A Brief Overview of the World Environment in Godot 4

A video in which I go through a bunch of the options in the World Environment node, (specifically the Environment Resource) to show you what's possible to do with it.
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Background music by ‪@BackingTrackMusic‬
00:00 - Start
00:55 - World Environment
02:05 - Procedural Sky
03:04 - Physical Sky
03:57 - Panorama Sky
04:40 - Ambient Light
05:00 - Reflected Light
05:11 - Tonemap
05:49 - Screen Space Reflection
06:03 - Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
06:34 - Screen Space Indirect Lighting
07:02 - Signed Distance Field Global Illumination
07:35 - Glow
07:54 - Fog
08:10 - Volumetric Fog
08:24 - Adjustments
08:57 - Read it yourself here

[@bonsaipropaganda]

this and your particles video are amazing!! I love how you just explain every aspect of it! would you consider doing this with most nodes? this is so good

[@wattinteractive]

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying them! 😁
There are so many nodes in Godot that I'm not sure about hitting "most" of them, but I certainly intend to try and get through a large chunk of the 3D ones; Especially if they're helpful to making stuff look cool/good 😎

[@othnielsu697]

❤非常有帮助，正好是我需要的

[@ilhanilhanDev]

thanks for video , shart and understandable

[@XxIBlueIxX]

shart is crazy

[@Cigam_HFden]

Good overview of the different elements. Personally for the directional light I use 4 of them. Each is configured for a different shadow distance. Then I can see shadows with tiny closeup objects up to far away big objects. It is not great but gets a pretty decent effect at varying distances.

[@wattinteractive]

Oh, that's neat! I'd not thought of that setup. Do you do that just for testing purposes, or is it something you integrate into the final scene/game?

[@Cigam_HFden]

I am hoping to integrate it into a final game, but have not tested it yet, because I am working on some shader chaos to do some fancy stuff. Once I get that shader stuff done I want to test all of it in VR but will probably wait for 4.2 for that since there are some nice fixes to VR in that, especially for shadows. I should really work up a video or something if you want to see the settings I have. I only recently made it so not sure how well it will work in practice.

[@wattinteractive]

@@Cigam_HFden Cool! If you get a video up for it, I'm curious to see it

[@Cigam_HFden]

@@wattinteractive I just posted it here: ruclips.net/video/ZWVVXWznAVo/видео.html Hope that works well enough to explain how I am using the lights. Cheers!

[@99JasonKim]

could you implement the Desperado3 or Shadow Tactics type of vision cone? Thanks~

[@LucasRafaelDesenhista]

hi, nice channel. Please, make a video to explain more how to use multimesh instance to make grass or bunch of rocks, to level up the FPS. putting in the theory in pratice. making a simple scenario. please. O:) and a simple texture mix painting ground too, simulating blender mix shader factor.

[@Zenva]

Thank you for making this video! How can we get in touch for a sponsorship opportunity for our Godot courses?

[@wattinteractive]

I would love to chat more about an opportunity like that! You can send an email to [e-mail] and it will reach me. Thanks! 😁

[@possiblyzslot838]

How did you get that glass ball?

[@kulak8548]

How did you make the mirror material?

[@possiblyzslot838]

Pretty sure it can be done with the standard Godot material settings + reflections in Environment.
High metallic and specular, low roughness etc.

[@jasonwilliams8730]

👍

[@wattinteractive]

😁👍