darn lights control

dondraw

this scne is overlit in iray fiew, i searh for lights . no find. instrudtions say use headlamp only, and i cannot find that instruction on this page. i ask instructions where it is, and it doesn't reveal this to me. if i can turn off scene lights, only headlamp will show and that seems find now.

please advise, thanks.

don

nemesis10

The headlight is an attribute of the camera. Select the camera in the scene, go to the Parameter tab, and turn off the headlight of the camera (the three choices are on, off, and auto which works when you have other lights in the scene).  You want off.

Richard Haseltine

nemesis10 said:

The headlight is an attribute of the camera. Select the camera in the scene, go to the Parameter tab, and turn off the headlight of the camera (the three choices are on, off, and auto which works when you have other lights in the scene).  You want off.

It is a global setting in the Editor tab of render Settings, under General - a camera can override it, but by default all cameras 9and views) will respect it.

dondraw

thanks, folks. I got hopeful when i read your comments, but as i tried them, never saw the controls you mention.

my screencap shows what happened. strangely, when i clicked control buttons, the headlight disappeared for a second then returned. screencap below shows i did everything you spoke of and still light is "on". when i turned auto headlamp in render settings to 'never' it quckly slicked back to 'when no scene lights" but still light remined on??

and i had turned mac off and just restarted...

don

Richard Haseltine

Render Settings are, by default, saved with the scene so reloading the scene saved with the headlamp On  would reset the property 

dondraw

nope. not working. i wish one of you could be on my Mac and do it!

don

nemesis10

dondraw said:

nope. not working. i wish one of you could be on my Mac and do it!

don

I will se if I can create a little visual tutorial today...

nemesis10

So I rendered an image for you:

with Exposure Setting (13) (Render Tab> Tone Mapping)

 

Then I rendered the same image with a high exposure value (40)

 

 

So if you have the headlight of the camera off and you have the the exposure at a reasonable level, your problem should be off.