Trying to light a scene with a warm incandecent look, what would you use?

cdemerit

I'm trying to light a tavern scene with a warm incandescent light look, but keep getting to dark, too bright, too blue, too yellow looks....

If this scene ever finishes rendering, I'll post an image, but I'm just curious if you have a preset or prefered way to light a room so it looks like it's well lit with incandescent lighting.

Richard Haseltine

Which application?

StratDragon

if your not averse to doing post work with Photoshop or GIMP I would try that first, it's going to give you a lot more control over the final product.

cdemerit

Richard Haseltine said:

Which application?

Daz 4.7, beyond that it really doesn't matter, as I know the best way to learn these things is to play with settings /locations...

What I was really asking was a general something along the lines of "I use a linear point light set to color 259 255 188" or a I use 3 linears grouped together 1 at set at color 255 255 255, 100% intensity, 1 at 255 243 107 color, set at 75%, and 1 at 255 7 7 color set at 50%" or some other combo like that. or if there is a preset someplace that I haven't found yet that's set to incandescent.

if your not averse to doing post work with Photoshop or GIMP I would try that first, it's going to give you a lot more control over the final product.

It be honest, if I had any real skill in Gimp, I probably would never started with Daz. But point taken.

WendyLuvsCatz

a guaranteed way to get exactly what you want is to used an unbiased renderer like Luxrender via one of the DAZ plugins.
While I am certain it can be done in 3Delight just using mesh lights with the correct lighting profile would take the guesswork out of it and you can just whack em in and go!

FirstBastion

You need to do a little research on "Color tempertures" for lighting.

As mentioned the Reality/LuxRender unbiased renderer can help set it up easily,

or with DAZ Studio use some more yellowish-orangish lights to emulate incadescent.

cdemerit

FirstBastion said:

You need to do a little research on "Color tempertures" for lighting.

As mentioned the Reality/LuxRender unbiased renderer can help set it up easily,

or with DAZ Studio use some more yellowish-orangish lights to emulate incadescent.

Funny you mentioned this. In an earlier iteration of my reply included the comment of looking for 2.8K to 3K color temp, but I thought that might be too obscure.

I'm actually pretty familiar with color temps as I have used 10k MH bulbs for my corals for many years, and supplement my orchids winter light with 6.5k MH.

However, thanks for the recommendations of renderer plugins. Daz is a great program, but it is easy to get lost with all the plug ins/options.

FirstBastion

If you do come from a photography, videography, or cinematography background, then the Reality Plugin for DAZ Studio that allows you to render daz scenes with the unbiased LuxRender is absolutely a good choice. The lights in the Reality plug in, behave exacly like the real world lights you would expect. Falloff, bounce , color temperature. And the render results are stunning. Bit of a learning curve, but well worth it.

There's a few render threads around including http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/50021/

cdemerit

FirstBastion said:

Bit of a learning curve

Well, So far everything with Daz has been quite the learning curve, and it seems like I'm learning 20 programs at once