
Turning on shadows would help, but only very slightly. But both of those things are being obscured by the lack of lighting information. Sure, there’s not much detail in the geometry to begin with, but we would still hope to see that the ground is wavy or that the left wall has that small column sticking out. Without the subtle changes in color (hue) and value (brightness), it’s impossible to make out any detail. Almost all the surfaces appear to be one uniform color across their whole area. Without going into a lecture on computer graphics, a quick way to describe this scene would be to say it looks “flat”. Most beginners will recognize that something’s not quite right, but they don’t quite know what’s missing. Unfortunately, we can’t really expect much from Hubs’s renderer when we’ve provided it with so little. Not exactly what I had hoped it would look like. glb, import it into Spoke, leave the default lighting (1 directional ‘sun’), then publish our scene and visit it in Hubs: 1997 called, it wants its graphics back. There’s certainly not much detail, but let’s see what happens when we export it as a.

1× Just three objects and four materials. It consists of just a few objects– Walls, Ground, and a sad little shed.Įach object has only the most basic materials on it–just some base color and the overall roughness adjusted a bit so that some things are slightly shinier than others. I’ve made a very rough model as a starting point. That way, you won’t feel too frustrated if it doesn’t work out exactly how you planned.


Whenever you’re starting out with something new like light baking, it’s often best to use a scene you don’t mind throwing away at the end. I’m trying a new format where I have chapter headings alongside this article, so it should be easier to return to a step later in case you missed something. You may find it easier to read through the whole thing first before attempting it yourself, but I’ll leave that up to you. 1× Despite the complex look, there are no dynamic lights used in this Hubs scene.īaking lighting can be a complicated topic to cover so I’m going to do my best to explain things step-by-step.
