bagginsbill opened this issue on Aug 13, 2008 ยท 158 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 22 September 2008 at 4:54 PM
To be honest, I've not worked out the exact lighting to maximize your simulation of radiosity.
Synthetic gives a good workflow. Use simple direct lighting to generally illuminate the props. Place any "glowing" props you like to create localized "area lighting". Render the IBL, save it, and now load that image onto an IBL light. Render again, save load. I don't know how many times it is worth repeating. However, do note that if your props generate more "reflected diffuse" light than actually arrives (not uncommon with some of the naive shaders that just add diffuse and specular together) then repeating this process will create "LASER" - LOL. Well not really, but you will be causing light amplification through over stimulation of your shaders.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)