My tree stays dark...

[archonforest]

This tree is just not catching the sunlight
Any idea why? From the shadow on the ground u can see the position of the sun. That indicates that the tree should be bathing in the light but it is not. It might be a faulty tree? Now that sounds funny

[yossam]

Which tree is it?

[Bjur]

Object wise I'm a total greenhorn I have to admit.

But guessing you have Ray trace objects checked, the colors are looking strange in all (ground e.g.).
Like wrong/cranked standart settings like light, gamma or contrast which leads to very bright and very dark parts and killed midtones.

Interesting case I could learn from it's solution as such kind of problem could hit myself soon..

[archonforest]

This is a silver birch from Marc ...
and there is another tree (different kind) couple of meters away and that one takes the light as normal...

[yossam]

What are your light settings?


Are you using the .tgo or the .obj?

[archonforest]

.tgo
The light settings are the default.
I just building up the scene and playing with the trees...etc. See this screenshot.
The left tree is okay. The right is evil dark

[yossam]

Could you upload the tgd?

[archonforest]

Here u go...

[archonforest]

to Bjur:

Yeah i am also greeny with objects...this is my 1st try. The color looks sh... for sure. I will need to figure out how to tweak the colors of objects...

[kaedorg]

on the silverbirch object
in the birchleafshader translucency is 10 ??

Could come from this

David

[archonforest]

geee where is this stuff " birchleafshader translucency"
I looked everywhere but I cannot see anything like this. I use TG2...

[kaedorg]

tg3 version

i modified the translucency to 0 and saved a new file attached here

check your render withit in tg2 and see if it changes anything

David

[archonforest]

now both trees are dark
the power of the dark side
In TG3 the right tree was okay?
Maybe time to upgrade for me...to 3

[kaedorg]

normal
usually translucency is 0 by default.
nothing to do at 10. because it shoulde be from 0 to 1

cool idea to upgrade 
by the way i attach another one  i put the translucency to 0.5 for both trees

David

[archonforest]

Wowow...this is a big change my friend

The trees are getting out of the darkness and....the the color of the leaves looks way more natural than before!

Guess 0.6 or something will handle everything...