Forum: Carrara


Subject: Photo Realism from Cararra?

StealthWorks opened this issue on Nov 16, 2006 · 49 posts


ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 27 November 2006 at 6:35 PM

I didn't use an HDRI background.  Just a faint shade of dark gray for the skylight.  I didn't think modo was using HDRI for their scene.  I'll look again.  I thought their scene was lit just by the bright square polygon to the left of the objects and a darkened skylight surrounding the scene.

I will try again using a brighter Anything Glows value (say 200% instead of 100%) and increase the photon count from 5000 which I forgot to do.  I normally crank it up to 20000.  If I increase my skylight brightness, it washes out the Anything Glows lighting.

Of course this will increase the render time in Carrara far beyond 1.5 hours on my system for a 640x480 image.  modo can already render the scene in less than 7 minutes.

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