Tom Sirdevan, look developer and lighting artist, continues with the procedural/dynamic sky using Blueprint and the Material Editor, this time adding a procedural sun with a customizable size and color. He also shows how you can connect the rotation of your directional light to the sky material to determine the position of the sun in the sky.
- [Voiceover] Continuing on.…We're gonna make a sun for a sky now.…So I'm gonna go to the Environment Blueprint.…I'll make this full screen.…And I'm gonna add another…one of these Set Vector Parameter Values.…So Set Vector Parameter Value on Material.…And I'll plug it in the top output…into the top input of this guy.…I'm gonna call this first parameter, Sky Direction.…
So sorry, it's gonna be Sun Direction.…I have sky in the mind.…Sun Direction…and there's a couple of other sun properties…that we want to control.…So, I'm gonna make a couple more of these.…So Set Vector Parameter Values on Material again.…Do the same thing.…This parameter is going to be called, Sun Color.…
And then we're gonna make one more.…This time, it's gonna be a Scalar Parameter.…So Scalar just means a single number…instead of a Vector which will be three numbers.…Scalar also usually refers to a floating point number…which you can also think of as a decimal point number.…And I'm gonna do the same thing again.…And this time, I will call this parameter name,…
Author
Tom Sirdevan
Released
7/6/2016- Direct lighting
- Indirect lighting
- Creating a sky with Blueprint
- Deferred shading
- Dynamic sky and sun
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 10s
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1. Direct Lighting
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Direct lighting overview5m 19s
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Create shadows in the scene7m 59s
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IES light profiles2m 52s
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Light functions5m 49s
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2. Indirect Lighting
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Reflections5m 12s
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3. Lighting Effects
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Deferred shading effects4m 7s
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Dynamic sky with Blueprint9m 17s
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Dynamic sun with Blueprint11m 24s
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The final touches2m 50s
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Conclusion
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Next steps20s
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