I need ambient light in lightworks

[Anonymous]

I am working on 7 interior renderings for a presentation of a house to a client and I am having problems in light works getting the ambient light to light up the rooms, my ceilings are white, but they look black, I have spot lights located, so everything looks lit, except for my ceilings, I tried changing the ambient light, I set general lights inside the rooms at floor level, ceiling level and in the middle, I've change the size and angle of the lights, but with mixed results

Its my first time using light works for interiors and it is driving me nuts, can somebody guide me to obtain more natural light inside the rooms, I would really appreciated

Luis

[Dwight]

1: bluish cast - is this really how the sky works in Greece? Seems greenish and overwhelming - can you rotate the sun to cast light across the building face at all? it would punch it up a lot.

2: shadows seem "noisy." Have you gone cheap on render quality? Can you dila it in to a better setting? Lightworks has this problem in the penumbra, too.

3: nice polished porcelain enamel on garage doors.

4: balcony undersides seem murky - what is the bright band underside both top balconies?

[Anonymous]

1: bluish cast - is this really how the sky works in Greece?

I can make the sky from very blue to very sandy like . This are default settings in Maxwell (just a fast render)

shadows seem "noisy." Have you gone cheap on render quality?

Yes i have done a very fast render (for maxwell's standards) just 10 minutes.
All dark places should have noise at so little time.

balcony undersides seem murky - what is the bright band underside both top balconies?

Balconies undersides are grey and under shadow , so they are noisy.
The bright band is just metal caustics. It is reflective caustics caused by the railings. The railings (metal reflective railing is used) cause that phenomenon.
Its lets say indirect light. If the picture was large enough you could see the stripes from the railing.

I post an example of simple reflective caustics

[Dwight]

Now THAT is a pretty thing! Will you be giving it to her in gold, or platinum?

As a general rule, anything that the viewer dwells on unfairly, no matter how accuurate it might be, is a problem, so your railing reflections, being as jarring as they are, should be fixed. Would that be anodized aluminum in real lilfe?

For instance, in my latest assignment, I have gone to great effort to make an exciting window reflection group that the client feels overly masks the interior activity. Back to the drawing… key… board.

[Anonymous]

if its platinum i ll keep it for myself.

Those reflections actully are very common in real life.
in sunny days (here in greece we have a lot, although today its snowing) you will can watch that, but the railing here is very think so you might be right.
At that resolution is only merky.

I am creating now one with a little bit of DOF (depth of field).
I ll post as soon as its finished..