bright window lights...

[NOOXY]

i'me currently working on a kitchen scene i want to give it the effect of a bright sunglight coming through the window. i tried putting a spot light directly in the window and turned up the brightness but don't get the effect i want..can someone help e achieve something like this....here's my kitchen design below and an exxample of what i'm looking for.....c&c away

[vertexART]

hi there,

do U have shadows 'enabled' on your sun? it doesn't look like it's casting any...

I don't know about c4d though, hopefully someone else will give U more input.

cheers

[STRAT]

yup, turn shadows on, make the glass almost clear, and make sure the glass itself doesnt cast shadows.

 

did you see my pool image i did in c4d?

 

http://www.nikclark.com/strat/poolfinal1.jpg

 

i used a strong self illumed white material on the sky object, and a strong (about 100% strength) spot light as the sun, shining in through the windows.

[Frosty]

A little bit of visible and/or volumetric light on the sun can do wonders too - beware of the render times tho.

[skala67]

some of the best results I have gotten in C4D are from using an omni light for the sun with a yellow/orange tint and area shadows (play with brightness) and a sky dome with HDR material in the luminance channel, and of course the radiosity settings found in the advanced render module. I would strongly suggest getting the 2nd DVD (radiosity interiors) in the 3dfluff.com collection if you use advanced render.

http://dvd.3dfluff.com/prodinfo.htm

It explains how to effectively use lighting and the advanced render module to get the exact results you are looking for. good luck and look forward to seeing more.

 

cheers,

[NOOXY]

thanks everyone for their tips and comments looking forward to posting more work cause ua'll guys make the world of 3d modelling fun

[NOOXY]

heres's a lil update on that kitchen c&c welcomed....

 

this took me 13 hours to render,,i don't think that's normal...using c4d here are my settings

 

AA BEST

RADIOSITY:

STRENGTH 100

ACC 70

PP 1/2

DD 2

SS 1200

MIN RES 100

MAX 300

 

 

ANY SUGESSTIONS PLEASE

[STRAT]

13 hours??? thats a dissgrace!

 

 

it's all down, as usual, to the lighting rig.

 

internally, try 2 or 3 low light emitting omni in-fills.

 

externally, you need a strong gi casting sky object at say 150% illuminance maybe, and a nominal strength infinate or spot light for the direct light effects. looks like you already have the direct light in there, but it's possition and strength are all wrong.

 

once correctly possitioned, you might want to try some inverse square fall off on it with some area shads.

 

to speed up the rendering try turning down the dd to 1 (your new infill omnis will compensate for the lack of light bounces) and use a different AA filter. Perhaps 1x1 by 2x2 with a threashold of 20%. if you find your reflections are now too jaggy, put a separate render tag on them to individually up their AA qualities.

 

there's also a fair few max sample splotches in there. try lowering the main samples down a few hundred, then upping the max samples a 100 or 2.

[NOOXY]

THANKS strat ima try out these setteings and post an update.....