Hi all,
I have been playing around with creating some still renders, The shadows were too dark so I went to the expert setting and changed the colour of the shadows from a black to a grey. Now the shadows are a good brightness, but the interior of a model now looks too bright as if there are powerful lights switched on.
What settings can I used to achive a darker interior whilst keeping a lighter shadow?
lighing used = only solar with physical colour, intensity of 60 [356 Lux] 90 cloud, 3 Air Quality. Rendered on Exterior Good, 1800px x 1100 px [about]
Image above = Shadows too dark, interior of wheelhouse looks good.
Image above = Shadows good, Interior wheelhouse too light.
[Ignore the different hull colours I've been asked to come up with some colour variations]
Hi Myles,
I would recommend that you change the shadow color back to black. Use interior good to get an extra bounce of light. Make sure on the global illumination tab in the rendering settings dialog that you have Indirect Caustics set to Refraction.
My guess is that you are using Exterior Good and Indirect Caustics is set to None which means none of the indirect light from you environment enters the wheelhouse.
Cheers,
Jerry
Well here it is with the shadow colour set back to black with render setup Interior Good and indirect caustics set to refraction.
Again the shadows look way too dark, what settings can be used to lighten the shadows a little?
And the latest attempt, using interior good but putting the shadow colour back up to a grey [rgb value 20,20,20 - the previous one was into the hundreds] and also using a value of 15 for Spread angle to dissipate the shadows. The interior of the wheelhouse is perhaps a tiny bit on the light side but I think this is the best balance I have achieved so far.
Some-one in the office has just looked over my shoulder and said, "can't you just tint the windows a bit more?"... I may play with that idea :)
Have you tried to add an environment? After adding one try to play with the settings (Hi Lux = no shadow, low Lux is only shadow) a little (works good in combination with fast preview).
I should try to add this environment (with visible to camera and reflections off).
Regards Louis
Ha ah! never thought about adding an environment.
The only problem is the purpose of these renders are to embed it within another image - so really an environment is not wanted. [See image below]
So I have been rendering the image from microstation with no background and saving is to a .psd [photoshop] file with a transparent background to butcher together some neat visualisation images.
I don't agree :-),
Can you try to add the background image as environment (indirect light). I think the feeling of the boat will less cgi.