With the animations of the ships finished, I needed to add lights to the scene. This I found hard as there are many selections of lights in maya. The one I found most effective was the point light as it added the effect to the scene as if it was using the default light settings. As this is what I used when creating the scene and it was what i wanted the scene to look like i felt using this lighting technique was the best way forward. However as it is set in space I wanted the lighting to be a shade of yellow to replicate the sun. This ended up meaning the lights were changed to 3, 2, and 1 in the colour column to get a yellowy orange colour on the scene. However this wasn't the same for every scene and I wanted white light in other scenes. Also as I wanted some things to be highlighted in other ways I used directional lights with the spot lights to highlight objects such as the space station. Also as I have included the X-Wing shooting at the intercepter, I wanted the cylinders shooting at them to emit light. To use this technique I used the youtube tutorial on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CijESEporUo to help me with this new technique. Also i have added all the sky domes to my scene.
The picture show the gun on the left getting ready to fire a cylinder which in render time would have a glow to it, it is then fired at the ship in front. It also shows the sky dome surrounding the scene.
I also tried to add some sound to the animation within maya but it didn't come out as I expected. The sound wasn't very loud and was muffled. I am trying to see if adding sound to the animation after the animation has been rendered would be an easier thing to do.
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