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Anonymous
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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
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Anonymous
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Dwight
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Since you have a model set up already, could you please try a series with different ambient colors and interesting skylight color?
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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Since you have a model set up already, could you please try a series with different ambient colors and interesting skylight color?
Dwight, are you refering to my post or mark's ?
Dwight
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You.
And you have the skill to do it....
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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As soon as I finish some boring paywork, I will be happy to do it.
Anonymous
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Well, after 20 slightly different renderings I reach some conclusion:
In my subjective judgement (and monitor calibration) the most eye-pleasing combination is:

1. Ambient light 48%, color - warm or cool grey, depends on what kind of mood we need, mine was R164,G159,B142
2. SkyObject 39%, R155,G224,B247, Lat and Long. resulotion - max, soft shadow OFF
3. SkyObject 39%, R235,G222,B147, Lat and Long. resulotion - max, soft shadow ON
4. SunObject 65%, R252,G231,B143 Light sources - 20, angle - 3

Of course those lights work with the high ambient-sensitive material I described before, also my aim was to get evenly lit yet lively scene.

Having one SkyObject without soft shadows keeps the shadow alive, I think soft shadows are too subtle and make the scene flat. It is the second case in AC when the "best" setting is actual worse than the "worse" ( antialiasing)
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Anonymous
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some other..
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Anonymous
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and another..
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Dwight
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16 + 19 are certainly getting there.
Thank you for the examples.
Dwight Atkinson