Hey folks, When I make my materials in a testscene to determine correct color/reflections/… I use an HDRI to light my scene. But the annoying thing is, for some reason the materials I create don’t always work too well in other lighting conditions. So my question would be, what would be the perfect …

Yes, it’s to show how easy the process of switching to a textured environment is. You will notice in both cases intensity for the light is at 1.0 EDIT: oh silly me, Rivoli’s right. it ought to have been off, the render showing the ganzfeld result. Sorry, they were very busy days. As for how val…

I second pretty much what lele is saying. To extend the talk, since we almost never have calibrated refs here for what we usually do, i introduced in the lookdev stage the use of a hdr that tries to simulated a cg overcast environment, for example a scanning room. It’s not “scientifically correct” …

I’m glad I started this thread really. Very interesting approaches overall.

A bit further down the road of balancing the shader (and textures. and removing color cast in the refs. and slimming shader layers down.). The rendered SSS matches quite closely the control images (under the same lighting). Specular needs likely a tiny bit more work, but before you ask, yes, she I…

A contact sheet with the references and corresponding renders (latest set) of Emily. Notice how the one bit that I couldn’t nail down in numbers is the one bit obviously singing outside of the choir (namely, the specular component.). Renders in more pleasant and interesting lighting conditions wil…

Great stuff, I’ll look forward to digging around in your scene.

This is great Lele! Thanks… ps. I couldn’t download the full image to view in 1:1 locally with full screen. Anyone knows how to? :???:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Pm\_F5pbOyh0/VZz1KgdGpNI/AAAAAAAABLM/v4bBsAq4Y5I/w1065-h1198-no/Refs\_CS.jpg

umh. can’t be done, unfortunately. Will upload it along with the EXR version of it on google drive and link it. Gimme some time as i want to add a few of the bigger sized crops with more interesting lighting conditions, as well.

Thanks Vizioen! Unfortunately this one is not the 4k (4320 x 4860, 10.78 MB) original one…

Ideal lighting conditions for a material testing scene.

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Vizioen July 9, 2015, 9:52am 46

Doesn’t work here either.

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Ideal lighting conditions for a material testing scene.

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