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games, has always been a difficult problem. Rendering convincing participating media for real time applications, e.g. Talk by Sebastien Hillaire at SIGGRAPH 2015 in the Advances in Real-time Rendering course. THE ENGINE THE TEAM GAMES NEWS JOB OPENINGS THE ENGINE THE TEAM GAMES NEWS JOB OPENINGS Frostbite Physically-based & Unified Volumetric Rendering You should only disable this option if you expect to composite and effectively replace the volumetric effect where the environment is.Physically-based & Unified Volumetric Rendering in Frostbite - Frostbite You can clearly see the artifacts caused by disabling the option in the preview window of Softimage, where anti-aliasing produces 'halos' of alpha values between 0 and 1. The example below shows a light volume over a black environment with an alpha of 0. This is because alpha pre-multiplied output can make the volumetric effect disappear in areas where the alpha is not 1 or 0. The 'Environment Alpha Replace' option replaces environment alpha with 1. For this reason, Redshift has this contribution turned off by default. Applying volumetric lighting on GI computations can wash out the results, produce noise (especially if strong phase settings are used) and be computationally intensive. GIĭefines how much fogging and volumetric lighting should be applied to any GI lighting. Horizon Blurĭefines how much fogging and volumetric lighting should be applied to rays that were spawned from refractions or transparency.
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Reflectionĭefines how much fogging and volumetric lighting should be applied to rays that were spawned from reflection. Cameraĭefines how much fogging and volumetric lighting should be applied to rays that hit scene objects. Ray Contribution Scales Environmentĭefines how much fogging and volumetric lighting should be applied to rays that don't hit anything and go to infinity. Instead of the default (0, 1, 0) ground normal, we used a (0, 0, 1) setting instead. See example images below.Īdjusting the fog plane to create a wall of fog. Using this setting you can create a 'wall of fog' instead of a 'blanket of fog'. If using height fog, this setting determines the direction of the fog. If using height fog, this setting determines where the fogging effect starts. The horizon blur setting allows the height fog's horizon to be faded out which will smooth out the effect. Even though "correct" this effect is not visually appealing. When using height fog on a large-scale scene, there might be a sharp shading line where the fog joins the horizon. Same as last image but with a lower attenuation value
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We show some forward scattering examples below. On the other hand, negative numbers will produce "backward scattering' which means that volumetric lighting will mostly be visible as it travels away from the camera. Forward scattering means the lighting doesn't bounce around in the medium as much and is mostly visible when travelling towards the camera.
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Values greater than 0.0 produce what is known as "forward scattering". In some ways, this setting is similar to the "Diffuse/Specular" settings of a surface material.Ī phase of 0.0 means that the lighting will bounce around more and will appear more diffuse. The "Phase" parameter controls how much the lighting will bounce around inside the medium and get scattered. This is intentional! Because these lights are at an infinite distance, any amount of attenuation (which is dependent on distance) would completely block them out. Dome lights, the physical sun and infinite lights will not be attenuated. Lighting attenuation only happens for non-infinite lights. Higher numbers introduce stronger fogging and more light attenuation. AttenuationĬontrols both the strength of the fog and the amount by which light gets attenuated as it travels through the medium. If you enable volumetric scattering and you get a completely washed-out-white frame, you might need to reduce this setting significantly. Higher values will generate brighter volumetric lighting and vice-versa. Toggles the volumetric scattering effect (fog and volumetric lighting) on/off TintĪ global tint for all volumetric lighting effects (this doesn't include global fog) Scatteringĭefines how strong the volumetric lighting effect should be. The Volumetric Scattering effect options are located in the Redshift ROP node, Redshift tab: