Been a while.

[Mike Amos]

Mike-Amos

A bit deeper, altered the hdri image and remembered to change the setting to hdri in the environment tab. I also did away with part of a wall to open up the room properly which also reveals another window for natural light.

[tuna1957]

Great start on what can be a very nice render.

[Mike Amos]

Thank you. Still not getting my head around artificial lights and in particular overlapping of illumination from different light sources.
I like this render program as it is and know it will get better. It challenges my grey cell but hey, what's life without a challenge.

[Rich O Brien]

@Mike-Amos said:

Still not getting my head around artificial lights

Before you tackle interior lighting it would be worth exploring why your scenes are struggling to light interior spaces.

It could be a glass setting or your HDR is not casting enough light.

Add a Sun light along with the HDR and make it shoot light in the window. Adjust its strength and radius to get it to your liking.

That's what I would do before even adding any assets into the scene. Get the interior space lit how you want.

[Mike Amos]

@Rich-O-Brien

Thanks Rich. Hopefully moving onwards.

[Mike Amos]

Mike-Amos

I was finding the larger premises difficult to motivate myself with so am going back to the smaller. The backgound/hdri has auto exposure selected in Rayscaper but is washed out.

The old SLR dilemna of exposing for either the interior or exterior but never both.

[Rich O Brien]

What is the setup for the window glass? Is it thickened? Two planes?

[Mike Amos]

Half inch glass pane with 10% opacity. Works elsewhere.

[Mike Amos]

Mike-Amos

I reduced the hdri to 0.01%.

[Mike Amos]

The pan and splatt effect is back.