Light Presets for Iray?

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• MaxHancock Posts: 227

  May 2016

  If you are looking for presets, you go to your Render Tab, and then choose the Preset sub tab. From there you can use a lighting preset that you might have purchased.  The defualt iRay HDR is pretty good for ambient sunlight. You'll need to play around a lot to see what works.  

  Here's a beginner's tutorial:

  http://thinkdrawart.com/daz-studio-iray-tutorial-for-beginners

  There are many light presets you can purchase.

  DA Real World Lighting

  and DS Iray HDR Interiors are sets I used often. 

   
• MaxHancock Posts: 227

  May 2016

  For inclosed interiors... see if there is a light set up that came with the product.  The readme notes usually tell you where to find them. If not, you will need to set up custom lights. 
• Tobor Posts: 2,300

  May 2016

  mdmanouusoso said:

  Hi! I have an issue with light presets in closed environments. It does not show any light (Images attached)

  The lights you're trying to use are for the 3Delight renderer, not Iray. Only the latest interior sets come with lights with Iray presets; anything older than 6-9 months (or so) will only have 3DL presets.

  You are best off learning Iray lighting without interior scenery. Just start a new scene, add a base character, and reset all your Iray settings to the default (hit the Defaults button in the Render panel when Iray is selected as your renderer). You will automatically start off with the stock "Ruins" HDR image that is used for lighting. It'll also give you a background, which you can turn off by choosing the Environment panel in the Render tab, then turn Draw Dome to Off.

  If you'd prefer, you can purchase an Iray light set and try that out, but it likely won't be for this particular set you are using, and it almost certainly won't work right when you add an enclosed interior. The reason: like real lights, Iray lights do not penetrate walls or ceilings. The threads here contain many explanation of how to work with this. Spend an hour scanning the posts and you'll find many nuggets.
• MaxHancock Posts: 227

  May 2016 edited May 2016

  For a totally enclosed environment, you will need to use the spot lights, and point lights as you normally would, except, you will need to select the light and turn the Lumen to 100,000 above to see any affect. That's pretty normal for iRay. You can also control the warmth of the light with the Temperature slider.  Finally, to make soft shadows change the Light geometry to sphere and increase the height and width to 50 or more. The more spread a light has, the softer the shadow. It's really easy and works like real lights in that way.  Also, if you lare ooking through a camera then turn off your headlamp under the camera parameters.  I also turn the intesity of the HDR down to make it dark if I'm working with lights in an outdoor scene. 

  Post edited by MaxHancock on May 2016