Rendering Quality, Materials and Lighting...

[rickjohnston]

Hi All.

I have a project that I am now at the stage to generate some renderings and having all sorts of issues with lights not showing or showing way too "white" hot not amberish. Also materials on certain features look totally different in the render compared to looking with shadows and realistic 3D view. I have deck railing posts that are black/gray tile and turning out green when rendered? Grass areas showing reflection like water and water area not showing anything like water reflection? Even colors on the house façade (brick and clap board) go from a more natural look not rendered to a very bright look rendered.

I have tried every setting possible different sun settings times of day, etc. nothing works.

See screenshots before and after (best quality setting)

Columns and posts look black/gray before render

Before 3D ViewAfter Render (best setting) exterior sun Columns and posts look greenish; grass toposurface looks shiny. Also even though hard to tell in the before view there is a small planting bed around light post and in rendered view it goes away or turns green like it isn't there? Another issue is I have sky turned on and set to few clouds to many clouds and even when rendering upwards from the gazebo no clouds appear and the sky is white not bluish white/gray as I have seen on many videos online.

I even went to the extreme of creating own colors and making them darker like for the gazebo roof should be very dark brown and looks tan/gold color in render.

TIA!

Cheers!

Rick...

[aRcHiTeCt.JM · Accepted solution]

... hi @rickjohnston 

... try to change the angle of the view

.... try different angles to see if the materials are showing the same

... try with lights and sun ... or only sun

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.... in most cases is trial and error

... it will depend on how you are rendering it

... BEST, MEDIUM, DRAFT ?

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

...adjust your point of view as well.  

[rickjohnston]

Thanks @aRcHiTeCt.JM and @barthbradley 

Those rendering are AWESOME and what I would like to achieve! I have tried almost everything like setting camera perspective from gazebo area looking up so as to see any potential sky/clouds and nothing just a blank background! I also tried the evening and early morning hours where you would think the interior lights I have tired to have shine out kitchen area onto the upper deck and I get a simply dark to almost black rendering! Lowest I try is 'medium' and then tried 'best' and also a 'custom' one and the materials/colors really get changed drastically. 

I realize from video tutorials rendering is T&R but I just watched one and he did nothing special used the medium with sky/few clouds and grass looked real, fountain area looked to be reflecting and he also went from early AM to late PM and that was only settings he changed and the exterior/interior lights popped and using same basic can lights and a few sconces one could see from the exterior looking into the building.

I'll keep plugging away my ultimate goal is to create hopefully stunning walk-around!

Cheers!

Rick...