Dynamic Lighting

[Simon]

I'm ditching matcaps in favor of dynamic lighting. I've put a clip of moving a point light around in realtime on Patreon.

I like things like point lights and spot lights. I'd like to have different light shapes too to cast interesting shadows on my models.

I'm planning to let you paint with complete materials the same way you currently paint with colours.



The same objecs again with tweaked settings on the lights:

[mykyl]

That looks interesting. Looking forward to seeing it in action.

[weswes]

This might be just what I was looking for!

[Simon]

Finished the Light Rig creator UI (Screenshot on Patreon). Now I'm moving onto the Materials creation UI. I tried out some complex material shaders, but I think plain old bumpmaps are the best option - but I'm adding an auto UV mode so you can sculpt without texture stretching without needing to unwrap UVs all the time.

[moogaloonie]

These materials look great! I am curious though... Are the environment maps part of each material or a component of the lighting rig?

[Simon]

Unlike my old MatCap/Lightmap system I've taken all the properties that have to do with the environment, lighting, reflections and so on into the LightRig, and left only a few basic properties on the MatRig, like colour, roughness, metalness and finickity stuff like texture, bump and displacement maps.

[moogaloonie]

Unlike my old MatCap/Lightmap system I've taken all the properties that have to do with the environment, lighting, reflections and so on into the LightRig, and left only a few basic properties on the MatRig, like colour, roughness, metalness and finickity stuff like texture, bump and displacement maps.

So these are PBR materials that could be exported to blender, Unity, UE, etc.?

[Simon]

Potentially yes, if you tweaked the format a little. It is the same idea translated into a system that makes sense to an artist rather than a physics person.

[moogaloonie]

I still think with these materials, and a basic bokeh/DoF effect, there would be a lot of people using Curvy for their final images without needing to export.