Rendering a home theater room

[jmartin]

Just a quick questions for ya. I am planning a new home theater in my home and wondered what your method of lighting would be for it. Should I use IES type lights or small vray spheres with normalize intensity on? Since this is my first interior with no openings for exterior light to enter I must rely on the lights inside. I tried a couple test renders using gamma color mapping and everyting seemed very washed out and dull with no contrast. Walls are a darker beige and ceiling a very dark blue. Would the gamma color mapping cause this? Unfortunately I do not have an image to show you at this time. I am using IRR medium & LC 500 for my initial renders. Any comments are appreciated.

John

[DaForce]

You can basically light it anyway you want. IES, spot lights, vraylights. Geometry lights. Its up to you.

Try IES they will give you a nice result!!

If things render washed out.. you need to adjust your textures accordingly. Try using the colorcorrect map with gamma set to 2.2 that may help alot.

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