I wonder whether it’s feasible to introduce highlight compressing.
One of the problems we have with our interiors is that we really need to crank up the exposure and ambient brightness to get enough light inside (often we don’t have time to set up interior lighting). That works great, BUT it really washes out the areas in and around the windows…
Corona has a great feature called “highlight compression” and “filmic highlights”. Both seem to fix the issue of the burned out areas incredibly well.
Any chance we can get something similar in Enscape?
Very important feature to have, especially in a software tailored specifically for Archviz. I was really baffled to see automatic exposure being in before proper tonemapping tools.
I see that it’s certainly useful, we’ll probably add that as extra options for the manual exposure. For us it’s easy to implement that but bears the risk of an exploding variety of settings. That’s why we don’t directly expose all kind of knobs, I hope you understand that. In this case I think a few more tonemapping parameters will help to combine the visibility of both bright and darks.
I appreciate you have to keep a difficult balance between easy of use VS exposing max of parameters, and you guys have done a great job with that so far.
That said, better tonemapping is on our top 2 priority list (together with a proxy/library system), so it’s great to read you are thinking of ways to move forward on this
Thanks Thomas! As a solution to an exploding variety of settings, how about give users access to additional “Advanced” settings via xml only? This would give advanced users access to advanced settings without overload average users with too many settings
The challenge with a bunch of advanced settings is that we still have to maintain them to make sure all possible combinations do not break Enscape. But we probably do it anyway at some point!
Btw, you can also export it as a HDR image and apply whatever tonemapper function you want in Photoshop or Lightroom.
I like the way like Vray provide it - the tone mapping can be applied at the output window. If the user like, he can enable different image corrections. Maybe it could be a way for Enscape too. So, the standard UI would kept clean. A small option popup of the output window could allow to set the burn value, white correction (best per pipette), contrast, exposure.
Perhaps you can get rid of Ambient Brightness with better tonemapping?
For the record: we tried the .exr and it has helped. However, one of the major things that our designers love about Enscape is the real time feedback which speeds up their production a lot. With .exr that’s lost. Also the .exr does not really work for video, 360’s or real time walkthroughs.
