Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: Reality Render thread. A new beginning.

Pret-a-3D opened this issue on May 14, 2012 · 8453 posts


Arumbus posted Sun, 05 August 2012 at 2:04 PM

Quote - The Borrower(s)

 

Doc, LOVE the scene and the voyeur.  Just one little thing. IF realism is an objective. The light levels are considerably off for the amount of light fixtures (level too low) especially at that colour. (rule of thumb whiter/bluer light sources more efficient than yellow) They are too white!  Those type of lights are usually quite yellow and run about 2800K - 3200K depending on if they are incandescent or halogen.

You could have the light level where it is but then the colour may be even warmer (lower) as dimming incancesent sources makes them burn a warmer colour.

 

In case you are wondering, I was in the lighting industry for almost 30 years.

 

I will be interested to try some IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) files I can get for various fixures at some point. Evidently LuxRender supports them.  But only for Science sake.  I like to set my own (often unrealistic) light levels.

 

Just an FYI