Tips and Tricks for use with Microspot Interiors #8:
Working With Renderers
The best way to set up the lighting of a 3D Model.
Creating a 3D model and a 3D interior scene require 2 different styles in lighting. The interior scenes will use the default methods with sun, ambient and any other light sources you add, whereas rendering a 3D model requires a little more attention to the lighting aspects of the scene and also the renderer you use. Over the years I have been able to develop a working method when wanting to render a 3D Model in Interiors Pro using the RayShade renderer, where by the use of point lights and sun direction with the Ambient light turned off. The key points to remember are:
– Always turn the Ambient light off, so that the model does not get over exposed by light.
– Make sure the sun light is pointing at the model, coming from the opposite direct to where the camera is looking at.
– Add point and spot lights to the scene and control their brightness using the Info palette.
– Make the background color of your document black so that it does not create a washed out effect when rendering.
If you use these techniques when rendering with the RayShade renderer, you will get a more realistic looking effect to the reflections and the surfaces that you have.
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