Street Lamp

[Fingernail]

It could do with a glow around the lamp itself, and I'm not too sure about the scale right now, but I did make a projected light texture with the lamp bars as soft fuzzy shadows, and it looks quite nice atm.

[sparhawk]

Looks good, but it definitely should have a glow. It looks a bit clean without it.

[BlackThief]

can we plze have a bigger screen with a little more contrast to the background? It's kinda hard to see anything of the lamp on that shot.

[Fingernail]

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[Springheel]

I'm not sure what the problem is, but it looks very odd at the moment. Is that a low-res shot? It looks like it's absorbing all the light and that the texture isn't appearing in some places.

[Fingernail]

it needs more fake ambient on the texture, I'll work on it.

[Springheel]

It looks like it needs a much brighter specular (if models have such things). Also, the glow of the glass panes shouldn't be a flat yellow. It should be brighter at the bottom than it is at the top, like this:

 

 

If you do that it probably won't need a glow/corona.

[Springheel]

Any progress on this?

[Fingernail]

I changed the glass to real refracting glass and stuck a particle effect flame in. Not looking bad, but I need to scale the particle effect somehow, it's too large.

 

Screenshots later.

[Springheel]

Bah. I wish people wouldn't get so wrapped up in the transparent glass bit. Real streetlamps at the time did not have transparent glass, that's what gives them the cool yellow-orange glow effect. It's not the flame that does it, it's the colour of the glass.

[New Horizon]

Bah. I wish people wouldn't get so wrapped up in the transparent glass bit. Real streetlamps at the time did not have transparent glass, that's what gives them the cool yellow-orange glow effect. It's not the flame that does it, it's the colour of the glass.

 

 

I agree, I really enjoy the colored glass effect. It just gives them a warmth that the effects can't replicate.

[Fingernail]

yeah but this way we can make the glass really cloudy and STILL have that effect, except it'd be kind of 3D and animated too, just wait and see.