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samuel_bubat wrote:
Well for my part a physical correct sunlight look is worth much more
than adjusting a sun by day and time because
1. If morning, highnoon or evening. It´s just the color and intensity that changes (below the line). All of this can be adjusted by the color and intensity of sun and skylight . We are artists. Do we want a sunlight system dictating our lighting ?
I want control
And I think if you make yourself some presets for different daylight situations with and IESSun,high environment multipliers, and pre adjusted
Log. Exposure vray is even easier to handle than Maxwell where you have
to guess the position of the sun to get a specified lighting.
2. My customers usually want a specific light situation. They don´t care
if it´s physically correct or not. Sometimes the lighting is finished
and they want it more yellowish, more white or a little change of the position etw. This is not easy to tweak if everything is physical correct. If my customer wants a specific lighting i can´t tell him that´s impossible because it would be physical incorrect. Can you ?
3. As you pointed daylighting is quite complex so..
How often do sunsets for example look similar. The light situation
is different every day depending on pollution, haze layers, clouds,
the alltitude you are , the region in the world and the temporary condition
of your eyes.
Does Maxwell take care of these factors ? I doubt
I can imagine some situations where a sunlight system can be helpful.
At least it should offer you any possibility to make fine adjustment
in color brigthness and light position. (Wich makes it physical incorrect)
But in my opinion this is a tool for scientist and not for artists !!
Nice to play around with.. but useless for my kind productions.
The sunlight look is all I (and probabely most other users) need. vray does a very good job with IES Lighting and Exposure !!
I really think that point goes to Vray
cheers
Well for my part a physical correct sunlight look is worth much more
than adjusting a sun by day and time because
1. If morning, highnoon or evening. It´s just the color and intensity that changes (below the line). All of this can be adjusted by the color and intensity of sun and skylight . We are artists. Do we want a sunlight system dictating our lighting ?
I want controlAnd I think if you make yourself some presets for different daylight situations with and IESSun,high environment multipliers, and pre adjusted
Log. Exposure vray is even easier to handle than Maxwell where you have
to guess the position of the sun to get a specified lighting.
2. My customers usually want a specific light situation. They don´t care
if it´s physically correct or not. Sometimes the lighting is finished
and they want it more yellowish, more white or a little change of the position etw. This is not easy to tweak if everything is physical correct. If my customer wants a specific lighting i can´t tell him that´s impossible because it would be physical incorrect. Can you ?
3. As you pointed daylighting is quite complex so..
How often do sunsets for example look similar. The light situation
is different every day depending on pollution, haze layers, clouds,
the alltitude you are , the region in the world and the temporary condition
of your eyes.
Does Maxwell take care of these factors ? I doubt
I can imagine some situations where a sunlight system can be helpful.
At least it should offer you any possibility to make fine adjustment
in color brigthness and light position. (Wich makes it physical incorrect)
But in my opinion this is a tool for scientist and not for artists !!
Nice to play around with.. but useless for my kind productions.
The sunlight look is all I (and probabely most other users) need. vray does a very good job with IES Lighting and Exposure !!
I really think that point goes to Vray
cheers
It is perfectly possible to create unrealistic results with Maxwell. I know because I've done it! There are plenty of controls available for even the novice user to pervert the laws of physics.
For a sunlight system, you can use the built-in sky dome and set it to whatever color you want or create your own and use an emitter material. For the sun, you can create a sphere of any size you want with an emitter material of any color you want.
With the Physical sky, you control time, date, location, turbidity, ozone and water in the atmosphere. You can toggle sunlight on or off.
With Tone Mapping, you can adjust contrast, film gamma and monitor gamma.
With the Maxwell camera, you control DOF and light levels just as you would with a physical camera's fStop, lens length, and Shutter speed.
For a software with so few knobs, the possibilities seem endless. And there are many features yet to be implemented, as Maxwell is still in Alpha. For me, right now it is something to play with and I feel I've already gotten my money's worth.
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