{"id":95,"date":"2023-04-30T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T10:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/docs\/sturdy\/usage\/painting-with-light\/"},"modified":"2023-05-14T07:05:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T07:05:57","slug":"painting-with-light","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/docs\/sturdy\/usage\/painting-with-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting with Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/feet.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/feet-1024x366.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/feet-1024x366.webp 1024w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/feet-300x107.webp 300w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/feet-768x274.webp 768w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/feet-1536x549.webp 1536w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/feet-2048x731.webp 2048w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/feet-700x250.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although you may use the <strong><em>Sturdy<\/em><\/strong> node groups to create <a href=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/docs\/sturdy\/usage\/creating-your-own-materials\/\">your own custom materials<\/a>, keep in mind that <strong><em>Sturdy<\/em><\/strong> was designed to produce highly stylized, abstract, impactful color compositions out of the box, <strong>even <\/strong>(or <em>particularly<\/em>) <strong>when used as a single material.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No matter what you do, as long as you provide <a href=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/docs\/sturdy\/usage\/world-and-environment\/\">some lighting to your scene<\/a>, your meshes will be rendered with a painterly, gestural look defined by colorful and textured brush strokes.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong><em>Sturdy<\/em><\/strong> color expression is determined by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>light position<\/li>\n<li>light intensity<\/li>\n<li>light rotation (in the case of the Sun, Area and Spot Lights)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In one word, you&#8217;ll be <strong>painting with light<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 700px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-95-1\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/webm\" src=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/painting-with-light.webm?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/painting-with-light.webm\">https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/painting-with-light.webm<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>If your colors don&#8217;t look great, try <strong>adding lights, moving lights around<\/strong> and <strong>playing with the lights<\/strong> and the environment&#8217;s <strong>intensity<\/strong>. You&#8217;ll note that moving a  light source further away or closer to the main mesh &#8212; even if a tiny bit &#8212; may result in color effects that range from the nuanced to the dramatic. It&#8217;s really all about experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>Colors also change (and brush strokes gently rotate) when you <strong>change the viewpoint<\/strong> on the Viewport or on the Camera, so feel free to use that as well as a source of creative expression.<br \/>\n<small><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: Since the actual brush stroke colors will be determined internally by the shader&#8217;s node group, <strong><em>Sturdy<\/em><\/strong> will react to a light&#8217;s value, but <strong>won&#8217;t react to a light&#8217;s color<\/strong>. <strong>A red light on your scene won&#8217;t produce red brush strokes on your mesh<\/strong>. If you want to control color in <strong>Sturdy<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/docs\/sturdy\/usage\/accent-color\/\">keep reading<\/a> .)<\/small> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":0,"template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-95","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/95\/revisions\/410"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/54"}],"next":[{"title":"Accent Color","link":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/docs\/sturdy\/usage\/accent-color\/","href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}