Forum: Carrara


Subject: Need Help with GI

res1yfb1 opened this issue on Aug 27, 2004 ยท 26 posts


ShawnDriscoll posted Sat, 28 August 2004 at 12:42 AM

I can't tell from your images what's not to like. I only get good results if I have the Lighting Quality set to Best and object AA/accuracy set to 1 pixel. I get very good results if I have Lighting accuracy set to 1 pixel instead of 16 pixels.

The rest I can do is hope I have decent materials/textures for my objects. They influence the lighting in a scene as well.

What is your light source? Sky light? Or a glowing plane outside your windows? What is the brightness of it? 100%? 150%? 750%? I've found that brightening up a light in Carrara 3 only makes a render brighter, not better.

Also. Make sure your objects are to scale. For example: the wall is 96 inches high and not 1.5 inches high. The rendered result is the difference between a dollhouse look and a real living area look. Some of the living rooms in the Scene Wizard are small enough to fit in a shoe box. Resizing them to full-scale improves their scene renders 10x.

I ordered the C3 Handbook from Amazon the other day. I hope it has similar details mentioned in it like the ones I've been discovering on my own through trial and error.

www.shonner.com

Message edited on: 08/28/2004 00:47

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