How do I get lighting inside a ViewPortFrame, to match the lighting in the real world?

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#1

Hello Fellow Dev Forumers,

How do I get lighting inside a ViewPortFrame, to match the lighting in the real world?

I have been trying to create a portal-like system, but ran into the issue of ViewPortFrame contents, and workspace contents, look very different lighting wise. I already have tried messing with the Lighting of the world, and ViewPortFrame’s with no success.

The way light performs inside a ViewPortFrame is so different than game lighting, which make it hard to make the two look similar.

Examples of what I am talking about:

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When you are looking into the doorway, which is a ViewPortFrame, you see a slight difference in lighting which ruins the effect.

Same issue when looking out through the doorway:

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I did some digging, and found a few posts pertaining to this same subject. However, they were quite old, and I was wondering if there is a new solution to this problem.

Anyone got any ideas?

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#2

Sadly, according to this wiki page [Very end, notes/performance], the lighting is currently fixed so we can’t customize it just yet.

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#3

Thanks for the response. Yes, I know this already. My question was more, how do we get around this with our current ViewPortFrame capabilities. What strategies can we use to get as close as possible?

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#4

Set Brightness very low, use Compatibility instead of Future or ShadowMap

Those will make the world have flat lighting like a VPF, after that just tweak colors

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#6

Hey, any way to do it without having to change any lighting?

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#7

best i can think of is just repeatedly getting all light sources and cloning the parent part if its not a attachment else have a part at the root and clone it to the same cframe as the worldcframe of the actual one

#8

how is this possible? It clearly works on your video but i cant replicate it. How can you render the model even though it’s not parented to the viewport frame?

PD: I know its from 2020 but you are quite active. I’ve seen you a few times in recent posts.

#9

Here is a post talking about the final result of the project that prompted me to write this post.

Here is also a place that I open sourced that showcases this mechanic:
https://www.roblox.com/games/5498885947/Non-Euclidean-Mechanics-Open-Source#!/about

Hopefully you can see how this works by looking at the source.

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you might want to fix this because it ruins the illusion

#11

What is it that you think ruins the illusion? It looks fine to me from that screenshot.

#12

when you move around the camera moves and it the part looks wider than it should heres a video of it A - YouTube

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