Lighting

hey Im using the new Irender Nxt plugin. I added some lights but i dont think its working properly or i'm just doing something wrong. Im trying to get that entire dark area to have light but its not working. I tried using spot light,ceiling light and point light nothing worked it all comes out the same. Also im trying to get lights under the tents and its the same issue. Please i need some help.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on June 12, 2016 at 10:00am

Can you post the model so that one of us can take a look at the problem?

Or upload it to:

http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/uploads/

to send it just to Render Plus Software.

Thanks,

Rich

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Permalink Reply by Sketchit on June 12, 2016 at 10:21am

Sent Rich

Rich Hart said:

Can you post the model so that one of us can take a look at the problem?

Or upload it to:

http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/uploads/

to send it just to Render Plus Software.

Thanks,

Rich

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Permalink Reply by Sketchit on June 12, 2016 at 12:03pm

Model has been sent

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on June 13, 2016 at 11:44am

I haven't really been able to do too much with this model, since it takes so long to extract for me between investigations. I do see that if I turn the Light Balance way up, then I can start to see the lights in the tents.

Hopefully I might get a chance later this week to trim this model down to a single tent and light and see what the settings would need to be to get the effect that tyou are looking for.

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Permalink Reply by Sketchit on June 13, 2016 at 11:47am

What can i do to make the model smaller for you to extract?

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on June 13, 2016 at 11:50am

Maybe just ave a single tent and light in it.

Then we could play with the settings and see what they need to be.

If you could upload a sample file here onto the forum, perhaps others could try it too, to see what needed to be done.

I believe you can put an .skp file in a .zip file and upload it to a reply here.

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Permalink Reply by Sketchit on June 13, 2016 at 12:02pm

here's the zip file

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Permalink Reply by Sketchit on June 13, 2016 at 12:17pm

here's the zip file

Attachments:

UpdateDamaineSketch1.skp 2.zip, 2.3 MB

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on June 14, 2016 at 1:05am

I'm not sure just what we want to accomplish.

First, I took the SketchUp model selected everything, copied it to the windows clipboard, opened a new SketchUp drawing, and pasted the model into it.

This has the effect of resetting any settings which may have been made (except things in the geometry)

Then I rendered the model, and got this rendering.

This is probably correct, because with a tent in the sun, you wouldn't necessarily see the lights in the tent.

Then I cut the sun way down using lighting channels. (Notice that I unchecked "Lock Luminescence" which lets the picture itself remain at the same overall brightness, which lowering the amount of sunlight, andraising the amount of artificial light. And I got this result:

Then I lowered the overall brightness to 45% to get a darker image:

I have attached the SketchUp model after making these changes:

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on June 14, 2016 at 1:08am

Here is a zip file

Attachments:

Damaine Al.zip, 2.2 MB

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Permalink Reply by Sketchit on June 14, 2016 at 7:51am

thanks

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Permalink Reply by Russell D. Houlden on June 16, 2016 at 11:08am

Couldn't resist testing this model.

No sun - natural light is from HDRi sky/background. Didn't make any adjustments to lighting, but I did change the top of the tent, used "Edit Material" and selected the Preset "Shade" - which causes the tent fabric on the top to behave as a lamp shade. Then just rendered.