Overcast lighting

Thought I'd try out some of the new features in Unreal 4.20 and take a break from my usual color pallet going for a moody overcast time of day. Feeling inspired by E3 Last of Us Part 2 and Death Stranding trailers. Using paragon assets from the market place - posed the character, modified a couple of materials, added additional trees/foliage and also added additional vfx to the scene.

Hi there, I’ve been spending a few evenings on achieving a good overcast lighting for outdoor. Not disappointed in UE4’s lighting system (It does lack a powerful tool like CE’s ToD tool tough) but I’m rather disappointe…

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Here's a Daz Studio render that I've used in some of my own work. Hope you find it useful! While you're here, check out my other free backgrounds, and a... FREE STOCK - Overcast Alley

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A quick practice to achieve some overcast lighting along with fog volumetrics.

Overcast lighting can be challenging to get right in UE4 , so I worked on this Lighting experiment to practice this, There're probably better ways of doing this but I've included a quick breakdown of my setup in case it helps anyone. Re-lighting was done on the environment I made earilier: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nYxnyE