Lighting and Shadergraph


Monkey Lighting

The lights were made by creating materials with 'emission' enabled. Emission allows materials to give off light of a chosen colour and intensity. Ambient occlusion was added which adds softer shadows around objects to make the lighting more realistic. The lighting was then 'baked' meaning lightmaps for objects were created. Lightmaps effectively store the lighting as a texture and apply it over the top of objects. Finally, bloom was added which gives the lights a glow effect.

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Monkey Shader

The shader was made by setting the base colour to blue. To make the highlight a 'fresnel effect' node was created. This makes the outer parts of a mesh different. This was then made into an orange colour by multiplying it with a 'color' node. Finally, it was made to change over time. This was put into the emission part of the shader, causing it to glow.


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Scene Lighting

To make the scene lighting the directional light colour was changed into more of a blue. Additionally, a few yellow lights were added to the scene. Like before, the yellow lights were made by creating a material with 'emission' enabled followed by baking the lighting. 

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Lighthouse Shader

To make the lighthouse shader a voronoi texture node was created which changes over time. It effects the smoothness and how metallic the lighthouse is. Additionally, a blue colour was applied to the texture and made to be the base colour of the lighthouse.


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