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Hello all…I am new to vray but not new to rendering…Been doing this for about 13 years now and lately we have been using 1 light dome for our lighting.. If I delete all the lights and start from scratch…What should I use…A direct light from above? Lighting has always been my weakpoint…so any tips are helpful…We mostly do Architectural renderings if that helps.

Thanx

Eric Camper
Studio3D
www.dbfinc.comstudio3d

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check this website out. Has a couple tutorials with scene files. Very informative.

http://www.osmosis.com.au/info/tutorials.htm

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Thanx man…I shall check it out…

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Hi Eric. I was in the same boat as you. Basically the skylight in your vray environment settings take the place of the lightdome. Keep your directional light (sun) and turn on GI. Then it’s a matter of endlessly tweaking settings to get the desired results. The skylight has a multiplier just like any light to adjust it’s intensity. GI settings also have multipliers along with sample settings that affect speed/quality, for starters I just use the presets. And it’s very helpful to always save the irradiance map and reuse when possible to avoid recalculating it every render.

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Hi Eric,
Take a look at the archive section page 19, Vlado the legend posted some sample scenes there which i found useful just to see the settings he used.

Cheers,
TD

P.S. I’m new to v-ray also similar boat etc.

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here is something i wrote as well
http://www.vray.info/topics/t0107.asp

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here is something i wrote as well
http://www.vray.info/topics/t0107.asp

I used that doc when I was starting out, it has served me well :wink: Thanks for writing it!

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anytime. what good is this forum if we cant be helpfull to one another