City Scape

[DanCBradbury]

In trying to make a better looking lit building, instead of using an abmience map, I made each of the rooms, threw some lights in, and here's what i got.

[dre4mer]

Kinda nice looking dan, does it slow the render considerably to have that many lights?

 

-Ethan

[Eric2575]

Is that one light for every room? It looks really nice.

[MattWBradbury]

it was at 50% when I saw it and it had taken an hour, so two hours for the larger 1280X960 render. This smaller render here would have only taken 40 minutes.

[3DArtZ]

40 minutes.... one certainly could achieve the results without

putting lights in every room....

 

but it does look nice.

[robcat2075]

since the rooms don't affect each other you could make a decal that puts that lighting pattern on the floor and walls of each room. might have to leave lights on the ground floor for the spill, but the rest of them could be ambience map decals

[MattWBradbury]

That's what I had thought, but probably have a Decal for each room. That way you could easily control the intensity in that room, and not affect the whole floor.

[MattWBradbury]

*erase post*

[DanCBradbury]

Not only is it a single light per room, it's also 2 ray casts per light. I should probably lower that to one ray cast, as it would lower the render times tremendously.

 

But yeah, ambiance maps would definitely be more efficient, and you could even have random objects like desk shadows or figures to make it look realer, but i wanted to try something different.

 

here's the full version if anyone wanted to take a look. There's also AO in it as well