Living Room

[Wilson Salvador Neto]

Hi People.

I´m trying to learn Max 7 Mental Ray, so I choose this living room to do it.

This living room is lit by 4 MR area spots, one in each opening and intensity of 0,65, color near white. There´s a direct target also, acting as sun and intensity 2,5, pale yellow.

In my opinion, this image is too bright and seems that contrast is missing.

My logarithimic exposure control settings:

Brightness: 40
Contrast: 70
Mid Tones: 1,0
Physical Scale: 3.000


GI Settings:

Maximun Num. Photons per Sample: 10.000
Maximum Sampling Radius: 5,0

Trace Depth
Max. Depth: 3
Max. Reflections: 3
Max. Refractions: 3

Average GI Photons per Light: 2.000
Global Energy Multiplier: 1,0
Decay: 2,0

Final gather: off

I hope you can help me, once I dind´t delivery to the client yet.

Thank you so much.

[Ricardo Eloy]

Don't know much of MR, Wilson, but the image looks good, even though Final Gather is off. The only thing that bothers me (and probably bothers you as well) is that the back wall looks too bright and, therefore, flat. Maybe you should start using only the sun as a light source and then place the other lights as you fell they are needed. The foreground looks cool, though.

[Wilson Salvador Neto]

hello there

I´ve decided to make a night shot, witch in my opinion gave more effect to the scene.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

[Ivo Nklv]

very clean GI solution!
put some FG man

[Wilson Salvador Neto]

Ivo, here it goes!!

GI + FG.

[Stephen Leworthy]

nice, but i think the gi solution needs to be darker and richer. the shadow areas aren't contrasty enough. the white walls/ceiling look way too bright.

[Ivo Nklv]

much better
now try to reduce the color bleeding from the carpet (play a little bit with the shader or do some experiments with fg falloff)

[patrick deno desamparado]

<good one, though I would suggest to move the camera a bit to the left, target a bit to the right. I think your current view(one point perspective) is looking flat.

[salf none]

pretty nice!!!....and thanks for share your settings.

On the last image your doors (on white) are almost dissapearing on the white walls.

[thomas son]

Very good lighting! what is the line in the upper 3rd of the mirror? Thomas+son