Adding lighting to our mini-project
Lighting is the cornerstone of any good render, and in this chapter, we're going to work through the process of adding lights, tuning them to suit our overall environment, and then making sure they work properly inside of EEVEE. I'll cover both the artistic and technical aspects of what we're doing. We'll add a world lighting system and a few simple lights and then consider some of the ways EEVEE can be used for better lighting, especially in the compositing stage.
World lighting system
If you've been following along (or downloaded Mini-Project 1-Chapter 3
), you should have something resembling what I have here, a scene with a lot of materials but not a lot of lighting:
Let's start to fix up our lighting by adding a world lighting system and tweaking it so we still get some good shadows inside the scene:
- The first step is to disable the...