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rsalonen

03-02-2002, 04:13 AM

Hi everyone!

I got this scene I'm working where the camera is in a pretty dark room pointing to a door. The door should be half open and lead to the outside where the sun shines. What I want to do is that effect that when you just open a door from a being in a dark room all you see is white strong light, until your eyes got used to the light.
How would I make that kind of light fomr the door?

Would be very appreciated if someone could give me a little tip on this :)

SheepFactory

03-02-2002, 04:44 AM

you can key the lights color and intensity ; from white and high to blueish and lower.

make sure that you also have another light in the room to simulate the bouncing light effect.

hope that helps

A|i

rsalonen

03-02-2002, 05:16 AM

Thanks for the tip, I shall try it as soon as possible.
I hope it works :)

psumo

03-02-2002, 08:19 AM

for reference check this out

http://www.blizzard.com/war3/movies/

it's got an opening of the door scene with the same effect

rsalonen

03-02-2002, 03:09 PM

Yes yes, exacly like that....thou that movie is made with Max, but ofcourse it can be made in Maya, somehow...still have to prepare the scene before I will try out any lightning.

psumo

03-06-2002, 07:03 AM

I think a better approach rather than key framing the lighting
is to use the glow parameter in the shader and key that up and down

Deepray

03-10-2002, 06:49 AM

:) i think like you psumo. other way is to make it in postproducction, with your favorite composing program, with a mask. here you can play with "levels" to make the room more dark or ligth when you see outside the door.

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