how to light an exterior in the evening?

[fabrizio]

I've to light an office building (exterior render in the evening).
Which is the best way and the fast way to light the rooms? with vray lights on celings or with vray light materials on the celings?
I think that omni with vrayshadows and area shadows is the worse way...or am I wrong?

thanx

[TutanMark]

Usually i like to put vraylights close to windows, inside the room. This give to the room soft light, depending from the multiplier... of course.

Remember to set double sided

Ciao,
Marco

[fabrizio]

thanx TutanMark.

BTW can you show an image done with vraylight at the windows?


thank you

[TutanMark]

Sure,

here is an example i did times ago.



I know its not perfect.. but deadlines... you know

Ciao,
Marco

[tbkelima]

wow , its nice.
can you post the 3dsmax file with the setting if possible.. i want to achieve that effect from you.

[fabrizio]

It's really great!

Congratulations TutanMark

[TutanMark]

Thanks,

Well.. settings are not so special.

Environment is a dark blue (like the background) , multi = 2

1 direct light as moon light for shadows, with a multi = 0,5 and color medium grey (with a touch of darkblue)

Street lights are IES

Vraylights (windows) multipliers around 8/12.

That's all.

Max file with trees .. around 150 megs.. ..

Hope this helps
Marco

[tbkelima]

thanks, for the setting,
i ll try it.. and for direct light outside , is using vray shadow w/ area or not ?

thanks

[vince_1972]

nice

do you have a screen shot ?

Vince

[TutanMark]

@vince,
Thanks

This is the only one i have, don't know if it helps. For this work i imported a dwg file, using the old max5 dwg import.

Click for Screenshot

@tbkelima
Of course vrayshadows... dont remember if with or without area... i think so.