Dershem Posted January 26, 2024 Share Posted January 26, 2024 Been working on a design, and I have a conundrum. In the great room there is a balcony. When I render the room using the "Physically Based" render, the lighting on the balcony goes bananas. For whatever reason the ceiling above the balcony (which renders just fine in other styles/techniques) seems to become transparent, leaving the balcony glaringly bright. The materials have not been altered, and the glare throws the rest of the room into a, well, take a look. Any idea what might cause this to happen? (Also: Is there a better rendering engine I can get and use? Physically based" gets me close to realistic, but...) Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgardner Posted January 27, 2024 Share Posted January 27, 2024 4 hours ago, Dershem said: Been working on a design, and I have a conundrum. In the great room there is a balcony. When I render the room using the "Physically Based" render, the lighting on the balcony goes bananas. For whatever reason the ceiling above the balcony (which renders just fine in other styles/techniques) seems to become transparent, leaving the balcony glaringly bright. The materials have not been altered, and the glare throws the rest of the room into a, well, take a look. Any idea what might cause this to happen? (Also: Is there a better rendering engine I can get and use? Physically based" gets me close to realistic, but...) Thanks! Do you have a roof on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designers_Ink Posted January 27, 2024 Share Posted January 27, 2024 Try turning your sunlight setting way down to about 1200. In the camera dbx, make sure your Lighting setting is set to light set and not automatic with all the lights on you want to see in the camera view. This will help Chief by ignoring the rooms so that you get light in the distant rooms and not just the room and floor the camera is located in. In a two-story room like this, this will let all the lights show up in the camera view correctly. You can also turn down the backdrop intensity in the PBR settings until you can clearly see your background. If those suggestions do not work, post the plan and we can play with it about to troubleshoot the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dershem Posted January 28, 2024 Author Share Posted January 28, 2024 On 1/26/2024 at 4:25 PM, rgardner said: Do you have a roof on it? Yep. In all views except for Physical, it sees the roof, but in that render mode, the roof and ceiling over the balcony seem to ... vanish. And for whatever reason (I removed all furniture and fittings and even rooms not connected to this one) I can't get the file size under 26 MB. I do not have (for obvious reasons) 'flat ceiling over this room', but there is definitely a roof. Maybe... raccoons have gotten in and torn up the insulation, but virtual raccoons? This software should not have those, so iam stumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dershem Posted January 28, 2024 Author Share Posted January 28, 2024 This is what I'm working from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designers_Ink Posted January 28, 2024 Share Posted January 28, 2024 Do a Backup Entire Plan into a Zip file and upload it so we can open the model up and take a look. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dershem Posted January 29, 2024 Author Share Posted January 29, 2024 On 1/27/2024 at 4:55 PM, Designers_Ink said: Do a Backup Entire Plan into a Zip file and upload it so we can open the model up and take a look. OK. Here is the ZIP'd file. I hope you can figure out the glitch. Thank you very much! my house.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designers_Ink Posted January 29, 2024 Share Posted January 29, 2024 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yf0hojdjgwbnacdt9zjak/MyHouse-Saved-Camera-View.zip?rlkey=ox562d0dceck1dc4hmkjuil44&dl=0 I did some tweaking on the camera settings and added some light sources. You should be able to see the settings I used when you open up the saved camera in the living room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted January 30, 2024 Share Posted January 30, 2024 @Designers_InkI don't see a plan file in that dropbox link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designers_Ink Posted January 30, 2024 Share Posted January 30, 2024 6 minutes ago, GeneDavis said: @Designers_InkI don't see a plan file in that dropbox link. It is the "my house.plan" file. If you click on the size header twice, it should sort by file size and bring it to the top of the list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dershem Posted January 31, 2024 Author Share Posted January 31, 2024 Well, the lighting is a lot more even that way. OODLES brighter than I'm used to but it should work. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dershem Posted February 2, 2024 Author Share Posted February 2, 2024 Thanks everyone. This is a render, modified in Photoshop, to show the room as complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dershem Posted February 20, 2024 Author Share Posted February 20, 2024 I figured it out! The balcony was set as a balcony, so the app set it as having outdoor lighting. Re-designated it as a 'hall' and the glare went away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Doug_N Posted February 20, 2024 Solution Share Posted February 20, 2024 Dershem is right! Here is your file with the balcony changed to bonus. You can then relabel it to balcony, and then rendering works fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dershem Posted January 6 Author Share Posted January 6 Thanks. Just upgraded to Pro, and the house is looking great. Now all I need to do is win the lotto and get 25 years younger, and I can build it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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