Interior - Animated daylight

[KAKTUSDIGITAL]

Hi all,

I'm a little confused as to how best tackle a daylight animation of an interior going from day to night. My limitations is obviously time it takes to render each frame, so doing the brute/brute or brute/LC is kinda out of the question.

I also have some downlights which switch on when it starts getting dark. I'm confused as to which irradiance map and LC combination to use.

Any help much appreciated.


Henry

[Jer25]

This probably isn't the answer you are looking but if your are doing still shots it might work.

There is a script you can buy (http://www.evvisual.com/maxscript/script_multilight.htm) and animate your lighting with it. It could be much faster and easier than doing everything manually.

It's really decently priced and very handy. It makes editing your images quite simple as well.

[judderman]

I did this very recently and too was a bit confused as to how I should approach it. I did it as follows - animated a vray sun through a typical dawn to dusk arc (you could link it to a standard max daylight and turn the max daylight off).

At noon I had it the vray sun at 1 then simply animated the values for my other scene lights so when it started to get dark they turned on. I used irradiance map on medium-animation and brute force.

[KAKTUSDIGITAL]

thankyou both for your input. In the end the irrad/med-ani + brute force worked well. LC for secondary worked as well with faster times, but obviously didn't look as clean.