I took some time to play around with lighting today. Different colors, intensities, how close they are to the sim, what angle they're pointed at, natural lighting coming into play, etc and I found out, as someone who doesn't stage photos often, that lighting in this game is actually pretty dynamic and makes a huge difference. I figured I'd share.
(My favorite was that if you put a light in front of your sim at night and change the color to flame, orange, or yellow it creates this golden glow that makes it seem like they are next to a campfire. Perhaps a good story telling tool!)
I'll put them under a spoiler since there's a lot of them. I took these pictures in Adventureworld because I knew it was empty and would be less laggy. However, this also makes the background environment look a little eh. Oh well.
Here's the pics!
Feel free to share your own pictures that you really like the lighting in!
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Also - it is Jared Leto as Hephaestion! So I am kind of overjoyed that you recognized him without me saying who it was! I will take his creation as a success!
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@Summerjase It is super fun to play around with! EA by default uses lighting so boringly. I especially enjoy using red lights in a house with vampires. I'd love to see some pictures of your sims' houses!
I'll have to take some screenshots and share them! I used to have a family who had a vampire in it; I set her room lighting very cold, and very dim. Unfortunately that family and house was on my old computer and I don't have any photos; but I'll keep this thread bookmarked and be sure to share next time I'm playing!
The water quality in Isla Paradiso is immensely better than Adventureland.
And I found a pose which murdered me deep in the feels:
Orange light is god, orange light is life.
Blue light is close second.
Now I have doomed myself. Even when playing normally I am going to mess with lighting for 6 years with every picture I take. Curses!
Club lighting
Outdoor lighting, at night
Hot tub lighting
And finally my favorite, the lighting at sunset/sunrise
Your pics are great! That last one though, with the blueish light, I think is my fav. I can't stop staring at it.
Haha! Thank you! I love that blue light.
It makes it look like the source of the fiery-light comes from his right, and so the light naturally fades the further away from the source. This pic and the next are light colors red>orange>yellow
Unfortunately, my game crashed, but I managed to also get this color combo to look pretty sweet. Light colors blue>purple>pink (If I remember correctly). Hephaestion had a script error when I went to change his pose and the game kind of got caught in this nexus between live mode and the pose list which cause the crash.
*Fairy Jared and Vampire Connor*
Nighttime shot of the road:
It seems appropriately dark. At least, my neighborhood typically looks quite dark during the later hours of night.
The ocean in the afternoon:
A rainy day in the park:
The lighting is quite soft in this one
And in this one
Sometimes, it seems a bit dark indoors. But I believe this has a lot to do with the quality of the lights in the house. I'll play around with it more, of course!
So dramatic.
He was clearly not amused by my toying with him
Monte Vista in the morning time without the ENB looks a bit too bright to me:
But with the ENB enabled...
Looks pretty cool!
And I know some people think it just makes the game overall darker, but I think it is still possible to mess around with light values.
A well lit room:
And this one was taken in the same room, but away from the brighter lights:
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