help in Lighting my model "Ship Next Day"

#1

hi all

i have finished modeling Ship Next Day which is an application on Digital Tutors Introduction to XSI 7 , i want to put it on an area like shown down

what is the Settings of the Lighting that give a Result like the first Plane ?

if any one have a textures like the ground in the previous plane?

this is my model

thanks in advance

#2

You can use an area light to get that effect - or set up the physical sun and sky.

#3

Hi Belal.
Lookin cool!
Cant help you with the lighting in xsi but there are some great textures over at cgtextures.com for free.

Keep it a going man
Cheerio Chris

#4

blarq : Thanx for helping

Chris : thanks dude! :blush: i’ll start rendering the model

#5

I would like to see your progress, so maybe you can post it here. Also I have thought about the sun setup and I am not so sure any more if what I said earlier is right. I do not know if you would actually get that soft a shadow, I havent used physical sun myself.

#6

Well here’s a simple setup with a set of basic lights. It’s not exactly right but pretty close I think. Something to work from anyway.

But really there’s a lot of ways to approach something like this. Image based, final gather etc… So this is just one simple setup.

As well you might need to mix this with an ambient occlusion pass to get that fine detail depending how detailed the model is itself vs. the little cracks and dark bits being part of the texture.

This scene uses a number of infinite lights for that yellowish light and a single point area light for the soft shadow. The shadow is a bit grainy… if you want do reduce that you have to up the samples. Change the area scale to increase or decrease the amount of softness at the edges. Scene was saved with xsi7

#7

Nice ship Bill.
You have a very good base shape and I think you can build on that as it looks like it could use a lot more detail.

Keep it up man:buttrock:
Cheerio Chris

#8

Chris : Hey Chris :slight_smile: i’m training more and more in XSI and also Zbrush now i’m working on a project in xsi, soon you will see it ,thanks dude :wink:

blarq : thank you!
svero : thanks :slight_smile:

Bill

#9

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