card model effect

[Anonymous]

Hey all,

I'm currently modeling an urban site for a university project and am having trouble with the renders. I would like the site model to be nice clean white as if it was made of white card or something similar. At the moment when it renders it looks a little grey in many areas. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[Anonymous]

thanks for the adice tigr, its been really helpful. so far, here are the imagesim happiest with. please feel free to critique them as you will.

thanks,

Mark

[Anonymous]

and another

[Anonymous]

Looks like bad radiosity which is actually good.
Seriously, big improvement Maybe a bit more contrast would be good (less ambient light more sunlight). You don't need to stick with the numbers, it was rather a start point, but definitely we have some progress here. Glad I could help.

P.S. You might also try "sunset, sunrise color" switch ON in SunObject settings, sometimes it gives interesting results.
P.S.2 Remember about Brightness slider after rendering is done.

P.S.3 I couldn't help myself and mess with your rendering.

[Anonymous]

blimey, how did you manage to make mine look so much better?!

[Anonymous]

I used Photoshop, but you can do similar in AC:
- decrease ambient light
- take a bit from skyobjects and give a bit to sunobject for better shadows
- make your grass less colorful and more dark
- use afterrender brightness setting to improve contrast

Thats all.

[Dwight]

Time to learn Photoshop.

Many Archicad users without photo editing fight with Archicad to render with correct color and exposure when ten seconds adjusting "Levels" or "Shadows/Highlights" in an application llike Photoshop can prevent another rendering.

Mostly, renderings lack a full range of values since Archicad's rendering engines play it safe, avoiding white and black. Adjusting levels expands these values to have greater impact.

[Dwight]

RE: Brightness

This adjustment lives in the PhotoRendering Dialog. It is dangerous.

The Brightness Slider does not reset. I have learned the hard way that if the Brightness dialog collapses, the user can forget they made an adjustment to correct a bad exposure and the setting stays, hidden and forgotten. Then, next time, what were properly-exposed images look bad. When this happened to me, I spent a lot of time re-adjusting lights when it was the forgotten brightness control.

Danger.