A fell "mistakes" i found in the lighting on the new summoner's rif

XavorTM·11/7/2014, 5:23:18 PM·8 votes·6,408 views

Summoner’s Riff weird lighting..

So i was browsing today the interactive map of the summoner’s riff and i noticed a few issues:

**Image 01: **- http://imageshack.com/a/img743/337/Z5yeNb.png The red arrow show the light comming from the sun i suppose passing trought the trees on the left. (the arrow is the direction) Usually, thats not how it should work the light, but thats not important since the game is about looking good ant IT IS looking badass awesome, but the weird thing is how the shadow are diferent. The sun is shining from top right (you can see the green fields on top left of the map) but the shadow of the towers is opposite - the blue line.

Image 02: http://imageshack.com/a/img901/8273/lA2QeD.png Athought, the shadow of the towers is weird, the one from all creatures seems almoust right (at least in right direction, thought the angle isnt, but i its fine for aestetics)

Image 03: http://imageshack.com/a/img673/2294/jQKMpC.png Another interesting thing that cought my eye is that the highlight is on the right while the light is comming from the left. I am not great in drawing or physics, but this doesnt seem normal to me.

This is not hating at all, i just want to show a few things that really bother me everytime i see them.

14 Comments

RiotRiotForScience11/7/2014, 6:40:28 PM22 votes

So I told our VFX guy, he pointed out that these effects are called "god-rays" and are therefore infallible.

jk he is working on it

RiotRiotForScience11/7/2014, 6:38:03 PM8 votes

Good Find, I will forward that along.

XavorTM11/7/2014, 6:15:25 PM6 votes

I have pretty good things to do with my life and i am doing them. Iwas just browsing the map and thig bothered me. Why is all this hate from you? And stop being nitpicky? Well... does that really bother you, am i making your life harder somehow? If you dont like it then just ignore, there is no real use of your comment here. If you think small details are not importnat, then i believe you have no idea what make actual drawing good. THE SMALLD DETAILS

Gapybo11/7/2014, 6:12:42 PM4 votes

Stop being so damn nitpicky. Seriously don't you have anything better to do with your life?

dialMARK4acti0n11/7/2014, 5:38:38 PM2 votes

Good eye or should I say... HAWKEYE! Ba-dum-tss

Kerrigan 4 Prez11/7/2014, 10:33:57 PM2 votes

Ducks are for eating not fighting. Besides who would want to sucker punch a duck.

Conncept11/7/2014, 5:53:52 PM1 votes

The highlight on the back side is called bounce light. Basically any light source will shoot past the object it is lighting, reflect off of the ground plane and other objects, and create a small highlight midst the shadow on the back side.

Admittedly that is a bit strong though. Bounce light is usually really really subtle.

EDIT: Well also, they could just be cheating and using three point lighting over the natural light. Three point lighting is a hollywood standard of how to light a scene in the most attractive way, and it is even used a lot in scenes where it makes absolutely no sense for there to be three light sources.

Akeito11/7/2014, 6:16:32 PM1 votes

Wait we have a sun in Summoner Rift ? It's always so bloody foggy and dark that I didnt even realize it !!