From the course: 3D Content Creation for Virtual Reality
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Creating mood with lighting - Maya Tutorial
From the course: 3D Content Creation for Virtual Reality
Creating mood with lighting
- [Voiceover] Just like in games or film, lighting can make or break a virtual reality scene. Good lighting can add mood, ambiance, and a presence that fits with the overall theme of the content or story. There are some things to know with lighting for virtual reality. Bright lights and bold or harsh colors can very negatively impact the viewer experience in virtual reality. It's always good idea to err on the side of lower light and color values. Keep things more dim and subtle than you might in a game or visualization environment that would be viewed on a flat screen. So, in our scene, our simple little workshop VR scene, we need to bring some mood to this. We really need to bring some lighting in here, but we do wanna adhere to those rules of being able to make sure that everything is not over bright or over bold. So, the first thing that we're gonna do is take a look at how this scene is structured right now. So, before I jump into the headset of virtual reality, we'll just tumble…
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