Oasis was one of the Halo Infinite Season 3 maps that I got to light! This one is really close to besting Scarr for the title of "My Favorite Map I Did Lighting For". And Oasis was DEFINITELY the most difficult from an optimization standpoint. (1/2) - ThreadSky

tolerlive.bsky.social • 93 days ago

Oasis was one of the Halo Infinite Season 3 maps that I got to light! This one is really close to besting Scarr for the title of "My Favorite Map I Did Lighting For". And Oasis was DEFINITELY the most difficult from an optimization standpoint. (1/2)

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beethovenus.bsky.social•93 days ago

The stuff you guys did for this game was absolutely phenomenal. Oasis is definitely one of my favorite BTB maps, and having it for Firefight (even though I wish it had different hills/spawns) is fantastic.
Wish you all had been able to work on more stuff for Halo like this!!

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

I loved my time on Halo and miss it greatly 💙

beethovenus.bsky.social•93 days ago

I can understand that completely, haha. Halo's always been important to me since I was little.
Hope EA is working out for you!! Still trying to find my way into the industry, but entry level stuff has been sparse, haha.

omegaredsix.bsky.social•93 days ago

Nice work!

missheepious.bsky.social•93 days ago

How hard is it to do lighting for stuff? It looks so pretty. I've only messed around with Roblox stupid haha

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

Photography is a great skill to pick up to learn many of the fundamentals of light, composition, value, etc.. Downloading a game engine and lighting various 3D environments, following tutorials, and a bit of schooling is how I learned. Originally i was an environment Artist however.

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

That's a difficult question to answer. It depends on what sort of environments youre lighting, what style you're working in, and what the technical limitations of your project/game/environment are. If you're passionate about it, there's MANY ways to begin learning lighting.

deepfathomgames.bsky.social•91 days ago

beautiful

dmc40.bsky.social•92 days ago

Maybe a stupid questions, but do you first do something like blockout scene lighting or completed scene with materials? And is there a case when you see that materials are not quite good when light comes around? Awesome work!

connor.dawnsdigitaldomain.com•93 days ago

Can't imagine it was a cakewalk for optimizing for OG Xbox One

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

Hah! It was not fun lmao. When the OG xbox one can only render 1 casting shadow at a time it becomes quite the puzzle. Luckily the way we established lighting groups helped with scaling our work across multiple platforms of varying quality.

connor.dawnsdigitaldomain.com•93 days ago

Wow, only one casting shadow at a time??? Is that for every game or just for how Halo Infinite is set up?

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

This meant we would manually create shadow fade distances so that only lights that are within a certain number of meters from the player camera would render. On an Xbox one this distance may be like 4 meters, on a series x it may be like 20.

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

More of a limitation on Halo Infinite specifically. We could enable shadow casting lights on multiple lights, but to keep performance optimized we had to limit xbox one SKUs to only rendering 1 of those shadows at a time usually.

connor.dawnsdigitaldomain.com•93 days ago

So like, everything else was using baked shadows?

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

In campaign, everything is dynamic. In multiplayer, we would bake static shadows as well as use dynamic casting shadows for important light sources. It's the dynamic shadow casting lights that had the limitations.

beardeddecay.bsky.social•90 days ago

Always a great time when we get this map

islamr44.bsky.social•92 days ago

😍

spacecrabs.bsky.social•93 days ago

One of the best looking maps in the game!

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

Thanks friend!

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

Being one of the largest BTB maps in Halo Infinite- with a large exterior space as well as very large interior locations (caves, blue/red base, center structure) meant there are A LOT of lights in this map. Optimizing their overlap, shadows, and # of lights was a long task to achieve stability

sadinkel.lefton.red•93 days ago

OBSESSED with your work on this map! it feels like Halo 3 Rats Nest got a major upgrade in the best way! can definitely feel the care and love you put in! ✨️

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

That means so much!!! Thank you sabrina!!

robcos023.bsky.social•91 days ago

They’re all great but that shot top left. Oh my goodness. That’s art right there. Stanley Kubrick says helloooo Halo.

latenighthalo.bsky.social•93 days ago

This map is the most visually polished BTB map IMO

I flew through for hours just admiring the consistency between the outdoor, indoor and cavernous environments.

Not a shadow nor light is out of place

tolerlive.bsky.social•91 days ago

Thanks man!!! There's definitely a few areas i wish I had the time for another pass on (had a really fun idea for the lower interior room with the blue lighting/glass windows that i didnt have time to execute on), but I'm happy with the outcome of the map over all!

bullyrookgames.bsky.social•92 days ago

Still one of my favorite maps 🔥

fijigod.bsky.social•93 days ago

Amazing work! Whenever I go grab screenshots in Infinite Oasis is always the one I pick because of its amazing lighting!

latenighthalo.bsky.social•93 days ago

Oh man, this is my personal favorite map you've done. Scarr is great but the color pallet limited the beauty.

This feels warm enough to take a walk through. So convincing and radiant!

tolerlive.bsky.social•93 days ago

I always appreciate your kind comments, man! Oasis was definitely my favorite BTB map to play in infinite, so it was easy to get inspired when I was working on it! Glad the end result made people happy

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orbitalowl179.bsky.social•92 days ago

my favorite lighting direction in the btb maps, well done!!!

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