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

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
Don't use the camera light.

For brighter ceilings, shine a window light upward from head height.
Also, Lightworks has a quirk that white surface [undersides] are unreasonably dark. I made a high reflection white material for ceilings to combat this problem.

Thanks Dwight, I took out the camera light and used a window light but just above floor level, and it looks much much better now without those dark black ceilings, I incrreased the ambient light and changed the ceiling material

It still looks a bit gray instead of white, but it is much better, especially for being my first rendering

[Dwight]

If you are having trouble with surfaces being flat and grey, it is that the surface needs more responsiveness to the light "energy" - something to look at.


Add a little noise and texture to the surface.

Add a little color to the surface - yellow or pink.

Dial up increased diffuse and specular reflectivity.

Can you please post your result?

[Anonymous]

Dwight - has your book been released?

[Dwight]

No. It is still in the joint. Parole hearing in March.

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
No. It is still in the joint. Parole hearing in March.

In your book, do you explain concept and show how to acomplish things by examples or is it more like a bible eg. "if you do it like this you get this"

I already bought it, so it doesn't really matter, I'll find out when I read it

What do you think about that rendering program, MAXWELL?

[Dwight]

Thank you for your support in buying the book. I guess that I will have to write it.

So many books are made to sell paper. Beautiful and expansive, there's not much content. And you dished out $75.00.

I'm doing this book - without any subsidy - for our community and it is intended to do three things thoroughly:

1: Be a bible - Whereas the real bible tries to show how to live a good life and avoid sin, my book will help you smite bad taste and stupid errors, avoiding taste crime.

2: Be an experiment - Show how to develop lighting schemes incrementally, o that adults with aptitude [or not] can follow along and get the principle of the lighting strategy. So you get he finished model with all the lights and you get the step-by-step [including my mistakes] process of developing a material or a lighting scene.

3: Be a technical reference: Since the manual is poor - and evasive - on practical issues, it will show how lights work in detail. For reference, indeed, but more to convey the principle of how the metaphor works.

While my first book had one motto: "A picture is just a bunch of dots," designed to eradicate jargon, the new book, while more narrowly focused, has a new cynical tag line to drive it: "It's all crap!!!" [under review] or: "It's a trick!" [could apply to Valentine's Day, and love in general, but in this case, only to anything that happens inside a computer.]

We are getting closer to printing, with a target of April. The book will be US$90.00 in America and €75.00 in Europe. Shipping included for pre-orders. PAYPAL to: dwight_atkinson[at]telus.net [replace "[at]" with"@" to help defeat the robots]

MAXWELL RENDERER MAJORING IN MEDICINER: looks like lots of fun, if you were intent on introducing a new renderer it has to be great, but for ArchiCAD users, lack of integration is always a barrier - it means a time investment to transfer and interact. Remains to be seen if it has the silver hammer or not.

[Anonymous]

Here are two rendering for a project i am doing right now.
Everything is done in Archicad. Exported in 3ds. Rendered in Maxwell.
Time from exporting till press render in Maxwell 3-5 minutes (very very easy).

{i know the grass is awfull but there are 3 options for it . Fake it in photoshop, fake it using displacement maps,or create it in 3d. The first is for a final rendering,the third needs another computer and maxwell does not support displacement maps in this version)

Any comments welcomed

[Anonymous]

and the second one

[Dwight]

How do YOU feel about these?

[Anonymous]

I like the second one very much. You can even see the caustics from the railing. But i would like your opinion very much. Not about the model but about the rendering