V-Ray and photo realism

[angelocleef]

Dear readers,

 

recently I started learning 3d development (3ds Max, ZBrush et cetera). I am totally in love with it but at the moment I a having trouble getting my renders more realistic.

 

I watched some tutorials on YouTube, and even though I do exactly the same as they do, my renders always come out a lot darker then the ones in the tutorials.

 

Anyways, I found some decent settings which do work quite nicely except that my renders are really, really fake and still a bit dark.

 

The "fake" part is most likely because my materials, I still need to learn to work with VRay Materials as I have been using Mental Ray until recently but what I would need your help with is the lightning part.

 

I downloaded a scene, and added light to it. It looks (in my opinion) very realistic and just super awesome! but when I make my own model, it is to dark and it looks very fake.

 

Can anyone tell me why this is (except for poor material use) and how I can fix this? if I know how to fix it, I know what to look for in the future

 

The one with the good results (scene downloaded, lights by me):

 

The one with the bad results (scene made by me):

 

Max 2014 file (good one):

http://www.filedropper.com/light2010

 

Max 2014 file (bad one):

http://www.filedropper.com/vrayinteriorlightingtest_1

 

I really hope you guys can help me out, as I am struggeling with this problem for a week now

 

Best regards,

 

 

Angelo

 

 

P.S. His walls and everything is WHITE... my material is white to but they turn out much warmer, yellow-ish... huh?