Achieving light thru window

[lewor21]

Hello everyone, I need help on how to achieve a daylight in an interior scene passing thru a window. I am a new user of MAX and still getting around it. attached file (a bathroom scene) is the image i am using to explore the max: In this scene i used mrSky, logarithmic exposure with 2500 physical scale, mental ray rendering. I was playing with the parameters but can't get the answer i want so i wanted to ask help from anyone here. And also comments for better outcome the next time. Anyone's help is highly appreciated. Thanks!

[SandmanNinja]

Hi Rowel and welcome!

 

By passing through the window, do you mean volumetric lighting? Light a shaft of sunlight? Or do you just mean some of the mrSun coming through?

 

You can drag a SkyPortal over the window - I'm a huge fan of them.

 

If you mean the first, I've had problems with Volumetric light and mrSun.

[lewor21]

Hey SandmanNinja, thanks for replying. I don't exactly know what all these

volumetric lighting,Light a shaft of sunlight,etc. means at the moment. But what i want to achieve is just a strong light coming thru the window like the light from the sun(?) I will try the SkyPortal if that's what I need but how can I do that? Where can I find the skyportal? thanks again

[lewor21]

SandmanNinja, sorry, I just checked on your website and I've seen all these interiors. That's what I want to have to my scene. Like those strong lights coming from an opening (windows/doors). Did you use SkyPortal with your interior perspectives? Then that's what i needed. How can I do that to my scene? Where can i find the skyportal and how is the parameters? I hope you can help me, thanks man. I will be grateful!

[SandmanNinja]

Hi Rowel,

 

I use Max 2009 and there is a SkyPortal under Create -> Lights

I use AutoGrid and drag a skyportal (it just looks like a rectangle or border, with an arrow in the middle) over any window or doorway in my scene.

 

I use a realistic lighting setup, meaning Under Environment (press 8), I use mrPhotographic and realistic camera settings.

 

For internal scenes, I use a shutter speed of 1/4 or 1/8 (sometimes as high as 1/30 if there are a LOT of windows), ISO 100 (ISO 400 can be used for interior scenes, but in Film Speak ISO 400 is very grainy. Not really an issue with artifical cameras, but I still use ISO 100), and an f/stop of 7.1 or 8 (for big depth of field, which doesn't really apply to virtual cameras).

 

I'm an architectural photographer and have been doing this for a long time. So I tend to think of lighting solutions as if it were a real house and I was photographing it.

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

What version of Max are you using?

[lewor21]

Hey Joel,

thanks again. Yes, I guess i already incounter this skyportal (i remember now) over the web. I've seen tutorials. But it's with max2008 and 2009 version. I am using max9 that's why I was a bit confused where i could get this skyportal. I guess i need to upgrade to max2008 or 2009 already. I just started with max early this year and didn't have enough time to explore yet. Anyways, thank you fro taking time to reply. I will try to explore other ways in the meantime until i can upgrade to higher version. thanks. keep on maxing!