Attached Link: VRay users gallery

The lighting on some of the renders at that link is just astounding and I'd love to see if the Vue gurus here could get something close.  I know Vue is more for sweeping landscapes etc but it does a pretty good job with Poser content so you never know

Regards

Frank

Im going to say that the closest vue can get to that is with image based lighting. a feature that consistently makes it crash by the way.

Really?  I have never had any problems at all with IBL in Vue.  I also have seen Vue images that come close to that and don't use IBL, although I certainly haven't made them!  I'd love to see more on this thread.  We've gotten some good tips on outdoor lighting and settings, but I feel very in the dark still when it comes to indoor stuff.

those images didnt use IBL, but its a nice technique for realistic renders some times. as for indoor renders, the trick is to boost the gain on the radiosity. I just figured this out a few weeks ago. and then I suppose if you looking for somthing like the vray renders set the quality to maximum.

If you look carefully, bland objects which are near richly colored ones assume partly the "dominating" color, a dead give away that radiosity was used.

I'll have to try an HDRI map I think - I have some extreme hires ones somewhere so I'll give it a bash and thanks for the tip about boosting the radiosity gain.  I'd never figured out exactly what that was for