Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
#
1
11-05-2005
, 12:24 PM
19 year Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2002
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 2,140
Light mapping
Sorry I could not supply the pic I saw, I lucked on to it and lost the web address, but here is a example pic from the movie TRON.
Last edited by THX1138; 05-12-2010 at 10:14 PM.
#
2
11-05-2005
, 03:50 PM
Subscriber
Join Date: Nov 2004
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: In the middle of nowhere in VA
Posts: 749
#
3
11-05-2005
, 04:39 PM
19 year Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2002
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 2,140
#
4
11-05-2005
, 09:25 PM
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,257
So... the lightmap per se is a fancy name for the map used to control that effect it in realtime shaders....
There are two ways to do that in maya:
1) The QD way
Just stick a texture into ambient (and optionally into glow). the intensity will control the amount of brightness.
2) the controlled way is lenghtier to explain than what i have time to, but you can do that and much more with the help of the rendernodes and the almighty F1 key.
Prepare your index finger and hit F1 because you´re interested in reading the shaders section and specially in knowing how to make a multiple shader. with the outer layer with color ambient glow and transparency each controlled with its respective fine tuned maps and then put another full shader underneath with its own full set of maps.
Last edited by dragonfx; 11-05-2005 at 09:28 PM.
#
5
12-05-2005
, 08:47 AM
19 year Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2002
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 2,140
Anyway, let me know what you think.
#
6
14-05-2005
, 01:14 AM
Subscriber
Join Date: Nov 2004
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: In the middle of nowhere in VA
Posts: 749
#
7
14-05-2005
, 07:04 AM
19 year Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2002
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 2,140
#
8
16-05-2005
, 01:48 PM
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,257
#
9
16-05-2005
, 09:37 PM
19 year Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2002
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 2,140
#
10
17-05-2005
, 02:26 PM
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Croatia
Posts: 257
It will work for sphere shape but for others...
#
11
17-05-2005
, 03:04 PM
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Croatia
Posts: 257
.....hmmm...you got me wonder,now I wont be able to sleep!
#
12
18-05-2005
, 08:05 AM
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,257
but in mental ray you can take the intensity of the color beyond the normal range (that is the principle of hdri) you could make the gray part one shader with the red part turned to a transparency map and underneat a very very red shader that projected enough red to tint the plane.
qd pic so that u see what im talking about
#
13
19-05-2005
, 09:10 AM
19 year Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2002
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 2,140
#
14
05-06-2006
, 01:20 PM
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2005
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 80
Can you show a pic of the attribute like above, if you don't mind? I'm trying to experiment this setup and for some reason, the light does not glow, more like just dull color. The color gain is at max and how you setup the displacement?Originally posted by THX1138
Ah, success at last! I didn't have to use a layerded shader for the effect. There was an attribute after all. I adjusted the color gain attribute on the ambient texture. I also udjusted the alfa gain on my displacement map. Thanks for the advice anyways dragonfx.
I did the other stuff on top and works fine with the layered shaders, but doesn't show deep hole where light glow and fade out.
I thought of something else, maybe you could use glow effect...but not good enough?
#
15
06-06-2006
, 01:05 AM
19 year Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2002
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 2,140
Posting Rules Forum Rules
Similar Threads
Light Linking Problem ...
by mtcgs in forum Lighting & Rendering replies 0 on 16-05-2013
mapping a light probe image to a sphere?
by gubar in forum Maya Basics & Newbie Lounge replies 2 on 04-06-2008
changing the distance of Point Lights
by junkyBob in forum Maya Basics & Newbie Lounge replies 16 on 12-01-2006
Dusty Area Light Shadow
by parka in forum Maya Basics & Newbie Lounge replies 1 on 19-09-2005
How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb?
by Emo in forum Maya Basics & Newbie Lounge replies 9 on 30-12-2003
Topics
Free Courses
Full Courses
VFX News
How computer animation was used 30 years ago to make a Roger Rabbit short
On 2022-07-18 14:30:13
Sneak peek at Houdini 19.5
On 2022-07-18 14:17:59
VFX Breakdown The Man Who Fell To Earth
On 2022-07-15 13:14:36
Resident Evil - Teaser Trailer
On 2022-05-13 13:52:25
New cloud modeling nodes for Bifrost
On 2022-05-02 20:24:13
MPC Showreel 2022
On 2022-04-13 16:02:13