Has anyone ever come across lighting schemes for threejs (or just 3d applications in general I guess)? I appriciate most of the time you will tailer your lights to the specific objects and materials, but im looking to create common set ups of lights (colours, types etc) that give the scene a differ…

I asked a similar question on Twitter recently: https://twitter.com/donrmccurdy/status/925394545109377024 … most feedback was to use IBL. :slight_smile:

I thought i may have been asking a really daft question, so im glad im no the only one. Did you get anywhere with it? I shall have a look into IBL, all new stuff to me and very interesting. I guess I could have a range of “studio” images/environments. excuse my ignorance but does this get rid of…

I’m not an expert but I’ve landed on a combination of normal lights and an environment map . You can see the result on https://gltf-viewer.donmccurdy.com/ .

I think it depends a lot on the scene and the mood you are trying to create. If you want to illuminate everything in the scene - I think a directional (sun) light is a good choice, and to avoid completely black areas you typically would add some ambient (flat) light. When it comes to more advanced l…

@donmccurdy is there a reason for adding the ambient light to the camera?

Heh no, that’s a mistake. :sweat_smile:

@donmccurdy , that looks good, I especially like your radial gradient background, was that done using this? One thing though, it doesnt seem as though the environment has any impact on lighting of the model ?

the environment does affect lighting, especially with an HDR texture (see settings dropdown) you can turn all other lighting off and still see something pretty nice: [17%20AM] I mostly just used env maps from the three.js source, haven’t spent too much time polishing there.

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also @donmccurdy, I started another questoni here, i dont suppose you have any thoughts on that? It maybe worth you taking a look at sketch fab as they seem to have options for the lighting nailed

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