"The HDRi that you can set in the HDRi tab is a spherical HDRi sky that is mainly used for lighting. It also can appear as the background for the rendering, but unless you have downloaded and selected a very high resolution HDRi file to use, they do…"
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Shadows and HDRi
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How do you control shadows when you use the HDRi sky + Background preset? When I use it, either the shadows are gone, or at some other angle than in the SketchUp file.Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Phil Nov 8, 2018.
Materials Libraries
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I was watching an old video tutorial on materials for iRender. The tutorial is from 2010 and references a ‘Material Library’ button that will access the nXt libraries. My version of the software…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Rich Hart Nov 8, 2018.
Nightime Render
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I am having trouble getting the right settings for a nighttime scene. I did get one where I can turn off the sky in the light balancer, thus getting a black sky, but I can't seem to do the same thing…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Rich Hart Oct 26, 2018.
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Phil replied to Phil's discussion Materials Libraries
"One more quick question please. Where is the proper place to indicate the HDR background in Setup Options: under 'HDRi', or 'Bgnd'?"
Phil replied to Phil's discussion Materials Libraries
"Thank you! Found them and successfully loaded them."
Rich Hart replied to Phil's discussion Shadows and HDRi
"An HDRI sky will have it's own location for the sun (if it has a sun). You would need to rotate the HDRi sky until the shadows line up with what you see in SketchUp. We don't have a tool to try to automatically rotate the HDRi sky for you,…"
Rich Hart replied to Phil's discussion Materials Libraries
"Try going to our downloads page:
https://renderplus.com/wp2/download/
and downloading and running the install for the libraries.
Look for:
Then restart SketchUp and see if they show up on that dialog."
Rich Hart replied to Phil's discussion Nightime Render
"There is a setting for making the light from artificial lights more visible for cases like this, where the Sun or Sky is overpowering the interior lamps.
There is no magic number that applies to all cases, you just need to play with it to see if…"
Phil replied to Phil's discussion Nightime Render
"I have added lights to my test model for an interior rendering, but when I select Interior With Sun, the lights do not render. They do render when I select Interior No Sun. I would like to have the light from the exterior show thru the windows, but…"
Rich Hart replied to Phil's discussion Nightime Render
"Just the ones on our web page:
http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/wk/IRender_nXt_Tutorials.htm#Written_Tutorials"
Phil replied to Phil's discussion Nightime Render
"Thank you Rich! This was very helpful. Is there a tutorial somewhere that explains all the settings in more detail? - Phil"
Rich Hart replied to Phil's discussion Nightime Render
"Usually, we point people to the Brightness control to make a rendering a night scene, but as you say, that doesn't work with background images. I imagine that selecting a background image that is already a night sky would work, or using a high…"
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Nightime Render
I am having trouble getting the right settings for a nighttime scene. I did get one where I can turn off the sky in the light balancer, thus getting a black sky, but I can't seem to do the same thing if I have an image as the background. Can someone please guide me in the right direction or point me to a tutorial? Thank you!See More
Phil replied to Render Plus's discussion How to make materials white
"I've added a 20% glow to a color and painted some elements with that color. I see no difference however when I render. Is there a setting in the render dialogue that needs to be looked at?"
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