A Unity Still: Forest Path

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Took around 15 minutes to wip up. Mostly done with the terrain engine with rays of light made in blender. Hope you enjoy! :smile:

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The dark parts of the light rays break the illusion for me.

Cheers,
-Jon

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I kinda liked it that way :shock:

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it wasn’t the dark parts for me, but that’s what I thought at first. I think the problem is the inconsistency. You have a smooth blend of shadow and light, and then you have sharp edges to the rays.

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Does this look any better?

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Does this look any better?

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I remember a similar post a while back which discussed techniques for creating light-beams - a warehouse with light-beams from the windows was the example project.

Can’t seem to find it though. Anyone remember?

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I remember the posting, but I wouldn’t know how to look for it. Was a while back …

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Sure, the light beams could use some work, but I like the whole thing overall. It looks like a video game - nothing looks real, but I get the impression of what you are trying to convey, and my brain fills in the details. So I think you’re doing a great job - off to a good start, certainly. I dig the composition of the scene, personally.

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Great Work Alec! It gives one this good ole adventure-game feeling.

The brightness of the Lightbeams in the first picture is much better in my opinion. It gives more contrast to the picture. It just needs a smooth gradient fall-off to the sides as well as downwards.

Frank

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I like it. I looks like somewhere I’d like to explore. I liked the first screenshot’s light rays better. And I think they would be even better if made more translucent and whiter.

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thanks for your comments guys! I’ll keep tweaking the scene and posting my results. :slight_smile:

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Hi, congratulations Alec. Really like the the mood of the scene. How do you manage to get these light beams?

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i would use additive shader for the light beams. (all the pros do…:slight_smile: )

well, that or an expensive particle system.

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I simply made the shape of the beam in Blender, UV mapped them with a yellow-ish colour in photoshop with fading endss and used a transparent shader to give the the “ray” look. It’s not performance busting, it’s quick and easy.

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Many thanks for the tip. I saw this effect in some games and was wondering how to achieve something alike
Juan

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warehouse thread? http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=9729&highlight=warehouse

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Presactly!

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Hey there!

A nice concept you have there. But I have some minor feedback:

There’s stretching to the left and at the end of the image.
The lighting also definately need some work, try working with point lights and a light with a cookie to recreat the shadows of the leave. Then those beam look way too harsh and yellow. Sunlight isn’t really yellow. Also you could try to add a glow component to the camera to get a mysterious and gloomy picture if you fix above notes.

Good start anyway!

-Zylex

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well I don’t have pro so image effects are a no-no. I have been experimenting with cookies in the scene but I only know how to make a spotlight cookie :frowning: