Lighting a room

Hello,

I started to use Daz Studio and I'm trying to light a room from the outside. Something like in this photo. This one it's made in maya with mental ray, but I'm sure I can achieve better results with v-ray.

My question is: what should I do to get this kind of shadow throw glass. If you know a tutorial or you can write it here it would be really helpfull.

Best regards

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218

    Use a distant light set to shine through the windows. Use Thin Glass shader for the glass in the windows and the table. Turn on the Architectural Sampler too.

  • hapciupalithapciupalit Posts: 125
    Fishtales said:

    Use a distant light set to shine through the windows. Use Thin Glass shader for the glass in the windows and the table. Turn on the Architectural Sampler too.

    Thank you for your replay, but I'm not sure how to use thin glass shader and where can I find Architectural Sampler

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218

    To use the Thin Glass shader, select the Glass in the scene tab; open the surface tab and select the Glass; find the Iray default shaders and apply the Thin Clear Glass one. The Architectural Sampler is under Render Settings/Optimization.

  • hapciupalithapciupalit Posts: 125
    Fishtales said:

    To use the Thin Glass shader, select the Glass in the scene tab; open the surface tab and select the Glass; find the Iray default shaders and apply the Thin Clear Glass one. The Architectural Sampler is under Render Settings/Optimization.

    Thanks... I found it but I got one more question. When you siad to set the light shine through the windows you ment just to point it to the window right? Because i still dont get it to work

  • hapciupalithapciupalit Posts: 125

    Sorry ito was my mistake that the light was too dim

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218

    To get more light increase the Lumens or go to Tone Mapping and change the settings to let more light into the camera. To change the colour of the light set the Temperature, lower is warmer/redder, higher is cooler/bluer.

  • hapciupalithapciupalit Posts: 125
    Fishtales said:

    To get more light increase the Lumens or go to Tone Mapping and change the settings to let more light into the camera. To change the colour of the light set the Temperature, lower is warmer/redder, higher is cooler/bluer.

    Thank you very much for your help... It's working just perfect

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218

    Your welcome. I'm glad you got it working.

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