Lighting Scenes

[Anonymous]

Hey lee Griggs can you please explain your lighting setups on these are they just only one skydome light with no other light including the car interior render.

[lee_griggs · Accepted solution]

https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5ARNTUT/Denoising+a+Room+Interior

The others just use a skydome light.

[Anonymous]

Is there something I'm getting wrong is it just the default Arnold sky or there's an hdr plugged to it...how are there reflections in the head scans eye. I'm just confused.

[lee_griggs]

HDRI ->Skydome light color. What is confusing?

[Anonymous]

No now i get it...i just thought it was the plain skydome color i didn't know you were using an HDRI....but for interior scenes which is more recommended and gives better results skydome or area lights on windows?

[lee_griggs]

Please read this.

[Anonymous]

I've read it before. I was trying to achieve this type of lighting Beautiful-Examples-of-Scandinavian-Interior-Design-Decoration-In-Scandinavian-Interior-Design.jpg But my version is always shitty and dark particularly with this scene Scandinavian test.png this is even with area lights...

[lee_griggs]

1. Skydome light (no HDRI).
2. Portal lights at windows.
3. Ray Depth 4.

[Anonymous]

Ok, Thanks I'll try increasing the ray depth to 4 and post results later.

[lee_griggs]

Which plugin are you using? If it's MtoA make sure that you are using Color Management with something like a Unity View Transform.

[Anonymous]

No, I'm using C4dToA

[lee_griggs]

Information about ACES and color management can be found here.

[Anonymous]

It's definitely better... I think any lighting problem I'm facing is because maybe I failed to guess all the light sources in the reference.