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I wanted to test out Lavina again so I exported one of my recent projects and loaded it up.
First, one vray blend material wouldnt load up - it was just the diffuse color of the material; all bitmaps were ignored.
I redid it with a new vray material and that worked fine then. Dont know what was up with that. There is also part of the ceiling that is suddenly black...
Steel on the chairs also doesnt seem to work...
The big thing that is bugging me though that there doesnt seem to be a way to load HDRIs into the plane lights in Lavina. I am using HDRIs of studio equipment loaded into plane lights almost exclusively and am also using them directionally, which also isnt available. For me, these are crucial options since I am doing a kind of studio setup almost all the time, and not only natural lighting.
Are there plans to support at least hdris in rectangle lights? The suns size is also not changeable, right? I am often going for a softer shadows and adjusting vray suns size for that. I imported an HDRI for the environment since vray sky with sun isnt available, so there is a little difference in the look. the light rays on the wall I found a nice touch so I kept them in Lavina, while they are not there in the vray render, where instead we have a blue cast from the sky.
Either way I would probably have to rethink my workflow when using Lavina, but I am not sure if its doable without the directional options in the lights..
Check out the difference between Lavina and my vray render attached. I quickly adjusted all the lights exposure
First, one vray blend material wouldnt load up - it was just the diffuse color of the material; all bitmaps were ignored.
I redid it with a new vray material and that worked fine then. Dont know what was up with that. There is also part of the ceiling that is suddenly black...
Steel on the chairs also doesnt seem to work...
The big thing that is bugging me though that there doesnt seem to be a way to load HDRIs into the plane lights in Lavina. I am using HDRIs of studio equipment loaded into plane lights almost exclusively and am also using them directionally, which also isnt available. For me, these are crucial options since I am doing a kind of studio setup almost all the time, and not only natural lighting.
Are there plans to support at least hdris in rectangle lights? The suns size is also not changeable, right? I am often going for a softer shadows and adjusting vray suns size for that. I imported an HDRI for the environment since vray sky with sun isnt available, so there is a little difference in the look. the light rays on the wall I found a nice touch so I kept them in Lavina, while they are not there in the vray render, where instead we have a blue cast from the sky.
Either way I would probably have to rethink my workflow when using Lavina, but I am not sure if its doable without the directional options in the lights..
Check out the difference between Lavina and my vray render attached. I quickly adjusted all the lights exposure
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