Hi Friends,
I am really awed by the development of enscape and how easy and efficient it is to render scenes fast and effectively. I know your development team is working real hard to fine tune the software. But I would surely like to see some added features in them.
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Control over diffused lighting in the scene. (Ambient lighting) . Most of the current light either wash out the interior scene or they give hard shadows. You should try to introduce diffused ambient lightings.
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It would be really great to export the images in different layers. Like reflection layer, refraction layer etc. It will help many users to Fine tune for Post Production.
I am really happy to see the development of Enscape so far and I am sure it would be the most favored rendering software very soon.
Good Luck to you all.
Hello @neotronx ,
welcome to the Enscape forum.
Our goal is to build a simple to use and realistic renderer. As such we have a real time global illumination solution to provide realistic ambient light. It’s not perfect, but with each version it gets better and more accurate. If you have locations that are to dark, there is a good chance, that it will be to dark in reality. One of the slightly confusing aspects is the auto exposure control, it works really hard to normalize the image, but occasionally a bright or dark spot can bring it off balance. (Like on real camera.)
Have you already found our Material-ID and Depth export options. It’s not quite what you want, but if you want to do post processing, it is a big step forward. Part of the problem with your request is that to a certain degree, some of the information does not exist in a simple savable form. We already have a feature request for something along those lines, I have added your up-vote.
Nice to hear that you like our software.
Striving for realism is not the always ‘realisitic’ in architectural workflows. We don’t have the tile to properly light every interior space with artificial lights. That might work when you are making a handful of shots in a small space, but if you are outputting hundreds of images a week in large projects, it’s not feasible.
But we still would like good looking interior renders. So it’s in this context that ‘unrealistic’ diffuse lighting would be helpful.
@Pieter_2 I understand where you are coming from. Our goal it to make a product that is simple to use, adding yet an other slider does not help. On the one hand you can achieve almost everything you would with with an ambient light, by setting the exposure and playing around with the settings in the image tab. On the other hand you can really mess up your settings and think the renderer is broken. Keep in mind most users of Enscape are not VFX artists and as such we try really hard to balance usability with power.
I understand and agree with your position on adding an extra slider or feature. I just wanted to stress that image quality is also important in ‘unrealistic’ scenes.
My biggest problem is that the auto exposure is thrown off in conditions with high contrast and interior (low light) conditions. If you have a room with 1 black wall and 3 white walls and a high exposure, the black wall looks light Grey. This btw does not happen when the material is a metal, but it’s very apparent with regular materials.
@Pierer I have found a feature request to improve the exposure quality, I have taken the liberty to add a +1 on it for you.
I think that there should already be a feature request to add some sort of ‘exposure lock’ button, like half-depressing the shutter button on any modern camera (or pointing a phone camera somewhere and ‘locking’ the exposure before framing the image.)
I see it working as a temporary ‘exposure shift’ for the auto-exposure, so that it becomes a semi-auto exposure while a key is held down. This would narrow the ‘sample area’ used to calculate the auto exposure when the key is initially depressed (centered on the camera center), use this setting while looking around and revert to the the key is released.
(I would also display the change to the settings while the key is held down so that the user could manually change the actual exposure to match if required.)
I understand why that would be helpful for images, but it wouldn’t work for live walkthroughs (which for about half our clients is the preferred method of communication).