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Plastic white render

Anonymous
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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 ???
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Dwight
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Try using colored light - yellow and blue tints.

Archicad will suppress glare so you'll need PHotoshop to adjust the relative values.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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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
Newcomer
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.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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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
Newcomer
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.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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Ok, I'll try it and post it here when I'm ready, now movietime with my wife.
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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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
Newcomer
You would benefit from some simple Photoshop filtering in that case.
Dwight Atkinson