Beautifying the Render

marty

Can anyone share some tips and practices to make renders in Godot look their best?

MagicLord

It's all post effects and shaders. Add an Environment post process to your camera, you can activate things like glow, aces tone mapping, dof, ssao, reflections. You can also use a GI probe.

TwistedTwigleg

Turning on MSAA (if possible) helps reduce jagged edges.

As MagicLord said, environment post process really helps (The WorldEnvironment node lets you change the environmental post processing without attaching to a camera :smile: )

Another thing I find that helps is changing the glow post effect to use additive instead of softglow, but that is likely a matter of personal preference.

marty

I've been tinkering with WorldEnvironment and it seems nice but there are so many knobs and dials to turn. ;-)

I'm curious, of the two, when do you feel a camera-based CameraEnvironment or scene-based WorldEnvironment is generally preferable?

TwistedTwigleg

I use WorldEnviroments for almost all of my scenes, so I’m a little biased :smile:

If you want all of your scenes to have the same set of Enviroment settings then using a camera based enviroment on your player makes the most sense. By placing it on the camera you can assure any scene that camera is in has all the same settings. This can help make your games have a more unified look across the board. Another plus is you can have different settings for different cameras is you want.

Using a scene based world enviroment is helpful when you want to tweak the settings for each scene. I generally change the skybox, glow settings, fog settings, and other adjustments for each scene, giving them an atmosphere I find works well for that scene specifically. This is more time consuming, and it can make your game feel a little disjointed visually, but it gives you finer control of the look of each scene.