Office Building with Conference Room Items: Where are the Lights?

mwokee

Purchased "Office Building with Conference Room Items." In the promo it says it includes "Iray Render Set up." What exactly does that mean? I was expecting some sort of lighting preset. If there is one, I can't find it.

 

So I've been struggling trying to get some decent lighting set up and have been failing miserably. The promo includes pictures that show the potential, if we had set up some sort of light configuration to create promo images, why couldn't we have included light presets with the product?

 

Please tell me I am doing something wrong. Otherwise I'm going to have to knock some heads together, it's just dumb not to include a light preset for something like this, especially considering the cost.

 

Please, please, please let me be the one doing something wrong! Thanks for any help.

Richard Haseltine

Iray Render settings may include a setting for HDRI dome map or SunSky, but would not include any locat lights other than that.

mwokee

Richard Haseltine said:

Iray Render settings may include a setting for HDRI dome map or SunSky, but would not include any locat lights other than that.

 

The default set up does not include any lighting so what you're referring to, it must be turned on manually? Would you or someone explain how this would be enabled? I'm not familar with HDRI dome map or SunSky. Thanks

Richard Haseltine

If you go to Edit>Preferences (DAZ Studio menu>Preferences for a Mac) and look at the scene tab is the option to Ignore on load set for Render Settings? If so unset it and try reloading the scene file. I don't see a separate render settings file in the readme's file list.

mwokee

Richard Haseltine said:

If you go to Edit>Preferences (DAZ Studio menu>Preferences for a Mac) and look at the scene tab is the option to Ignore on load set for Render Settings? If so unset it and try reloading the scene file. I don't see a separate render settings file in the readme's file list.

 

Thanks for the help but no such luck. I sent a note to support asking the product be updated with a light preset. For goodness sakes, that was already done for the promo image so the work is already done, I don't understand why they didn't include.

 

Unless, of course, i am doing something wrong.

Former DAZ Customer

Well, what I did was apply the Iray Uber shader to everything, then I made the Corridor Light and Fluorescent surfaces emissive.  I did add an Iray skydome so there'd be something to see outside the windows.  That's it.  Then you can adjust their output to taste and add whatever spot lighting you want for your subject(s).