Hey, hey GFX designers!
I saw a lot of people were wondering about how to make good GFX lighting and I decided to make tutorial about it. My lighting isn’t super professional, but pretty decent. Here is an example of it:
It looks pretty soft, has nice colors and looks volume. If you want to learn how to make some lighting like this, continue to read this tutorial.
Note: this tutorial is only about lighting for Roblox GFXs, nothing more, if you want me to make another tutorial, reply to this topic or DM me.
So let’s start. First thing you should do is make character’s parts smooth. Yeah, it affects on render too.
1. Disable Auto Smooth and remove Subdivision Surface.
Auto Smooth enabled:
Auto Smooth disabled:
You can see that now shadows and glares look right and soft. Next we should remove Subdivision Surface Modifier or something similar if you have it.
Check if your modifier on body parts have this:
If it does I recommend you to delete it by pressing “x” at the right top corner, but it’s up to you.
With Subdivision Surface:
Without Subdivision Surface:
2. Make background fully black.
Pretty simple step, all you have to do is make background black like this:
3. Add Planes with Emission material and set up them.
Okay, so you totally will need just two planes. Move and resize them similar to this:
You should make them invisible in Camera. You can disable visiblity here:
You can move them later if that will be needed. Now create material for one of them and setup like this:
If that will be needed you also can set up “Strenght” later. If you want second plane to have another color, make material with same Strengh, but different color. In this tutorial I will use same material.
4. Add more Metallic and set up character’s nodes.
The last main step. Open character’s material nodes and set up selected materials like this:
Now let’s check how will it look like in preview render:
As you can see it’s too bright, to avoid it you can make Strenght of Planes’ material lower. Now it looks decent:
Let me also show you how will it look with two different colors:
I showed you base of GFX lighting. If you have any questions or issues reply on this post. Show your GFX by tagging me on DevForum or Twitter (@Lie_StarIsChill). I’m gonna give you some positive feedbacks or retweet. Feedbacks on my first tutorial are very appreciated. Characters used: @i5k, @Pashanskiy. Goodluck! 
