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What's the newest/best way to light scenes with Iray?

DefaultNameDefaultName Posts: 388
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)
Hi there, I've been using Daz for about 3 years now. After a recent family passing, I was forced to relocate and rebuild my Daz library, and now I'm ready to render again. Problem is, I'm beginning to wonder if my methods are effective. I'll list a few: 1) I put emissive properties on plane-like objects like spheres and planes and move them and adjust intensity until I'm happy. I do this %90 of the time. 2) Using HDRI products from Daz3d 3) Assorted and adjusted spotlights 4) Fitting my own bright background colors into the render settings but then not drawing the dome I don't know, am I behind the times? Is there some cool new product or method? Thank you.

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  • JVRendererJVRenderer Posts: 661

    DefaultName said:

    Hi there, I've been using Daz for about 3 years now. After a recent family passing, I was forced to relocate and rebuild my Daz library, and now I'm ready to render again. Problem is, I'm beginning to wonder if my methods are effective. I'll list a few: 1) I put emissive properties on plane-like objects like spheres and planes and move them and adjust intensity until I'm happy. I do this %90 of the time. 2) Using HDRI products from Daz3d 3) Assorted and adjusted spotlights 4) Fitting my own bright background colors into the render settings but then not drawing the dome I don't know, am I behind the times? Is there some cool new product or method? Thank you.

    I started using DS a little over 3 yrs now. The first 2 yr I had trouble adjusting from a non PBR (older Poser)  to a PBR (Iray). I had to relearn all my lighting schemes. I discovered Jay's DS tutorials about 2 yrs ago and has been viewing them 5-6 times.

    WP Guru Lighting lesson 114 thru 117

    https://youtu.be/GG9iKhslT3c

    https://youtu.be/Nq719C6NRvk

    https://youtu.be/A0VRj2rcwJc

    https://youtu.be/6tHkkhjOYuI

    When it comes to lighting a scene, there are no short cut of easy way. Every scene is different. The types of lights and or a combinations of those will set the mood to your scene, You can have the same scene setup but with different lighting and it will look different.  I've found out if you understand each type of light, you will be able to better setup the scene you intend to.

     

     

  • margravemargrave Posts: 1,822
    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7048791/#Comment_7048791
  • CyrinadiaCyrinadia Posts: 143

    I use emissive objects as well. I tend to mostly use the W version. To ghost them, just set the opacity to .0000001 or so which hides them from showing up in reflections (eyes, for example). You may have to adjust the brightness. Sometimes set materials on the object I want to pop to emissive, but set it very very low. After that, it's all about key lights. I also learnt that if the light is far, or the emissive is scaled up, you have soft light/shadow, and if you want harder light/shadow, scale down or move it closer. Low temperatures are reds, mid is yellows, and 10k is whitest.

  • DefaultNameDefaultName Posts: 388

    JVRenderer said:

    DefaultName said:

    Hi there, I've been using Daz for about 3 years now. After a recent family passing, I was forced to relocate and rebuild my Daz library, and now I'm ready to render again. Problem is, I'm beginning to wonder if my methods are effective. I'll list a few: 1) I put emissive properties on plane-like objects like spheres and planes and move them and adjust intensity until I'm happy. I do this %90 of the time. 2) Using HDRI products from Daz3d 3) Assorted and adjusted spotlights 4) Fitting my own bright background colors into the render settings but then not drawing the dome I don't know, am I behind the times? Is there some cool new product or method? Thank you.

    I started using DS a little over 3 yrs now. The first 2 yr I had trouble adjusting from a non PBR (older Poser)  to a PBR (Iray). I had to relearn all my lighting schemes. I discovered Jay's DS tutorials about 2 yrs ago and has been viewing them 5-6 times.

    WP Guru Lighting lesson 114 thru 117

    https://youtu.be/GG9iKhslT3c

    https://youtu.be/Nq719C6NRvk

    https://youtu.be/A0VRj2rcwJc

    https://youtu.be/6tHkkhjOYuI

    When it comes to lighting a scene, there are no short cut of easy way. Every scene is different. The types of lights and or a combinations of those will set the mood to your scene, You can have the same scene setup but with different lighting and it will look different.  I've found out if you understand each type of light, you will be able to better setup the scene you intend to.

     

     

    Cool thank you for the tip, I'll watch those when I next have free time.

     

     

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