Sun Temple – Relight

This is a relighting of the Sun Temple project from the Epic Games Store I worked on during week 3 as part of The Art of Lighting for Games course with Peter Tran and Omar Gatica at CGMA. As always the goal was to start from a level without any lights, add a skydome and lights. Lighting dark or twilight scenes were always a challenge for me as an artist. Prior to this course I also hadn’t much experience lighting scenes at this level of quality so the challenge was double. For this scene I was aiming for a twilight scene with a clear sky and a bright full moon.

God rays without using volumetrics for performance reasons is something I like to use whenever possible as well as LUTs since they add consistency and help so much with the overall atmosphere.