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    • Mike AmosM Offline
      Mike Amos @Mike Amos
      last edited by

      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.

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      • tuna1957T Offline
        tuna1957
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        Great start on what can be a very nice render. πŸ‘

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        • Mike AmosM Offline
          Mike Amos
          last edited by

          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.

          Absentia mortis praesentiam vitae probat, vita autem est argumentum constantiae.

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          • Rich O BrienR Offline
            Rich O Brien Moderator @Mike Amos
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            @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.

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            • Mike AmosM Offline
              Mike Amos @Rich O Brien
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              @Rich-O-Brien

              Thanks Rich. Hopefully moving onwards.

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              • Mike AmosM Offline
                Mike Amos @Mike Amos
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                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.

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                • Rich O BrienR Offline
                  Rich O Brien Moderator
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                  What is the setup for the window glass? Is it thickened? Two planes?

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                  • Mike AmosM Offline
                    Mike Amos
                    last edited by

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

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                    • Mike AmosM Offline
                      Mike Amos @Mike Amos
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                      Mike-Amos

                      I reduced the hdri to 0.01%.

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                      • Mike AmosM Offline
                        Mike Amos
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                        The pan and splatt effect is back.

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                        • Mike AmosM Offline
                          Mike Amos @Mike Amos
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                          Mike-Amos

                          OK HDRI only light source outside the model, painted on to a surface half the building height as a scaling mechanism. HDRI set to 0.80.

                          3 1024s 2015 x 1202 957347 tri 3m s GPU  env 0.80 Backplate.png

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                          • tuna1957T Offline
                            tuna1957 @Mike Amos
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                            @Mike-Amos
                            like the view and the subdued interior lighting on this one. Well done. πŸ‘

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                            • Mike AmosM Offline
                              Mike Amos
                              last edited by

                              Thanks mate, not even close, takes me a while to find the sweet spot at the moment. Moving on.

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                              • P Offline
                                pixelcruncher Extension Creator
                                last edited by

                                Good stuff mike!

                                You mentioned that auto-exposure is doing funky things? Is the image below using auto-exposure? If so, what does it look like without auto-exposure?

                                d4d77b9c-67bb-4359-99c9-7316efe59ff2-image.jpeg

                                For the window glass, make sure you are using the glass material with thin & transparent shadows:

                                ff446308-426a-43d4-bf90-a67cff1a6f5f-image.jpeg

                                Cheers,
                                Thomas

                                I'm the developer of Rayscaper: https://rayscaper.com/ - Fast and easy rendering for SketchUp.

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                                • Mike AmosM Offline
                                  Mike Amos @pixelcruncher
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                                  @pixelcruncher

                                  As requested.

                                  No Auto Exposure.png

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                                  • Mike AmosM Offline
                                    Mike Amos
                                    last edited by

                                    OK, I have noticed we have different material presets available, you have a lot more than I and help, about. suggests I am using 0.9.92'

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                                    • Mike AmosM Offline
                                      Mike Amos @Mike Amos
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                                      Mike-Amos

                                      Ignore that, rong specs.

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                                        Mike Amos @Mike Amos
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                                        Mike-Amos View too.

                                        Kitchen area, note missing colour/items 2d export versus render.

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                                        • Mike AmosM Offline
                                          Mike Amos @Mike Amos
                                          last edited by

                                          Mike-Amos

                                          May have needed a restart which cures some content glitches.

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                                          • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                            Rich O Brien Moderator @Mike Amos
                                            last edited by

                                            @Mike-Amos said:

                                            Kitchen area, note missing colour/items 2d export versus render.

                                            Is the container(group/component) painted or the raw geometry? What does Entity Info say regards the selected container?

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