Lighting the Environment

The basics of placing lights into levels and setting them up.

Light Mobility and how it affects lighting and shadowing.

The types of lights available in Unreal Engine 4.

High level overview of shadows.

In this guide you will create and light a small apartment using different types of lighting technqiues.

A run down of all the features and settings of Lightmass.

System for capturing and displaying local glossy reflections.

Cached indirect lighting samples used for global illumination of dynamic objects and unbuilt scene preview.

A completely static light that has no overhead during a running game.

Light type that can change its color and brightness at runtime but cannot move, rotate or change influence size.

A fully dynamic light capable of changing all of its properties during runtime.

Lighting projected using a Material as the source.

System for dynamically generating global illumination.

Dynamic Ambient Occlusion for Movable SkyLights.

Dynamic area shadows

Approximation of attenuation of light due to occlusion.

Simulating light scattered in the atmosphere.

Cubemap texture applied to scene lighting for high quality lighting environments.

Explanation of how translucent surfaces are lit and cast shadows including self-shadows.

How to achieve bump mapping from 3D procedural shaders where classic tangent space does not work.

Using IES Light Profiles in Unreal Engine 4.