Lighthouse done

The white spot in bottom-right is “sun”/moon light reflected in water. I guess it should not be there. What do you think?

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The white spot is a bit prominent indeed. It hardly would be so big or flat if it were real… but the result is cute overall :smiley:

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It’s allowed to be there for sure, no worries, but it does look slightly unrealistic and artificial at the moment, and there are two reasons I can think of for that.

  • First, for a moon reflection, it seems gigantic (unless we’re playing Majora’s Mask, lol)
  • And second, your scene is so dark that we can’t see the horizon. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with having a dark scene, it does make it much harder for your audience to see details. Plus, with a moon reflection that big, the scene wouldn’t be that dark unless there were fantasy/magical/sci-fi explanations behind it.

At the end of the day though, you’re just getting started and you’ve done a solid job of this project! The points I listed are all easily fixed, and you probably only did it this way because these things hadn’t occurred to you yet. Keep going and have fun!

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The white circle is a lamp reflection, the size of it, is the size of the lamp.

With the new Blender 4.# you can remove those lamp artifacts.
Cycles only.

See: https://youtu.be/6Yphs45g4t0?t=215

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thanks! :slight_smile:

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This lighthouse is so good! I love the moon reflecting in the water. I think it makes the night scene more spooky. :slight_smile:

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