Lighting, Shadows and World Illumination – GameFromScratch.com

This can be a informal, barely unstructured tutorial protecting the duty of lighting within the Godot 4.x (Godot 4.2 particularly on this instance) sport engine. We cowl subjects together with lighting and shadows, world atmosphere, emissive textures, international illumination and extra. The tutorial is video solely and makes use of belongings from the GameMasters Toolkit: Property and Tutorials Humble Bundle exported from Unreal Engine. You possibly can be taught extra in regards to the means of exporting from Unreal Engine to Godot or Blender right here.

The demo additionally showcases an emissive texture animated over time. That is accomplished utilizing GDScript with a Tween utilizing the next code:

func _ready():
    var tween = get_tree().create_tween()
    var materials = self.get_active_material(1);
    tween.tween_property(materials, "emission_energy_multiplier",10.0,0.5).set_trans(Tween.TRANS_BOUNCE)
    tween.set_loops(0)

A tough timeline of the video is as follows:

• 0:00 Intro and overview
• 0:43 Exporting the scene from Unreal Engine to Blender
• 2:00 Normal lighting in Godot 4.x – The Completed Outcomes
• 3:24 Creating a brand new venture and importing the scene
• 5:25 Fixing an emissive texture in Godot
• 6:38 Emissive textures in Godot
• 7:34 Omni Lights, DirectionalLights and SpotLights in Godot
• 9:44 Making a SpotLight in Godot
• 10:42 WorldEnvironment introduction
• 11:24 Toggling default atmosphere and lighting settings in Godot
• 12:05 Creating a brand new WorldEnvironment
• 12:46 Making a Sky
• 13:14 Organising Tone Mapping
• 14:14 SDFGI – Signed Distance Area World Illumination or DynamicGI
• 15:25 Mild coloration and shadows
• 16:21 VoxelGI or baked international illumination
• 18:24 Different WorldEnvironment Settings
• 19:51 Ambient Lighting
• 21:25 Overview and recap

You possibly can take a look at all the 25 minute lengthy Godot 4.x lighting tutorial within the video under.