RyanSpaulding opened this issue on Feb 21, 2006 ยท 4 posts
RyanSpaulding posted Tue, 21 February 2006 at 9:43 AM
Is 60/40 what you guys typically start at for sunny GI scenes?
-Ryan Spaulding
VueRealism.Com
LordWexford posted Tue, 21 February 2006 at 11:25 AM
I'll often knock the ambient right back, 30 or less, so that most of the illumination is coming from the sunlight.
bruno021 posted Tue, 21 February 2006 at 1:45 PM
I generally leave it as it is in the material editor, but change values in the atmosphere tab, where I push the sliders to 60% sunlight, takes care of unwanted graininess, and gives more contrast.
Phantast posted Wed, 22 February 2006 at 5:36 AM
Ditto - it's easier to change settings globally in the atmosphere setting. Changing ambient settings in the material editor is needed for special effects - for instance, using a fake landscape in an alpha plane requires the lighting to be all ambient and not diffuse, since you don't want lights falling on the alpha plane as if it were an object.