UE4 Lighting Study - Cloudy Weather Need Help!

TalosX · October 29, 2016, 8:39pm

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What you say is technically true but is a bit of semantics. I just meant wet materials look shinier, which makes them appear more reflective and is another way of showing normal map details. You do see the effect of more normal map detail because of the increased contrast and the sky reflecting off the top of details. It’s not about the lighting response of the basecolor at that point as you point out, its more about the more noticeable reflection details.

That grass overcast scene is nice. Notice he has pretty high quality AO for the grass, and even the ground looks to have some undulating in the lighting detail. Its unclear if some of that variation is painted in or all responding to lighting. If its responding to lighting then he probably has the HDR set up so that one side is a bit brighter. But it does look to have subtle AO baked in as well. Its nit picking but I feel like the normal map on the rock mesh is too strong for that overcast environment, or there isn’t enough bounce on the underside details. Maybe the lichen is just missing subsurface which would help a lot.

So i did put a HDRI image of a cloudy sky with a giant dark cloud in the middle to have the gradient sky you mentioned on my Skybox. I also bumped up specularity by tenth and I did notice huge differences which is great however I’m still missing alot of detail on darker materials.

So heres some screenshots of my scene:

Overal scene with world settings on the right

The rock normal is working good for now (Spec: 0.1), maybe because of lighter basecolor?

However i have problem with a table that I textured in Substance painter. Here’s how it looks with different specular levels:

Heres how the table look in Substance painter (how i was hoping to look like in UE4)

My skylight settings:

And finally my skybox: