topic Re: Large Room lighting in Visualization

Large Room lighting

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:25:04 GMT

I am designing a RV showroom. It's right at about 25,000 square feet with an 23'-6' open ceiling. What is the best way to about filling the room with soft light? Also, there are windows all the way around the showroom. I have read Lightworks in Archicad and really couldn't find anything. Any help would be great!

Re: Large Room lighting

Dwight — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:07:36 GMT

What?

The light cone down set wide is your answer.

Pages 58 - 70

Re: Large Room lighting

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:57:32 GMT

Here is the scene with a wide light cone down. Attached is the rendering.
Sunlight 100%
Ambient light 100%
Lamps on
Light cone down 80%

Re: Large Room lighting

Dwight — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:01:01 GMT

post a screen shot of your light cone setting.

Re: Large Room lighting

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:13:19 GMT

How do I go about doing that?

Re: Large Room lighting

Dwight — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:22:31 GMT

Where I'm going with this is to direct you to making the light cone down larger (and softer) by adjusting its Light Cone Radius similar to the settings on page 68 of the book where I show how to light an entire room using just one light cone down light source.

You might start by looking in the light Settings for the light cone down - increase the light cone radius to 20 or 30 feet.

Make sure your light stops value is bigger than the room.

Incidentally - the suspended fluorescent fixture contains a light cone down that can be expanded beyond the fixture for softer light. I see that you have several of these lights in the ceiling already.

And use the LightWorks engine, not the internal engine.

Re: Large Room lighting

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:26:13 GMT

Believe it or not that is the lightwoks engine. How do you show a screen shot of the settings again?

Re: Large Room lighting

Dwight — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:44:39 GMT

I set mine to Command-Shift-4 for marquee defined capture and Command-shift-3 for full screen.

Re: Large Room lighting

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:52:52 GMT

I took another shot of the other side of the room. Please comment.

Re: Large Room lighting

Dwight — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:22:46 GMT

use fewer, larger light sources. Make them wider.

Post your individual settings.