Comments on LW image welcome...

[Anonymous]

Anyone else work in an office this tidy? Does anyone have a "mess" object? Still having trouble with ceiling illumination, will have to search thru' Dwights answers (again) and crank up light values I suppose.

Please add thoughts.

[Dwight]

- enough, already with the glared messes!

- and you think you need MORE lights?
To solve a problem like this requires your artist's mind AND your mechanic's mind!:::::

- turn off all the real lights.
- put a yellow tinted general light floating in the midde of the space. say at 25 intensity.
- test render.
- adjust that light until everything is well defined.
- test render.- test render.- test render.- test render.
- add in the real lights one at a time, say at intensity 20, say tinted yellow. like they were props, not light sources.
- test render.- test render.- test render.- test render.

then you will know something about what the scene needs.

[Anonymous]

Anyone else work in an office this tidy? Does anyone have a "mess" object?

Just go post over in the GDL forum, and try to convince someone to code a few objects like "falling over paper stack" and "over flowing bin"

cheers,
dan

Oh and about the rendering.... considering the look of my current bloody mess of a rendering (which needs to be done in 13 hours from now) I have no room for comment.....

[Anonymous]

Thanks Dwight, I'll go do some test renders.

[Dwight]

sorry to be so hard on you, but the misconception is that scenes are lit using ArchiCAD light fixtures, and that is just wrong.

Karl O. has cleverly observed that the theme of my book is "think like a photographer" and that means bringing your own lites to the shoot.

Fixtures are just faint props.

When ceilings are dark, shine light like the windolyte straight up!

[Anonymous]

Here's another test render (one of many), lights as you advised. Also added some emission to wall and ceiling materials and dulled down reflections, modified view slightly, changed furniture. My kids just recognised it as my office so I'm happy with that.
Your advice is always welcome, Dwight. That " think like a photographer" catchphrase always gets me, maybe I'm thinking of a different kind of photography.

[Dwight]

Unfortunately "Woman in Red Dress" cannot be posed that way.

How can the lighting look more like it is coming in the window?

[Karl Ottenstein]

Dwight wrote:
Karl O. has cleverly observed that the theme of my book is "think like a photographer"

This required a huge amount of "cleverness" since Dwight titled one of his excellent (draft) sections ... "Think like a Photographer"

[Dwight]

Karl: It WAS perceptive, because you formalized the idea for me. Look: trees! Look: a forest!

And like the help you've been giving me in the book project, your disciplined thought is much appreciated. I took out the chapter on Radiosity named "Light of the Living Dead." I will use that joke another time.

Just days away from finishing, now.

But this "think like a photographer" idea is making so many users angry when they face the radical idea that just putting in fixtures with light bulbs isn't enough to softly light a space.

[fuzzytnth3]

Daniel wrote:

Anyone else work in an office this tidy? Does anyone have a "mess" object?

Just go post over in the GDL forum, and try to convince someone to code a few objects like "falling over paper stack" and "over flowing bin"
.

I made two objects a while back that randomly placed random objects over a given area. One worked in a linear fashion to suit 2d elevation drawings and the other worked in plan. The Elevation one worked fine but I don't think the Plan one worked very well.

I have also made a simple "random pile of books" object everytime you insert it into the model it generates a different number of books or magazines (with different colours). That one was for a Library project I was working on to try and get a bit of clutter happening.

I will post them in the Free Objects Thread when I get a chance