How to do realistic lighting?

[ProvenData (John)]

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More realistic lighting?

Ok DevForum, I was wondering if there was a more realistic lighting other than voxxel. Granted It’s very good but it doesn’t perform as a natural light would. It doesn’t really do much more than darken and shade. I want something like Rock Star games would have. If anyone knows a more realistic lighting system or set up please let me know. I know I can add sunrays blur and all that but they just don’t seem to capture what I’m looking for. Video game example: [Example]

How to make your lighting more realistic in shadowmap

Hey everyone, I’ve been spending a lot of my time recently working on lighting within shadowmap trying to find different styles and atmospheres for certain games, with that said in this tutorial I’ll show you how I create lighting for my own games and how you can create similar lighting in your own game, without any baking or scripting. Here are some examples of what the lighting should look like upon completion of the tutorial: [image] To begin we want to open up our scene/game and simply ch…