lighting and texturing landscape

[guitou80]

Hi all,

I’m trying to texture and light my landscape properly. I created this texture on Worldmachine software and i put it on a material which i applied to my landscape.

The problem is that, as you can see the render is far too bright :

do i have to change the lighting ? Or do i have to adjust some material properties ?

I have also another issue about the lighting : i cant build lighting with light mass importance volume component. Why so ?

Thanks for your help

[anonymous_user_923c79df]

1. just scale down the texture with the landscape coord
2. what happens when you build the light? -> do you get any warnings/errors?
3. put the quality settings of your editor to “epic” (sometimes low quality settings lead to problems -> landscape collision,…)

[guitou80]

hi figther5347,

Thanks for quick reply.

1. My texture has the very same size as my landscape (2017 x 2017). I rendered with a much lower brightness on my texture in order to counter the over brightness render and it was clear that it was fitting perfectly.

2. Building lighting process remains stuck at 0% endlessly

3. Thanks ! it improved a lot the render not only in terme of quality but also in term of brightness as you cans see :

[anonymous_user_923c79df]

1. you could turn down the brightness of your texture in the texture properties. Also check your “auto exposure/eye adaption” settings -> there you can choose how bright the level should get over time
2. open “swarm” (you can see it in the systray) and check if something is moving -> sometimes it can take a while till it builds the light (but make sure that the lightmass importance volume just covers the parts which should get good lightning)

[guitou80]

hi ,

1. I didn’t find auto “exposure/eye adaption”, i just found a eye adaption flag here :

I switched it off, but i didn’t notice any change in the render
Where can i find “auto exposure/eye adaption” settings please ?

2.i looked for swarm agent, but didn’t manage to find it. Where is it please ? I just read that the swarm agent is launched whenever you build lighting but i only see this :

Thanks

[anonymous_user_923c79df]

1. eye adaption -> post process volume (when you dont have one, just add one -> you can find it in the volume tab)
2. you can also adjust the brightness of your texture in the texture properties
3. swarm:

[guitou80]

,

swarm showed it was moving, so the process wasn’t “frozen”, and it was very slow but the lighting was built. However i have some lighting issues as you can see here (notice that i strongly reduced the brightness of my texture) :

Why so ?

he here is how i scaled the 2 boxes, maybe i did something wrong

[anonymous_user_923c79df]

1. disable specular in your material -> on a landscape the default values looks really bad ^^
2. Normally you just have to increase the lightmap resolution of your landscape

[guitou80]

thank you so much !

I’m applying your nice tips

i’ll reply you very soon

[guitou80]

Ok i disabled specular in material editor and it looks much better now.

About increasing the lightmap resolution of my landscape, should i edit it here ?

Or there ?

I’m asking because it’s very time consumming in term of building the lighting

[anonymous_user_923c79df]

Change it in the properties of the landscape -> 2nd picture. Try a value of around 2-4

[guitou80]

Thanks again. I changed it, building the lighting took an hour and the result is not worth the time spent. So i will refine static lighting at the very end of the creation process.