see what you would do with Lumen.
Whenever I try to build lighting from main menu, all itdoes oddly is say, Bulding Geometry,nothing about lighting, is this a bug or maybe I have something misconfigured ? Thx --btw I have a 4 tiled world comp world.
what are your thoughts on Nvidia VXGI?
Thank you very much. What about project files? I really wanna try it using your ways!
Hi. Thanks for great video. I have question. When you disabled global illumination in post process menu you said it only affects static lighting there is no effect on dynamic lighting. Is this same on LPV enabled scenes too? May be I am wrong but I think it effects to dynamic lighting GI too when you enabled LPV. But again may be I am wrong. :/ Began just now but first minutes of your first video is already very interesting.
Thanks. Very interesting tutorial.
Thank you so much!
You my friend are exceptional. I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to produce this tutorial. Very insightful, skillfully presented and invaluable to a self-learner like me. Please keep going. Subscribed!
My only feedback is to cut out the swearing. I'm not against it or offended - I do it all the time - but for me on the video it seems unnecessary.
Thank you very much! Yeah, you are not the first one to point out the swearing :D I totally agree on this, but its also just part of my charme :D I dont even notice when this happens^^ I will try to improve on this with newer videos, but there is definitely a chance of finding the accidental "fuck" in there :D Again, thank you very much and I will try to improve on this! :)
51Daedalus - hey no problem. You deserve credit for this. I understand about the swearing and it's no deal breaker :) The shear value of the video(s) outweigh any swearing.
Haha, thought the same) However, with or without f-words, please go on 51Daedalus! Extremely helpful and interesting to follow along
Can you elaborate some more on dynamic vs static lighting? You seem to advocate dynamic lighting, what factors determine either or? Also, does dynamic lighting not require lightmap UVs and baking lights in UE4?
Hey! Sure. So I am actually explaining why I went for dynamic lighting in the video. The scene I am working on is not mine and in general, I try to stay true to what was imagined by the artist that sent me the scene. So this scene was set up with dynamic lighting to begin with.
However, personally, I do prefer static lighting since the quality is so much higher and results can get more photoreal when NOT building natural environments. Overall, I decide like this: is it a lush nature scene with hundrets of vegetation assets = dynamic lighting. Is it more of a man made scene or something like that with a bit of vegetation = static lighting. There are also ways to combine the two to a certan degree...but there is not a 100% rule and it all depends on the context of the scene. Oh and for dynamic lighting, you never need to author lightmaps or bake anything! Hope this helps! :)
51Daedalus thanks man, that really clears things up
i thank see,but i listen understand english.
you do forward part spreak theory?
英文不好 很尴尬啊！
Subscribed...
Great
Where can i download these assets? So I can follow along
Only sudgestion I have is to swear 10% more.
nice
Yeah. Great content that is pretty rare to find. Good work. However, like Josue Magallanes says, the starting of the video is too long. I, for example, speed up the video 1.5 times and watch.
@51Daedalus, can you open editor of your videos for edit translate text in your subtitles? I'd like to translate your words on Russian Language =)
Hey man...thats an awesome idea! I will try to figure out how to do that tomorrow :)
Cool =)
Let me know about that =)
Hey man, its enabled now for all "Lighting Academy" Videos! Lemme know if something doesnt work as intended and thanks a ton for your effort! :)
51Daedalus thx)
wer ist saralie
That german language is not photoshop problem it is windows 10 problem. You instaled windows 10 with region german . and he fk up every program menu language. or i have that stupid bug with it. and when change every time after update he fk up it again.
Actually, you are wrong in this case^^ I am German so I have a german Windows (Windows 7 btw^^) and Photoshop CC2015 was installed in German as most of my programs. I later changed the language to English because I am used to work in english software from work but when I updated PS to CC2017 it set it back to German again ;) So yeah, I have already switched the new version back to English again so I am fine ;)
Awesome video! Just maybe clean up your audio, or get a better microphone! :P
30mins in and you start finally showing the "how to" portion, damn man
u said fck, *swear_jar_emoji ...
wantah black
Already I like that you are going kinda blind, because its true that most tutorials, mostly the ones that advertise a product will be too perfect and all prepared in advance, but production doesnt work that way.
Man you sound depressed... everything okay dude?
(Just kidding tho - Fantastic work!)
why do you have to swear?
Luigi Mussardo because those are my First Videos ever and that's Just the way I Talk! XD BUT...It gets a lot better in later Videos since quite some people Suggested that I should Tone down on that :)
haha i came from Session 3 to watch this video, and i just realized why he said in that Session " holy s ok i'm not gonna swear" lol
Okay so I'm watching through the video and I have some feedback. The video is simply way too long. Talking about concepts and stuff for the first 30 minutes will scare some people away. I think you'd benefit more by having a separate videos where you talk about theory and things to look for. Like when you used photoshop to check the brightness level. That was something new and extremely useful. But most people will skip through those 30 minutes to see you work on the scene. Also I loved the fact that you set all the options to default. That will be really helpful for people trying to learn
Josue Magallanes thanks a lot! thats some useful Feedback, I will try to streamline this more in the future :)
Hmm, I actually enjoyed the whole thing. Most of the time tutorials are super focused but I liked how you share your thoughts on small stuff. As a level designer who's been struggling with lighting for years I'm learning heaps.
So I guess it's up to the viewer. My thoughts is that the more information the better. Instead I would suggest maybe cutting the videos into shorter segments perhaps, that way your videos are easier to browse through without sacrificing the amount of information you share.
I certainly am incredibly thankful for your efforts !!!
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it. Also, I agree on the length :D Definitely want to have more but shorter parts for the coming sessions :)
Me too, loved the details and length! Thanks
But maybe to meet Josue Magallanes's suggestion you can maybe add time indicators (Intro,Concepts, First Scenario ...)
@Josue Magallanes I gotta disagree. I wanna hear everything anyone has to say about lighting, there's just simply not enough discussion about on of the most important aspects of modern graphics. There are already a ton of videos explaining how to stick a light in your scene and then they just end. We absolutely need more lighting content.
Awesome video!
When you pull the example diffuse textures from the Unreal Engine Lightmass example around 44:00, the one on the left is supposed to be correct, while the one on the right is supposed to be incorrect.
No, they are just different examples to illustrate what to look out for :)
They are saying that the two images give very different results, with the scene on the left making the light more noticeable, and the scene on the right limiting the visibility of the light to only the starkest changes. Also the note says that the average in the first image of ~.7 represents about 50% lit in sRGB.
Haha...you got me! :D See this happens when you answer questions while taking a short break and being unfocussed^^ You are absolutely right! Left=Good and right=Bad ;)