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UDK Lighting & Post Processing - An Introduction and Application
In this DVD, Dave Prout and Jim Magill go through Lighting and Post Processing in UDK. Together they use over 27 years of combined professional experience to deliver not only great instruction but also many practical applications when putting the final touches on your levels.
Like many of our other DVDs, this video is target for both professionals and those who are just starting to use Unreal Development Kit.
About the Instructors:
Dave Prout co-founded Spark Unlimited which became an award-winning game developer with 120 employees over 5 years. Since then he has been working with UDK to create games and continues making games to this day. Make sure to check out Dave's regularly updated website www.daveprout.com.
Jim Magill has been working in games not too long after he graduated art college in 1996. Since then he contributed to many popular games such as Theif 3 and Deus Ex 2. Jim has been using Unreal Editor 3 for the last 5 years and is currently working on DCUO at Sony Online.
Like many of our other DVDs, this video is target for both professionals and those who are just starting to use Unreal Development Kit.
About the Instructors:
Dave Prout co-founded Spark Unlimited which became an award-winning game developer with 120 employees over 5 years. Since then he has been working with UDK to create games and continues making games to this day. Make sure to check out Dave's regularly updated website www.daveprout.com.
Jim Magill has been working in games not too long after he graduated art college in 1996. Since then he contributed to many popular games such as Theif 3 and Deus Ex 2. Jim has been using Unreal Editor 3 for the last 5 years and is currently working on DCUO at Sony Online.
Apps Used:
Unreal Development Kit (UDK). You can download it free HERE.
Duration:
3.5 Hours
Instructor:
DL Filesize:
Video Files: 724 MB - Project Files: 375 MB
Project Files:
Included is the final Unreal maps and packages.
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Video Chapters - Click Images for HighRes Version
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00 Introduction
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01-01 Post Processing Overvie...
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01-02 Local Volumes
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01-03 Dept of Field
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01-04 Motion Blur
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01-05 Ambient Occlusion
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01-06 Material Effects
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02-01 Lighting Introduction
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02-02 Lighting Channels
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02-03 Excusivity
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02-04 Light Parameters
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02-05 Composite Dynamic
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02-06 Shadow Quality
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02-07 Lightmapping
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02-08 Light Functions
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02-09 Lightmass
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03-01 Introducion
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03-02 Importance Volumes
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03-03 Sphere Lighting
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03-04 Reports
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03-05 Emissive Lighting
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03-06 Ceiling Lights
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03-07 Spotlight
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03-08 AO & Directional
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03-09 Fog & Post
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03-10 Final Touches
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Riki
Thanks kyle.rau! Also I agree that the 2 DVDs are very different and when you have different instructors the end result will be sometimes vastly different. We put a ton of effort in marketing each release in a way that reflects the content as much as possible. We do that so hopefully you know exactly what you are getting before you buy it. Hopefully we can continue to improve on this front and I hope you still have a positive opinion about Eat 3D's DVDs.
kyle.rau
Here's my 2 cents guys
This DVD was by far one of the best DVD's I've ever watched. It not only goes over the lighting history in UDK and "where all the buttons are" but also gives you a good walk through of lighting a whole scene from start to finish. I really enjoyed the light relationships section, since I'm a Maya user I rely on the light linking. This was a perfect eye-opener for lighting in a a real time engine. The coverage for UDK's GI system was exceptional. I would recommend this DVD to anyone who is comfortable with lighting in Maya/Max/etc because that background would definitely help in any lighting case. Also, the fact that this DVD includes the whole scene at the end was shocking! I was able to dig through his scene, see all the settings, and learn from it. I learned so much from tinkering around the scene for a couple hours. I would say the scene alone is worth that price! I mean how often do you get to pick apart an industry professional's files to learn from? This DVD has gave me more than a head start on lighting a small scene I'm working on in UDK. Bottom line is: If you want to learn real time lighting in UDK, this DVD is gold.
Froyok
From Riki : "Did you like the Intro to UDK better? Just curious how you would compare them."
-Yep, I found the hourences' tutorial very comprehensive despite the fact that reviews the UDK in general. For example, some items on which the details would have been interesting is the performance level of lighting, lightmaps for example. And more details on the lights function. In fact I liked not only an explanation of the tool, but also an explanation of the play of light and color contrasts (another example).
In his tutorial, Hourences gives various tips and tricks, is the interest of a tutorial made by a person in the business of video games: learn and have the most interesting and most especially adapted to the world of video games. In this tutorial have had anything like that I feel.
I do a lot of tests on the lighting since the release of the UDK, so I expected things to progress, and I felt they had a presentation here. Anyway the tutorial is good.
Maybe I expected too much from this tutorial in fact...
metalliandy
Personally I found the entire tutorial to be extremely detailed, very informative and well executed.
I have never really a great deal of experience with lighting in UE (apart from the standard 2 or 3 point setup) so i actually learned a great deal about the entire lighting system within Unreal.
To have such a depth of information on the history of lighting in one place is really useful as Dave explained really well about the legacy lighting and what was improved upon those to create what we have now in UDK...so not only do i know what to use and when, i know why too.
Jims scene is outstanding and IMHO is worth the price of the tutorial alone...to have such detailed map that has been lit by such an experienced artist and to have him take you through all the steps is more than i could have asked for.
Riki
Hi Froyok. Thanks for the purchase! Sorry you didnt find it as useful as you expected. Did you like the Intro to UDK better? Just curious how you would compare them.
Personally I really enjoyed this one because I am so interested in lighting. Dave Prout was very informative and technical while Jim Magill was much more on the practical art side. Another good thing is you get the full scene to re-light and we would love to see any examples in the forum.
Froyok
I am very disappointed, for that price I expected a very thorough explanation. Instead, it is entitled to a magnificent scene, some effects quickly explained, but few details.
I liked this tutorial pay 50% less expensive for what it is.
Still I have noticed two or three interesting information, but it remains rare and too global.
Anonymous
Thanks for taking your time to help us all out.
Anonymous
This looks absolutely amazing and I really can't wait to get my hands on it!
Anonymous
really looking forward to this!
Riki
Yeah it will apply to this release
kyle.rau
WOW! this is literally what i've been needed the past couple days! lighting and post processing is such a rare topic most of the time! definitely stoked on this. does the UDN discount work with this too?
Riki
Yeah, sorry about that. I updated it to avoid confusion. Thanks mate!
JackyBoy
Just for clarification for us English, it's Estimated release is 5th of April right? not may?
This one I am really looking forward to
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