I need more*WHAM* factor :)

[Karl Ottenstein]

Just from a lighting point of view, it is flat.

My guess is that you have the 'camera light' checked (if this is really LW and not the internal engine? It is bad enough to look like the internal one.)

The camera light is a wonderful feature to allow anything to be illuminated so that you can see where you are... but isn't going to help produce a realistic lighting scenario.

Ditch the camera light, turn down ambient, add some yellow/orange to your sun(it is too cold now, especially for the time of day [low angle]), and add window lights to cast some diffuse illumination into the room. Try (I haven't yet myself) Dwight's tip in another thread to place a window light in a warm color on the ceiling to add ambiance.

Add some entourage ... try the archicado.fr web site for some good kitchen objects, for example ...

Good luck!

Karl

[stefan]

If you use LightWorks, then you can use the specific LightWorks lights: sun, sky and window. The windowlight should be placed on the inside of a window and adjusted to be of the same size as the window itself. This simulates the effect of sun & sky-light penetrating inside an interior and can give good results.

And if you use LightWorks, adjust the settings as to disable the camera-light (which doesn't help realism) and diminish the ambient light (or disable it).

If you use the LightWorks Sun & Sky, you can also disable the SUN in the LightWorks Rendering settings, since the LW Sun & Sky are considered Lamps 😉

Check out around this forum for some good tips by Dwight & Karl.

[Dwight]

Kid:

Lose the blue cabinets.

These grey things, what gives? You are regressing in skill.
Give your ambient a color like mauve. Make sun yellow. Jeez.

Generally every scene needs a little experimenting to get the light right. Thinking like a photographer would, place a key, model and fill light in the scene.

For ArchiCAD, start with a medium power light placed where th shadows cast help to "model" the space. Then soften the shadows with another lite and turn up ambient until it has a glow.

Or just give up until the LightWorks engine arrives. I know it is being held back unitl your currency, the Kangaroo Paw, improves in the world currency exchange. The Germans already have ArchiCAD 10 but you "downudders" still suffer.

You are wasting your time working in this archaic phong renderer from before you were born. Get artlantis or cinema and start practicing with a program that can help you make progress. The fun and development of your illustration skills will soften the pain of the cost.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Nik,

Sorry... I forgot that you were stuck on 8.1, and so don't have LightWorks yet. All of my comments were for LW; follow yoda instead. 😉

Karl

[Dwight]

And the cabinets? Try brown. Everybody likes brown.

Hey look - I'm an airplane until my next post.

[Dwight]

better. reduce texture size. stretch wood grain.

[Dwight]

I see that you have the shades, but I find it hard to imagine that you also have a white cane, considering your choice of career.

Of course the floor, too, you ninny!

The way to develop your vision is to actually look at your work. Does that floor even look remotely like any substance known to man. That you would walk on? Trees aren't that big even in Canada.

Look at the world around you. How DOES a floor look from 10 metres away? Smooth!

[Dwight]

This work is developed by trial and error. What is your goal? What kind of image do you want? Have you got some architectural photography over your work station to compare to?

It is nice that you ask questions and show your work, but until you bring your own standards to bear who can help you?

[Dwight]

Kid:

Think "Story."
What's your story?
Key to success in film making, the story tells you all sorts of things about the set and the architecture around whatpeople do - what color and lighting are necessary to facilitate the story of life.

And then there's the Force.

[Dwight]

Book

Robert McKee "Story"

Lampooned in excellent movie "Adaptation."