The nighttime buildings in EPIC’s City Sample Project are full of functionality. Did you know you can change how many windows appear lit in night mode? Me neither, had it not been for Jim Bachalo who asked me about it. Fascinated by this myself, I took a closer look and here’s what I found out. …
The windows in EPIC’s famous City Sample project are made with HDRIs and a snazzy parallax effect so that it appears there’s depth and geometry behind them. Some windows are illuminated, which is done by making those materials emissive. The default value works well for the daylight scene, but not so well for in night …
The famous City Sample project from The Matrix Awakened has a night mode feature players can switch to from the in-game mini menu. That’s no good though if you want to use the project for rendering scenes via Sequencer. Thankfully there’s an easy way to enable this, let me show you how. First, find BP_Nightmode …