Been a while.

[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.

[Mike Amos]

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.

[tuna1957]

@Mike-Amos
like the view and the subdued interior lighting on this one. Well done.

[Mike Amos]

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

[pixelcruncher]

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?

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

Cheers,
Thomas

[Mike Amos]

@pixelcruncher

As requested.

[Mike Amos]

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'

[Mike Amos]

Mike-Amos

Ignore that, rong specs.

[Mike Amos]

Mike-Amos View too.

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