Chuch Lobby

[glorybound]

About as average as you can get. What can I do to make this look better? I thing I like the lighting and v-ray settings, but it looks to much like a cheaper render engine like Accurender.

[tbny]

Am far from the right person to give any advice but the image seems very dark. Could you beef up the general ambient light or increase the intensity of you light sources (or add invisible lights to the scene?)

I suppose this has partly to do with the generally dark materials in the scene. Is the ceiling supposed to be black-ish? Maby slightly brighter materials would get the light bouncing around the space a bit more?

tbny

[percydaman]

pretty dark and dreary. any photoshop at all? If not, remember your work as a 3d artist doesn't end after the render is done, its just the beginning. photoshop photoshop photoshop.

[glorybound]

Church Lobby

I actually did do some post, but I'll tweak some more.

[jophus14]

A quick fix to brighten the image up in photoshop is to duplicate the layer and switch it to Screen as a Layer Type and then play with the opacity.

[glorybound]

Church Lobby

I will try that. I am having the hardest time with those can lights. I tried everything and I just can't get enough light out of them.

[percydaman]

really? what kind of lights do you have in them? don't be afraid to just use direction spot lights. I do all the time.

[Sazzle74]

Hi, I'm new here and this is my first post so I don't have anywhere near the knowledge of everyone else but how about a VRAY override material for the dark blue carpet as another idea. I often use this if I've got very dark flooring...

[percydaman]

Hi, I'm new here and this is my first post so I don't have anywhere near the knowledge of everyone else but how about a VRAY override material for the dark blue carpet as another idea. I often use this if I've got very dark flooring...

the man speaketh the truth...

[glorybound]

Override material

Can you explain that more?

[Sazzle74]

the man speaketh the truth....

The man is a laydeee!!!
Hi Glorybound, yep no problem.

Take material already created for the carpet
Select VRAY override material from the material map browser
Keep old material as sub
In Gi Material, create a light grey material.

This will still give you the carpet as it is but it will reflect GI as a much lighter material.

[jophus14]

If you put a VrayOverride material as your carpet then the color wouldn't bleed onto the other materials making the room darker from the color of the carpet. Is this the correct explaination?

[percydaman]

actually, apparently your a lil car and I'm a bunch of white boxes falling to the ground for no apparent reason at all.

[percydaman]

If you put a VrayOverride material as your carpet then the color wouldn't bleed onto the other materials making the room darker from the color of the carpet. Is this the correct explaination?

basically yes. of course it all depends what color you use for your override material.

[sea2stars]

Those cans seem pretty small for the space. Yeah.. directional spots would help; usually it doesn't have to be lit correctly, just as long as it looks correctly lit. Do those sconces throw any light into the scene?

Also.. that stair and railing...