I'm pretty sure most of us have encountered that annoying light mapping issue where you get odd shadows around patches of sunlight when there shouldn't be any light there, for example a door projecting the shadow of its frame but a patch of light as if the sun is coming through the doorway even when the door is closed. This is something to do with walls/doors etc needing to be a minimum thickness for the light mapper to work.

Well, today I was wandering around outside work when I noticed that the real life light mapper is broken too, note in the pictures below how my shadow is a different direction to the building shadows, and how there are patches of light in the wall shadow as if the sun is shining through them, but that would mean the sun should be inside the building.




I know what's caused it, it's basically the sun reflecting off of the windows at the perfect angle and intensity, but it looked so much like the light mapping issues we have I just had to take a picture and share it with you guys, had a good old chuckle when I saw it.

Looks like the GameGuru light mapper is more realistic than we thought!

LOL, those are great examples, and like you said, GG's lightmapper may truly be more realistic than we thought!

But, then again, perhaps we all live in somebody else's artificial world, playing the greatest fps ever!

EDIT: I guess that would actually be the most massive morpg ever conceived!

those are some very realistic screenshots from within GG, looking forward to seeing the full game

Lol

The Truman Show ?


3com

There used to be a thread on polycount of some such 3D fanatic forum where they'd show real photographs showing things they'd never get away with in a 3D presentation or game. This is such a thing



-Wolf

And Lee is the special effects director?

lol

this so called "life" has a very stupid plot but the graphics are kinda good.

Its funny if you look at the shot of you taking the photo your shadow is a lot darker ....
If it was like that in GameGuru there would Uproar

Yup, that's because my shadow is real shadow (the sun is behind me), the "shadow" on the ground is actually the natural ground lighting, and the "gaps" in the ground shadow is actually reflected light. It's weird how perception can be altered by shadow and light.