General Lighting/Shadows resources

[lunatorra]

Was hoping someone could refer me to a solid book or site that teaches what I need to know, regarding lighting and shadows.
How to achieve realistic lighting of all sorts (natural, artificial) and the "secrets" behind said-lighting and the shadows they generate.

Lighting has turned out to be quite the beast in recent weeks, and I havent tracked down any trustworthy resources yet.
Guess I shouldnt have said "General"... because the resource would need to revolve around computer graphics I bet, explaining techniques n' stuff...

*edit* Could use information on specularity maps, "shadow" maps, and baking lighting/shadow too... Guess that's a lot of shtuff.

Anyway, would help!

pre-Thanks

[Icemopper]

I'm looking for some similar info, I'd be very interested to see what comes up. I was wondering even more specifically if there is a way to re-create photometric data in the Unreal engine?

I've seen some of the WIP and completed works posted here and the stuff people come up with is incredible.

[MOTHERJAVA]

There are tutorials on YouTube called basic daytime lighting and basic night time lighting, which are great starting points. Also, EAT3d has a DVD out called udk lighting and post processing, which is quite in depth and very helpful.

[lunatorra]

There are tutorials on YouTube called basic daytime lighting and basic night time lighting, which are great starting points. Also, EAT3d has a DVD out called udk lighting and post processing, which is quite in depth and very helpful.

Thanks. checking them out nowwww

[kirk89]

It was wonderful, it helped me a lot.