Rosco2017 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I've never done a nighttime exterior shot before, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I placed can lights in the eaves of this home like you see attached in another house we built... When I view it in a camera view, only 8 lights work (as allowed by my graphics card) but when I ray trace it, I get no exterior lights on. What settings am I missing? This was done in X8. The ray trace settings are out of the box settings on "high quality". See attached pics and plans. Hopefully this made since. I have one heck of a head cold and that's probably why I missed something. Thank you in advance for taking time to look this over. Gypsy.plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Rich_Winsor Posted February 1, 2016 Solution Share Posted February 1, 2016 Here's a quick take. No textures came thru with the plan so I just changed the color of the siding material to look more like your photo. Changed all the cans to 60W Point Lights and gave them a light yellow color. Used pretty basic setup: Outdoor/High Quality/ Dark/No Blur/No Caustics and Default Image Properties. It takes a lot of passes to get rid of the grain and there is still some bleeding but it should get you headed in the right direction. Left Image was 15 passes in 12 minutes Right Image shows 46 passes in 30+ minutes Edit: Oh yeah, I changed out the background image too. The fireworks weren't doing it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosco2017 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Thank you Rich for taking the time to help me out, I'll try it out and let you know my results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosco2017 Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 Rich, your settings did the trick. If I ever get around to doing that raytrace, I'll post the results. Thank you again for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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