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Media surfaces + Global Illumination = AWESOME!

Lex4art

July 25, 2017 19:43

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The idea is simple: create large enough media surface, assign colorful Youtube video to it and enable Global Illumination in Experience settings. After publishing process there will be really impressive effect - Global illumination will propagate light everywhere from that youtube video on media surface, changing in real time! Here is how it looks:

Did this for my map "City park" but unfortunately got tons of Global illumination artifacts :( and this cool feature did not present in final version of my Experience *yet*:

But if it's working fine enough for you - use it, artifacts may not appear or be in moderate amount. Have fun! :)

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  Tyler Scarborough July 25, 2017 19:47

  OMG DAts AWESOME !  So many ideas for this =D 

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  Jenn July 25, 2017 19:53

  Yes! We were screaming from excitement about this in the office!

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  Teager July 25, 2017 20:34

  Love it!

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  JCat July 25, 2017 23:17

  Ambilight on steroids! That's some great examples!

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  Torley - Sansar August 07, 2017 15:13

  Lex4Art!

  This is way cool. I've visited before but I had to revisit, and there are several things I'd like to mention:

  • I like how you use the description as a revision changelog to show what's new.
  • The vibe is really neat, walking through a futuristic cyberpunk city at night...
  • Neat work with the "WELCOME" message at the beginning. Did it take a lot of trial and error to get the camera positioning spot-on?

  I have a couple audio suggestions that go hand-in-hand:

  • Ambient street sounds are kind of loud, relatively speaking. (Try voice chatting with friends to see.) You could soften them somewhat and lose none of the impact.
  • Now that we have audio volumes (cuboids and spheres), I'd recommend using those instead of the "background sound" spot, because then it'll sound like the ambience is coming from within your scene and rotate accordingly with the camera. Try it and hear the difference!
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  Lex4art August 07, 2017 15:20

  >>Neat work with the "WELCOME" message at the beginning. Did it take a lot of trial and error to get the camera positioning spot-on?

  Yes, and it's still doesn't match center of the screen XD

  Suggestions for ambient - will try that, thanks. Currently there is no point of reference about "is it too quiet or too loud", but better quiet than annoying & loud I guess ).

  Upd: Done ).

  Edited by Lex4art August 07, 2017 16:55