SomDowns Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 Just started learning Affinity Photo last week. I've been using PS for years as a 3D / CG artist. A lot of my work involves making realistic textures and materials for CG models. There isa delighting tool in the Unity game engine that removes the highlight/shadow information from an image. I thought that since AP has some interesting lighting tools, a delighting tool can be useful as well (albeit maybe only for a niche group). lepr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk23 Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 How Unity tool do it? based on what principles? Perhaps it could be possible to recreate with regular image editing tools. Usually it's pretty simple math Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomDowns Posted September 9, 2017 Author Share Posted September 9, 2017 Here is a link: https://labs.unity.com/article/experimental-feature-de-lighting-tool It seems that it would be an averaging of color or luminous data, and equaling out the contast or gamma so there is an even diffuse map. In the absence of good diffuse information (very dark areas or blown out specular areas), I suppose automatic in-paining or cloning tools would need to be used. Of course, such a tool would be useful only to artist who need to create textures that will be lit in a 3D application. And there would need to be a way to create maps for normals and specular information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk23 Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Thanks for the link. Does Unity tool able to remove shadows from the sun? Looks like it's basically ambient AO like lighting is being removed in their video. ps.There was an interesting soft https://www.fxguide.com/featured/tandent-lightbrush-engineering-an-image/ . It works right as they advertised even without any geometry info. I still wonder what's the magic behind this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nezumi Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I just want to confirm that I am one of those who would find that delighting option EXTREMELY useful. Sure, main use would be delighting textures but it would surely bring new possibilities to lighting in Affinity Photo itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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