Wish

yossam · August 21, 2013, 12:21:01 AM

Suggestions......................?

masonspappy · August 21, 2013, 01:42:05 AM

From what I can see it looks great, but is way too dark

Dune · August 21, 2013, 01:53:13 AM

Yes, it's nice, but needs a fill light from the right.

kaedorg · August 21, 2013, 01:56:32 AM

very nice. i like the path and trees

i make a wish : to make views like that

reck · August 21, 2013, 03:52:56 AM

Looking good, but yeah a bit more light.

Dune, in your experience do you think it's possible to now do away with fill lights now? I was always of the opinion that you'd get better\more realistic lighting if you just stuck with the sun and then used GI and exposure to gain light in shadow.

mhaze · August 21, 2013, 03:58:28 AM

Looks like it may be good but it's too dark.

EoinArmstrong · August 21, 2013, 04:06:36 AM

It's lovely, but yeah needs more light. Rather than using a fill, try upping your GI to 1.7 or 1.8?

alessandro · August 21, 2013, 05:24:24 AM

Great atmosphere, just a little bit of more lighting and it's perfect!

inkydigit · August 21, 2013, 07:15:40 AM

toss a coin in?
looks great, really great!
maybe a little under exposed?
still lovely detailing!
cheers
J

Dune · August 21, 2013, 07:32:12 AM

I don't see why fill lights can't be used anymore, I do. It might be an interesting experiment to see what difference it yields, either fill light or higher GI.

yossam · August 21, 2013, 10:12:43 AM

I had a fill light to the right of the well and it made everything "flat". I upped the GI to 3,3,8 and bounce to 3, maybe higher?

Hannes · August 21, 2013, 10:32:03 AM

I have always been a great fan of the fill light setup, but the downside is you may get additional ugly shadows. If you turn off "cast shadows" for the fill lights, everything looks flat as mentioned above.
I'd suggest increasing "strength on surfaces" in the environment light tab. You may start with 1.5 and see how it looks. This way the darker areas are a bit lighter without losing the shadow details created by the GISD.

Dune · August 21, 2013, 10:56:43 AM

The fill light without shadow won't throw a shadow obviously, but only lights one side. So if you place them (it) carefully, you can still get depth. If you set them at 80-90 degrees of your camera angle for instance. And don't overdo the strength of course, just a little extra. I used them in my canyon as bounce lights from 45 degrees below.

yossam · August 21, 2013, 12:40:53 PM

Set the strength on the environment light to 1.5 per Hannes suggestion...............any better?

By the way, there was much use of the content provided by Planetside (and others). Thanks guys.

choronr · August 21, 2013, 02:06:36 PM

One of your best works; darn near picture perfect!