3D Art/Indie Game Dev

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Headlight Lens Optics in Blender Cycles

So I searched for some time a while back on the best way to do this.  Even though it ended up being pretty much what I thought, it struck me that I didn’t easily find a concisely explained solution for this, so my intent is to provide one here.  This may not be a complete solution, based on your needs, but it’s at least a ground-work.

I started by making a bump map for the lens.  I used a reference image since my project was an actual car:

I then mapped the bump texture to the lens using the following node setup:

This is the result in material view-port shading:

And the result rendered:

Although this is not a comprehensive tutorial, I hope it may have helped at least guide you to a solution!

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Blocking in terrain and level layout for the first maze in my mobile project.  This is an early layout so a lot of the wall pieces will be replaced to break up the monotony and add variation to the environment.  

I want to set this game apart from other 3d maze titles in the Play Store so I’m trying to stay away from endlessly repeating wall tiles all arranged at perfect 90 degree angles on perfectly flat planes. 

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Hi Poly concept model vs. Lo poly game model for my main character. The Hi poly was mostly manually modeled with the details in the clothes being sculpted in. Manual retopo for the Lo poly.

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First pass at walk animation for my mobile game’s first enemy, a kobold minion.

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Working on some environment assets for my current mobile project.