[DEPRECATED] Ray-Traced Global Illumination Plugin | Make your lighting look Incredible!

mostbootifulgirlever · July 22, 2021, 1:14am

well in that case it will work. but the thing is there are 2 problems:

FPS
Half of the rays will just go into the void, wasting calculations

omgcchheeessee · July 22, 2021, 1:15am

why would half of the rays go into the void? How do you avoid this?

mostbootifulgirlever · July 22, 2021, 1:16am

You cant unless the emitters are in a closed room.

IdontPlayz343 · July 23, 2021, 10:27pm

One question, how do you use the light based tinting option? Whenever I use it it just shows up as white, even though the light is a different color.

mostbootifulgirlever · July 27, 2021, 4:13am

Sadly this is not supported yet but may be in the future!

loopisdedz · July 30, 2021, 1:45pm

Holy schneitzel, that is too real.

Godplayer_xpx · July 31, 2021, 3:04pm

I don’t know how to use this and don’t understand the thing.

LeMacximus · July 31, 2021, 3:19pm

I tried it out but it’s not working. I selected the objects with lights then I pressed bake lighting and nothing changed, what went wrong?

Godplayer_xpx · July 31, 2021, 3:19pm

I think because the angle is 0.

LeMacximus · July 31, 2021, 6:37pm

Alright, i’ll try again with a different angle

Edit:

The angles are already set to 180 so I’m not sure how to fix the issue

Godplayer_xpx · July 31, 2021, 6:48pm

Press bake lights… maybe it COULD work.

anon53193547 · July 31, 2021, 8:08pm

You guys are using it all wrong Haha. Here is a quote of how to use it.

mostbootifulgirlever:

How to Use

This plugin can be a bit confusing to use so I’ll go over on how to use it.

Light Emitters:
The are the main object the plugin uses to calculate light bounces. Making this plugin using a separate object allows for full customization. When baking the lighting the plugin will look at every Light Emitters and depending on the position and orientation of each Emitter, light rays will emitted and bounce around the scene until they hit the max bounce limit (which is 2).

Interface:

Bake Lighting: Will bake the lighting and render the final result (Will make all Light Emitters Invisible)

Add GI Emitters to All Lights: Currently disabled at the moment

Add GI Emitters to Selected: Will add 1 Light Emitter on all 6 faces of a object that is selected and rotate them to face all directions

Add GI Emitter: Will insert a Light Emitter (This is used for manually editing GI. This is recommended over using "Add GI Emitters to Selected")

Undo Global Illumination: Reverts "Bake Lighting" and allows you to edit the Light Emitters again

Delete All Emitters: Destroys every Light Emitter (Use with caution)

Settings:
Intensity: The brightness of the GI when Baked

Light Based Tinting: This allows for colored Global Illumination. By default the plugin assumes you have no colored lights and only goes off the colors of the objects in the scene.

Here's a Comparison between Light Based Tinting on and off:

Off:

On:

Red:

Although this option can be useful it will DESTROY performance due to the extra calculations and double the amount of lights. To enable this you have to set the "Tinted" Value inside of a Light Emitter to true then set the "tint" value to your desired color (These steps are automatically applied when using "Add GI Emitters to Selected").

TheDarth_Dot · July 31, 2021, 9:08pm

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LeMacximus · July 31, 2021, 11:10pm

I still don’t understand how to make it work for some reason

Maybe I need a demonstration like a video

IdontPlayz343 · July 31, 2021, 11:13pm

Select the part with the light in it, click [add GI emitters to selected], then click [bake lighting].

LeMacximus · July 31, 2021, 11:15pm

I followed your instructions but I didn’t see any changes to the lighting

IdontPlayz343 · July 31, 2021, 11:18pm

Is it a bright outdoors build? If it is, it won’t change much. Also are you using the future lighting engine? This thing is basically built for it.

LeMacximus · July 31, 2021, 11:21pm

Yes I’m using the future lighting and it’s an interior scene.

IdontPlayz343 · July 31, 2021, 11:22pm

Hmm. Can you send a screenshot then? Maybe a video of you going through the process?

LeMacximus · July 31, 2021, 11:24pm

Alright. It looks like this:

It’s a garage scene with cars and I turned down the ambient color.