scene too dark in photoworks
scene too dark in photoworks
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just playing around in photoworks and i've run into a problem. I added aprropriate appearances to all the parts in my assembly and picked a "scene". Unfortunately when i render the scene, all my parts show up very dark (they should all be shiny aluminum and stainless). However, the toolbox hardware is incredibly bright. I even added a point light and turned up the brightness and ambience, but there was no effect. What am i missing?






RE: scene too dark in photoworks
Have you enabled indirect lighting in the Options tab? This helps the light calculate into a more realistic behavior and can fill in with shadowed areas. Also, the magnitude of your lighting and scenery will affect the scene lighting (and final rendering). Check your screen gamma settings (in Options) and make sure the value is set to 1.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
RE: scene too dark in photoworks
gamma was already at 1 and indirect illumination is on. It just seems that the brightness and ambience sliders only seem to affect the hardware i imported from the toolbox, and not the rest of my assembly, wich remains dark and dull. Everything looks like it's been treated with black oxide and the hardware is glowing white hot.
RE: scene too dark in photoworks
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
RE: scene too dark in photoworks
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
RE: scene too dark in photoworks
how would you know if you have multiple appearances on one part? The method of selecting appearances first and then selecting parts is still awkward to me.
i selected a steel appearance and dialed the brightness down to about 40% and applied it to all the hardware. that helped a lot. I also picked a different scene that is inherently lighter. Still getting the hang of it, but i'm making progress. thanks for all the tips.
RE: scene too dark in photoworks
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Check your tabs on the left over the feature manager. Hit the decal/scene-looking icon (not sure if this is there in 2008--I'm not messing with that yet). This will show what materials are applied to what parts/bodies/surfaces. Kill off what you don't intend to have.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
RE: scene too dark in photoworks
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
RE: scene too dark in photoworks
If you set the Environment Tab to "use background color" your scene will be significantly brighter, assuming you have a bright background color set under the back/foreground tab.
60% of the time, it works every time.
RE: scene too dark in photoworks
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream? It's all right--we told you what to dream.
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