Plastic white render

[Anonymous]

Hi!

Is there anyone who nows any thread about making plastic white renders where all materials are whitewhite but you want to have some shadows too feel a depth?

I put my ambient high high and have some lamps on 5-10 % effect but it feels too dark.

When the computer calculate the render it feels pretty white, but when it's ready all turn grey ???

[Dwight]

Try using colored light - yellow and blue tints.

Archicad will suppress glare so you'll need PHotoshop to adjust the relative values.

[Anonymous]

Dwight : thanks
But I finally find a way that works for me, need a few adjustment though. I am using sky-object or what the name is (I have swedish names on my objects) with high detaillevel or something like that. Then I put some 'ambient'lamps with low effect, about 10%. And then use a high value at ambient settings in rendersettings.
Then I apply a sketch render.

Critic?

Still to grey maybe?

[Dwight]

Architects have this problem that they think light is white.

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS WHITE!!
[rehearsing for my lectures next week]

Humor me.

Make some yellow tint sun and blue tint sky and see if the effect is not more pleasing to the eye than this dead grey thing.

[Anonymous]

Dwight :
I know there isn't no such thing in real life, but on a white paper it is...
It shouldn't feel real, what I want is a sketchdrawing but with some shadows on it.
Like if I draw lines on a paper and then paint some soft shadoes, it's the feeling that I searching for.

I don't think yellow and blue would make it look like that?

[Dwight]

Grasshopper: you look but you do not see.

White things reflect the colors around them.

Try it. Just tints.

Your viewers will interpret what they see as white, but a colored environment will make the white seem lively, not dead and covered with crushed insects like it does now.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I'll try it and post it here when I'm ready, now movietime with my wife.

[Anonymous]

This proves Dwight's point:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=14980&start=10&sid=503aca44195672bcaa07e0bfa3269...

[Anonymous]

But I'm not after an render, I'm after a sketch to print to a paper to have it looked like a sketch, not a render... And I'm not sketching with yellow and blue lights, right? I want a clean sketch render with soft shadows and when I print it on a white paper, the lamp in my room should make the paper not look white..

But ok, here is almost the same with blue sky and yellow soft lamps..

[Dwight]

You would benefit from some simple Photoshop filtering in that case.