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[HumbleChief]

It's really not that much more involved.

Use the 'light bulb' icon and adjust the two sun angles in the light dbx.

Leave environmental light and photons off while you're testing to speed things up and try different sun intensities. You can also use the 3D defaults for adjusting exterior ambient as well to brighten/darken a scene.

If you have the env. light and photon off you can get an idea within 30 - 40 second of where you're and start adjusting.

[Chiefer]

Here's my exterior setting:

Environment light - Sky=0.5
Sunlight brightness= 6, sun color yellow orange.
AO: minimum 0.1; max.: 2 or 3

[Chiefer]

So do you change any of the settings ever on the advanced tab?

There is no other settings to adjust in the advanced tabs except for those radio buttons, I don't use that tab.

[Chad Cardin]

Thanks guys! I will check this out. I guess I built up the exterior raytraces to be more then they are since I thought there was a lot more involved with sun, environment etc.

Thanks for the specs!

[marty]

Jintu that is a really good ray-trace. Its a great example of what Chief is capable of - nobody should be able to find fault with that level of quality.

Unfortunately it makes mine look very basic!

[Chiefer]

Jintu that is a really good ray-trace. Its a great example of what Chief is capable of - nobody should be able to find fault with that level of quality.

Unfortunately it makes mine look very basic!

Thank you.

You can do it too. Other users have also posted settings that you can follow.

[HumbleChief]

Here's my exterior setting:

Environment light - Sky=0.5
Sunlight brightness= 6, sun color yellow orange.
AO: minimum 0.1; max.: 2 or 3

Nice Jintu and your sun angle is set nice and low to get those long shadows - important IMO.

[marty]

I guess I am too impatient to take the trouble with getting everything set up correctly in the first place. I want to concentrate on the design then hit a button and get results like yours even though I know the secret to top quality is in the lighting and material settings.

I think a large number of users work the same way.

[Chad Cardin]

Jintu,

Great rendering! I had to go back and see it, I skipped over it reading the specs and then when I saw everyone talking about something I missed, I had to go back. Looks fantastic! Love the unique elevation! Of course the sunlight and that looks great too!

[Chiefer]

Shadows on grass help hide flatness of its texture I guess.

[Chiefer]

I guess I am too impatient to take the trouble with getting everything set up correctly in the first place. I want to concentrate on the design then hit a button

I think a large number of users work the same way.

I understand but things will change as Phoebe gets better and better....and faster.

[dgavin]

Jintu,

Yes, very nice RT!. THe things that make it nice are not only the settings but the composition. Nicely designed house to begin with and the sun coming through and shadowing the front of the house adds texture. I think some miss that just good RT settings will not make a bland scene look great. It takes design, composition and textures!

[Chiefer]

Jintu,

Yes, very nice RT!. THe things that make it nice are not only the settings but the composition. Nicely designed house to begin with and the sun coming through and shadowing the front of the house adds texture. I think some miss that just good RT settings will not make a bland scene look great. It takes design, composition and textures!

You are correct. Thank you!

[johnnyprc]

Jintu: How did you get the backlight from the outside to do that? Did you place a light outside??

[johnnyprc]

This is my first raytrace. Its too dark and many other issues around it since its my first but it only took a few minutes and looks decent.

Nice design - but as you say too drk. What I find interesting is that the low light creates a patern like a high setting ISO does on a DSLR camera. That is very interesting that the render engine places that noise into a low light setting too.