Large Room lighting

[Anonymous]

I am designing a RV showroom. It's right at about 25,000 square feet with an 23'-6' open ceiling. What is the best way to about filling the room with soft light? Also, there are windows all the way around the showroom. I have read Lightworks in Archicad and really couldn't find anything. Any help would be great!

[Dwight]

What?

The light cone down set wide is your answer.

Pages 58 - 70

[Anonymous]

Here is the scene with a wide light cone down. Attached is the rendering.
Sunlight 100%
Ambient light 100%
Lamps on
Light cone down 80%

[Dwight]

post a screen shot of your light cone setting.

[Anonymous]

How do I go about doing that?

[Dwight]

Where I'm going with this is to direct you to making the light cone down larger (and softer) by adjusting its Light Cone Radius similar to the settings on page 68 of the book where I show how to light an entire room using just one light cone down light source.

You might start by looking in the light Settings for the light cone down - increase the light cone radius to 20 or 30 feet.

Make sure your light stops value is bigger than the room.

Incidentally - the suspended fluorescent fixture contains a light cone down that can be expanded beyond the fixture for softer light. I see that you have several of these lights in the ceiling already.

And use the LightWorks engine, not the internal engine.

[Anonymous]

Believe it or not that is the lightwoks engine. How do you show a screen shot of the settings again?

[Dwight]

I set mine to Command-Shift-4 for marquee defined capture and Command-shift-3 for full screen.

[Anonymous]

I took another shot of the other side of the room. Please comment.

[Dwight]

use fewer, larger light sources. Make them wider.

Post your individual settings.