DAT 552 Virtuality & Immersion Journal Collections

”Using the ‘Light Baking for VR Performance”

                                                         ***Day 13 (17/11/22)***

Definition of Light Baking

It is a technique used to optimise the lighting quality of the scene and Realtime 3D environments.
Light baking requires meshes to be lightmap unwrapped. It uses a separate UV channel and Multiple large lightmaps that should be avoided.

Benefits of using Light Baking:

Light Baking has good benefits. They can perform well on low spec hardware like Virtual Reality.
It can bake some ambient light and Realtime light such as Photorealistic. In the games, it uses a mix lighting.
Baking and Rendering is better than retracing the light that goes down.

Drawbacks of using Light Baking:

Baking a light takes so long/hours to render, which depends on the quality and scale. The more progress you take, the larger it is. It’s not compatible with Lumin/Nanite and method if you’re using Unreal Engine.
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=WORKSHOP CLASS DAY TASK PART 2=

During the half hour of Workshop task, the Lecturer reviewed my project plan with moodboards, storyboards and character model and he gave me a feedback for suggestions, which are listed down below:

All Feedbacks Listed:

Expand the Story
Make them Roundy
The Problem is the Story
This project identifies as a PC Production project using Unreal Engine
It needs to have either a short story film or whatsoever
It needs to improve your 3D Film Production with VR.
The last feedback of all is that the Lecturer recommend me to study more of the Immersive Videos as a way to gain new ideas for narration.
An example video on the right is about a short film of the Fox and the Mouse, which is really wonderful to observe their speechless but an action narrative interactive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkepTxmzC1M