Outside looking in

[glorybound]

I have a still that I am working on, but I can't get enough light into the space, or the glass isn't transparent enough. It might not be physically correct, but I would like to see more of the inside, but I can't get my glass to cooperate. Other than rendering with glass, and without glass; merging in PS, is there something I can do? I am using a vray skydome with a vray sun/sky system. Inside, I have furniture, and a floor lamp.

[joconnell]

Are you seeing much of the outside by comparison in the same frame?

[glorybound]

I see the outside in the reflection.

[DPS]

I've not done any interior stuff yet in vray but assuming same as mr, and if light portal isn't doing the trick? you can use a additional lights to help. It's not correct but who cares.

Edit - I replied before I saw the image, so portals arnt why you're after.

[glorybound]

I'll a light portal looking in, but that seems wrong.

[DPS]

I just edited my post

[cheerioboy]

If you add a reflection & refraction render element, can you see the interior well in the refraction element? I'd adjust the interior using that element and then tweak the window's reflection until there's a nice balance.

[joconnell]

Looking good!

Definitely turn up your lights inside - a photographer would either have to add additional lights to dress the inside or wait until dusk so that the inside and outside exposure levels drop. You can happily turn down your reflections too, a polariser filter on a lens can be used to limit the level of reflections in a real shoot so it's possible.

[glorybound]

I think I got it. It was a combination of a couple things, so after tweaking the scene, it rendering the way I want it.

[Lupaz]

I use "vray raw refraction" render element all the time. In post use Screen as the blending mode.
Also it seems to me that you have too much reflection. If the glass is too reflective, it could block light from going in AND the reflection itself blocks anything that could be visible inside.
As someone else said before, I also recommend you to add light inside.

[Macker]

Damn physics, eh?

[flino2004]

exclude the glass from GI...refraction 220 or more and reflection ior 1.5
BTW, your wood looks like plastic...what you had before was better in my opinion.

[glorybound]

I'll get back to this, maybe this weekend. Thanks.