Quote - Most likely because she didn't add enough gain to the sunlight inside Luxrender. I'm not blaming her - most of us are learning this as we go ;).

The attached image was done with the skydome in place, but I changed the gain on the sunlight from 1.0 to 20.0. As you can see, there's plenty of bright light and shadow.

And yes, I spelled reclamation wrong...lol.

Laurie

Oh good, I'm not the only one who re-does images. You are absolutely right, Laurie... this whole Lux thing is a massive learning curve... pretty steep atm. I did a second render on that image with reasonably strong light, and the shadows showed up pretty much tout-suite. Now, in this 3rd go, I've set lights to IBL and shadows are pretty much non-existent. But, at dusk, when the sun's gone down and everything has that eery evening glow from the walls and everything, shadows tend to drop off. So, the effect is accurate, the lighting: too bright. If you look closely, there is a shadow directly under her shoes, and up the staircase.

The render now: very desaturated colours, hardly any shadows... just the way I want it. Gotta love this renderer:

Oh, and I know the shoes are wrong - I'm having a play with that leather material. going to make a black version, in a bit.

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