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

XavorTM··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

RiotRiotForScience22 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

XavorTM1 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

Haha yes i suppose they are infallible xD Thanks for the response, it means a lot to me!

Padagi2 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

jajajajajajaja

FatedTitan2 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

Question for you. Why is there a Scuttle Crab? That was the perfect opportunity for a Duck! We demand a duck!

RiotRiotForScience8 votes

Good Find, I will forward that along.

XavorTM6 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

Featherztorm5 votes

Don't bother stating your reason for why you did it man. Riot needs the players to give critical feedback in what could better the game, be it graphically, artistically, or whatever category it may be. If Riot sees what you pointed out, and find everything to be true and in need of a change, then you did what you were supposed to do, next to playing the game. People like Gapybo would rather see Annie farting fire out of her ass, and barfing Tibbers out of her mouth, rather than see it correctly. Being an artist myself, and having horrible OCD when it comes to false shading and highlighting, you did good. Continue helping Riot in ways others won't, or can't.

Good Find, I will forward that along.

From a Rioter.

Gapybo4 votes

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

dialMARK4acti0n2 votes

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

Featherztorm1 votes

Deleted that game after a couple days. While it's nothing like the old Mechwarrior games, it still isn't any better. Of course it looks better, but play wise, it sucks.

Kerrigan 4 Prez2 votes

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

Conncept1 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.

XavorTM2 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.

I know what bounce light is and this is not. The most brightest part is called highlight, and what i pointed is the brighest one. The bounce light on this material should be really hard to see. Otherways i do get your point, but admit that the there is nowehre this light to "bounce" :)

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.

yes, this makes sense. This is why i added "mistake" in the title, because i dont take it really as a mistake, because the idea is to make the game look good. Please dont take this thread as "oh look they suck". It was more like i just try to share something i found and if by some chanse it really is a mistake riot can work on it on further updates. Again, just sharing :)

Akeito1 votes

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

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