In this community workshop, we specifically looked at dark, grungy, nighttime, and low-level light scenes and how to improve lighting in these conditions.

It is challenging to render low-level light scenes with Iray in Daz Studio. Images tend to be grainy, and that is because the Iray render engine works much like a real camera, mimicking the real physics of light. For the same reason, it is difficult to shoot photos or a movie scene in very low light; the camera just isn't as sensitive as the human eye.

This community-based tutorial looked at a range of ideas, example artwork, best practices, and a few recommended products

• Looking at low-level light scenes in terms of luminance watts
• Use of ghost lights and creating your own ghost lights
• Using differently shaped primitives for ghost lights
• How to use HDRI backgrounds to light your night scenes
• The quick and dirty method to adding an emissive light to a prop
• How to use postwork to improve on low-level light renders
• Looking at a dim underwater scene
• Is filament good to use for dark scenes?
• A monitor in a dark room: how to improve lighting in this situation
• Horror scenes
• Tomb Raider stylized scenes
• Some recommended products for low-level light scenes

Try this searchable sample of the video:

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