How to achieve such lighting effect

#1

Hello everybodey,
how to achieve such lighting effect:

notice how each brick has 2 flat colors, and in the shadow part it affected by very strong skylight.
also ther is tiny outlines, and soft shadow.

Main problem is shadow over toon shader.

Any ideas?

#2

You should write about software You use.
Basically you can get this effect in 3ds max default Sacanline renderer.

  1. how each brick has 2 flat colors - Just set Ink&Paint shader
  2. shadow part it affected by very strong skylight - in Light options find shadow color and set it to blue.
  3. also ther is tiny outlines - You can also set it in Ink&Paint shader
  4. and soft shadow - Advanced Lighting and Light trace.

Off course it depends witch software are you using.

#3

Thank you for your reply!

> You should write about software You use.
Right now I’m using 3ds max 2011 + VRay 2
but if it is better to use something else, I can give it a try

> Basically you can get this effect in 3ds max default Sacanline renderer.
> 1. how each brick has 2 flat colors - Just set Ink&Paint shader
> 2. shadow part it affected by very strong skylight - in Light options find shadow color and set it to blue.
> 3. also ther is tiny outlines - You can also set it in Ink&Paint shader
> 4. and soft shadow - Advanced Lighting and Light trace.

I alrady tryed this way
the problem with Ink&Paint is that it’s colors don’n affected by lighting and environment color.
notice how each brick on picture has 3 colors 1)light grey highlight 2)grey light 3)blue shadow

with Ink&Paint it is possible to make first 2 colors, but how to make blue shadow on brick itself

p.s. sorry my english

#4

The soft shadow looks to me to be an AO pass with a high search distance setting. An AO pass will be ALOT faster than the light tracer.

Regards,
Mike

#5

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