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Mike1158
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Student apartment

Post by Mike1158 » Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:11 pm

A small apartment with two levels. 16' X 20'.
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Re: Student apartment

Post by Fletch » Thu Sep 03, 2020 6:59 am

very good :^:



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hallway light looks "blown out" like it's too bright - my guess is that light powers are too strong, and should be lowered, then the overall lighting boosted with Exposure setting in the Render Dialog "Post Process".

I've recommended in the past that whites be set to 90% grey, but here's an idea...

Try setting all white surfaces (like white walls for instance) to 70 percent grey, and your darkest surface to 10 percent grey. Adjust all other colors to be relative to those extremes along that spectrum.

Then, when you light the space, the surfaces have a lot more room to "lighten" from the light. Or darken from shadows.

Run practice renderings without any furniture in the space to get faster tests as you adjust lights.
Adjust rendered image with exposure/tone map settings.

This should theoretically also reduce errors in calculations and increase render speed, shorten render times.

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Re: Student apartment

Post by Mike1158 » Thu Sep 03, 2020 10:04 am

Thanks Fletch, I will get it right. :hat:

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Re: Student apartment

Post by tuna57 » Thu Sep 03, 2020 2:28 pm

Good start Mike. Look forward to more. Also great advice from Fletch. :^:
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Mike1158
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Re: Student apartment

Post by Mike1158 » Sat Sep 05, 2020 9:30 am

Ta mate, I have had huge issues logging on here since my last post. Password not accepted, capcha that's illegible, weird.
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Re: Student apartment

Post by Mike1158 » Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:08 am

"Try setting all white surfaces (like white walls for instance) to 70 percent grey, and your darkest surface to 10 percent grey. Adjust all other colors to be relative to those extremes along that spectrum".

I must have missed how to do this, do you have a link please? :hat:

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Re: Student apartment

Post by Fletch » Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:47 pm

How to set white to 70% gray in SketchUp
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Re: Student apartment

Post by Mike1158 » Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:56 am

NOW I remember, thanks Fletch, my grey cells might need a recharge tho'. :^:

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