In Event of Moon Disaster - Garry's Mod

[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/a1vy94h4ryyb59i/moon_bl.png[/IMG] [quote]...they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.[/quote]

that blue and yellow lighting isn't very moonlike at all

[QUOTE=Joazzz;44232316]that blue and yellow lighting isn't very moonlike at all[/QUOTE] I had a few alternative colorschemes but I liked the orange/blue contrast because it was kinda like the earth and the sun, I understood that it wasn't very moony but I was afraid it'd look boring as well [QUOTE][IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/a1vy94h4ryyb59i/moon_bl.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/l5192opiue82c67/moon_wh.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] I don't have a huge understanding about how the lighting on the moon would work but i guess those are kinda close? [editline]123[/editline] went ahead and just replaced it

sunlight on the moon is desaturated, pretty much perfectly white

is the one I just replaced it with better or should i kill the blue too

[QUOTE=Everest;44232354]I had a few alternative colorschemes but I liked the orange/blue contrast because it was kinda like the earth and the sun, I understood that it wasn't very moony but I was afraid it'd look boring as well I don't have a huge understanding about how the lighting on the moon would work but i guess those are kinda close?[/QUOTE] well the thing with lighting on the moon is that there's only a single light source (the sun), and everything else is reflected off of the surface. so you get a lot of extremely stark shadows, along with a gradient from very pale yellow to dark grey. here's a good idea of how it looks, featuring the coolest space suit design of all time: [IMG]http://www.geosociety.org/graphics/media/08-52_LunarSurface.jpg[/IMG] also speaking of blue and yellow contrast in space, Ed White's EVA (the first ever American one) is super good inspiration for cool lighting schemes [thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Ed_White_First_American_Spacewalker_-_GPN-2000-001180.jpg[/thumb] [thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Ed_White_performs_first_U.S._spacewalk_-_GPN-2006-000025.jpg[/thumb]