Asset: Traffic Light
Added 2021-06-22 00:50:06 +0000 UTCAlright! A follow up to the traffic light video last week! There's a lot of additional stuff I kept being tempted to put in here, but I already let it balloon to a bit larger than I planned.
Some different lights, and a variety of (questionably-implemented-but-surprisingly-functional) retroreflective signage!
Download (Right Click, Save Link):
Traffic Light Blend File
FBX (The FBX version is even more useless than usual here, since I don't know how to pack any of the functionality into it, but on the chance that the models are useful as a starting point for anyone for anything, here they are!)
I highly recommend watching the above video for a quick intro on how to use them- it's a more complicated file than usual. My guess is 90% of the time folks are going to just want to append the "Sample Setup" into whatever file they're working on.
My computer's telling me it's currently 87 degrees Fahrenheit; time to finish reading some Neal Stephenson in the hammock!
Comments
Oh my God, this is amazing I could watch this all day.. awesome work thanks for sharing
Mirjam Cara
2023-08-03 17:03:50 +0000 UTCYup all set!!
Raf Stahelin
2021-07-03 22:31:38 +0000 UTCHey thanks, Jostein!! :D Hope you were able to get connected, Raf!
Ian Hubert
2021-07-03 22:21:23 +0000 UTCexcellent
2021-07-03 00:12:36 +0000 UTCHey man! Make sure you are on Ian Huberts patreon page (not your main feed), then click on "My Membership" up top next to the "Feed" tab. There is a box with Discord information and a "connect to Discord" button. Enjoy!
Jostein Lie Svalheim
2021-07-01 14:23:48 +0000 UTCHello all, how do I connect to discord
Raf Stahelin
2021-06-30 07:39:01 +0000 UTCIan, you're a damn hero! You deserve some sort of statue of yourself.
2021-06-25 19:02:38 +0000 UTCAmazing! Thanks Ian!
2021-06-25 16:04:51 +0000 UTCThank you for helping me learn, Ian! These videos always point me to fun, sometimes scary, rabbit holes. :-)
2021-06-23 02:41:12 +0000 UTCHey, I wouldn't mind a video with just book recommendations :-)
Jan van den Hemel
2021-06-22 13:15:58 +0000 UTCI can't believe i missed that! Thanks! I Also came across CamTrackAR that tracks your camera while you record stuff. Super handy i think! Im not sure if it works that well though.
2021-06-22 10:12:19 +0000 UTCwow, thanks for horizontal ones!
2021-06-22 09:42:50 +0000 UTCI do! Super super cool stuff, but I haven't found it particularly useful for production, yet (although certain things like being able to quickly scan a room is cool)- I talk about it a little bit at the 4 minute mark here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-from-49849988
Ian Hubert
2021-06-22 09:33:52 +0000 UTCAh yeah that's a very good point!! Also reminds me of something I completely forgot to mention in the video- there's another scene in there that contains the timing image, but if you want to make any tweaks to the image on your end it should be pretty straight forward! You could even just do it in MS paint or something.
Ian Hubert
2021-06-22 09:33:16 +0000 UTCHi Ian, have you used the Iphone Lidar scanner for anything yet? I think i read somehwere that you have an iphone now. Im curious what you think of it and what you've scanned and used it for.
2021-06-22 09:23:47 +0000 UTCI think that traffic lights don't actually switch from red to green on a fifty/fifty basis. With each light change there is a period of time when all lights are red (based on the size of the intersection). This delay is to allow cars that are in the intersection at the light change light to clear before cross direction traffic starts.
Max Chandler
2021-06-22 05:22:48 +0000 UTCOooooo dang that's a bunch of great tips thanks Nathanael! I might have to hop in and update the asset file!
Ian Hubert
2021-06-22 02:10:03 +0000 UTCWorth noting that if you really crank the multiply node it messes up alot of the timings because it cranks compression noise or whatever in the png up to bright enough levels to light the lamps - changing the traffic timing texture to non-colour and putting a (clamping turned on out of paranoia) greater than node with a threshold of >0 between the texture and the multiply node sorts it out.
Nate
2021-06-22 02:03:44 +0000 UTCAwesome! The traffic light segments on/off timing via b/w texture is OMG black magic to me, must study this technique. It's like visual programming with punch hole code!
German Bauer
2021-06-22 01:11:04 +0000 UTCThat's for this. Definitely going to okay with making an intersection later tonight, with a store on it. As to a Neal Stephenson book, which one? Still trying to finish the Baroque Trilogy.
Fes
2021-06-22 01:01:25 +0000 UTCThis is awesome! That code card reminds me of those old player pianos, like in those old Wild West movies.
Chris Ak
2021-06-22 01:01:00 +0000 UTC
