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Adding an iray dome disables my emissive planes?

ParadigmParadigm Posts: 421
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I have a scene with two planes pumping light in at the windows that give it perfect lighting, but I have some grass and houses outside the windows to give it some realism and if I do double sided lights the area around the windows gets SUPER saturated. So I tried to do single direction planes and use a dome to light the outside (as well as get some extra light in the windows). When I render, however, it's like the planes are not even there. The inside is pitch dark!

I've tried pretty much every environment mode and it doesn't change anything. Any ideas?

Comments

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    Sounds like the same problem I always have with switching from double-sided to single-sided emissives — the emissive side is pointing away from where you want it. Turn them round 180° and see if that fixes it.

  • jb16jb16 Posts: 52

    Just make sure you have 'two-sided light' turned on in the emissive's surfaces tab.

  • Collective3dCollective3d Posts: 446

    It is possible the dome is overpowering the emissive plane.  Domes put out a ton of light.  You might have to increase the lumens on the planes by quite a lot, and adjust your EV as necessary.

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