bagginsbill opened this issue on Feb 09, 2006 ยท 68 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 02 December 2008 at 4:47 PM
Reduce the hither to move the artificial clipping plane closer to the camera.
If you have nostril glow even with RT shadows, it may be you are using a lot of IBL?
With IBL, you have to use ambient occlusion and enable raytracing.
The shadows from a directional light can only neutralize the light coming from that light. A complete shadow will effectively shut off a spot or infinite light, but that won't stop the surface from reflecting your IBL light.
Quite often people use too much IBL because they want to fill in the darkness. But the darkness is usually not the result of insufficient light. It is because you need to gamma correct your image. Once you start gamma correcting, you'll quickly realize you had the lights as much as 3 times too bright, trying to compensate for the dark areas.
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