I want it to look realistic, but something is wrong with shadows and light

KOCGI · February 18, 2019, 2:35pm

OK, now a question for the rendering and lightning masters here.
I want my level to look real, everything is HQ, but I can’t get it as realistic as I want it to be.

All setting are on maximum, I followed several tutorials to make rendering quality great, but the rendereing quality allways keep its look.

Here are the main issues;

Heres the highligh-issue in a closeup, I really have no idea where the light is coming from. There is no light placed anywhere in that room that can highlight so much. Any suggestions?

Any suggestion on how I can make it look more real in general would also be nice

What do I have to do to make it look good? Is there anything more I can do with post processing? I wan’t it to look as real as possible.

anonymous_user_f26c856c1 · February 18, 2019, 3:29pm

Hi!

Your lightmap resolutions are not high enough to get realistic results!
I’m guessing you face snap your walls which won’t give as good result as edge snapped ones…
I don’t see portals in your scene…
Could you show us your lightmass settings?

The lit face: its normals are flipped!! You can fix it in your 3d app where the mesh is coming from or you can try to turn off of using mikktspace…

KOCGI · February 20, 2019, 1:54am

It must be something with the settings: lightmaps are pretty high already.
Normals arn’t flipped, it’s very strange.