Background image and window frame lightning problem

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone.

My windows inside frames (pine material) are too dark.
Background image (cloudy sky) and grass texture are not visible thru the windows. What should I do?

My light settings for this shot were:

Light Sources
150% Ambient (color - light mauve), and Lamps

LW Sun
Color Yellowish, Intensity 80, Light Source 10, Dever. Angle 2 deg.

LW SkyObj.
Color Light Blue, Intensity 60, Lat. 3, Long. 10,

Undersun
Color Yellowish, Intensity 30, Light Source 15

General Light
Positioned behind of the camera, Intensity 40, Color Yellowish, Distance Fall. 1.00, Height 3'

Window Lights up to ceiling
Color Yellowish, Intensity 70, Light Res. 2, Shadow Quality 3 ,Height 3'

Window Lights from ceiling to floor
Color Yellowish, Intensity 70, Light Res. 2, Shadow Quality 2, Height 3'5''

Thanx, chipo

[Anonymous]

Grass Texture: Have you transferred the texture to the LightWorks material?

Yes. So there was the problem.

...these settings are NOT optimal, just what I used for this particular scene. Hope this helps.

I will try this settings tomorrow.

THANX FOR THE TIPS.

chipo

[Anonymous]

...these settings are NOT optimal, just what I used for this particular scene. Hope this helps.

...it helped. I have attached my new render.

Next thing to do is improvement of grass texture and rail material (chrome?).

thanx, chipo

[Anonymous]

Well done. You have some good balance of light and shadow in this scene (much better than mine). I let myself tweak it a little in PS.

For chrome you might look here:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=11751

BTW: What are you doing with this cat?

[Dwight]

Pawel's metallic is reminiscent of pewter.
you might like to use mirror with some extra distortion or this:

Taken from the Lightworks Surface Archive in Archicad.

Whatever you do, don't make a material using either the chrome 2D or chrome 3D shader.

[Anonymous]

tigr wrote:
Well done. You have some good balance of light and shadow in this scene (much better than mine). I let myself tweak it a little in PS.

For chrome you might look here:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=11751

BTW: What are doing with this cat?

What kind of effect have you used in PhotoShop?

BTW: Just training rendering.

chipo

[Anonymous]

What kind of effect have you used in PhotoShop?

It was not one but few of the routines like:

- desaturate
- levels adjustment
- diffuse glow filter
- blur filter
- brithness/contrast

..don't remember the numbers, just tweak it untill it feels right.

Do you mean you train that cat to do renderings for you?

[Anonymous]

tigr wrote:

Do you mean you train that cat to do renderings for you?

Oh, that cat. I thought that you wrote CAD instead of CAT. Sorry.

That cat name is Muco and I'm training him to become first slovenian astronaut.

PS: thanks for tips

chipo