ShelbyHall

I am looking for some help to bring more natural light into my rendering. I have tried adjusting the default sun and adjusting my lights but my rendering is always dark. My ray trace looks like it is dark out but I want it to look like its daytime. My first image is before the ray tracing and second image is the ray traced image. Thanks! Justin.plan

Thank you so much Graham!

Im confused on that because when I open the light data the intensity is at 40 watts. Is there another place I need to change this?

Here is my plan with the new pendants Eliot Hill Building 1.plan.zip

So I thought my grainy image might have something to do with the pendant so I tried using different pendants and still cant figure it out. I know I could lower the diffuse, but that changes the color of my pendants and I need them to be white. If I remove the pendants the graininess goes away. I don't understand what I am doing wrong with the pendants to cause all the grain.

It is looking so much better! But I'm not sure why my lights are so bright... Eliot Hill Building 1.plan

Kirk, to change the light source for the pendant is that changing the offset from base position?

will do!

Thank you so much Kirk!

Thank you all for your help! I have changed the floor to reflective and am trying another ray trace letting it go longer. I am using a 2014 Mac book Pro and I would hope that the video card is still good. I went back and checked my settings and caustics was not turned on. I have attached my plan here. It is the second floor kitchen I was trying to ray trace. Thanks again! Eliot Hill Building 1.plan

My ray trace always turns out super grainy. I am using Premier X7 and the image I attached is after 3min. 32 sec. and 16 passes. Can someone please help me figure out what I am doing wrong. Thank you so much!