Question regarding Ring of Light for Luxus?
Illmatic
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Product: http://www.daz3d.com/ring-of-light-lux-environment-lighting-for-luxrender
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Hey everyone, I hope your New Year is going great. My situation is that I got Ring of Light for Luxus. However, it has not been rendering correctly for some reason. To go into detail, my scene uses the Trinity Atrium building. Basically, the scene is a figure surrounded by 4 walls, and the Ring of Light surrounding that. The way I understand it, RoL has 36 separate lights that all
Radiate light towards the center. I was reading a forum where the creator first introduced the RoL, and people were getting renders that lasted an hour or less. However, I let my scene render over 2 hours and it was still extremely blotchy. I suspect that this has to do with the 4 walls of the Atrium blocking the center of focus, but I'm not entirely sure. But if this is the case, should I turn down the opacity of the Atrium to let more light through? Or should I hide the walls that are not in the shot to let more light in?

Comments
Yes the walls are most likely blocking the light from the ring from getting into your scene. It's sort of like you're trying to take a picture in a courtyard right at dawn or sunset. Turning off walls could help you get the light into the scene but you could also try tilting the ring so that it is casting light down into your courtyard.