February 27, 2012, 04:21:08 pm
Thanks in advance for your time if you can take a moment to help!
I am wondering how most people (or staff) tend to adjust their settings differently for scenes that are closer and farther away from the subject matter. Especially shadow settings, which right now are displaying differently in "build mode" than what actually renders. Please feel free to offer any other suggestions as well.
I realize this can be subjective, depending on what is defined as close, and far away, but assume what you can from my attched test render and let me know what your experience has been. My building is looking a bit "flat" at times and the shadow range is hard to adjust to get nice shadows on building at same time as having ANY shadows on distant trees...this makes the trees, etc look terribly flat and lifeless. I believe the Ambient brightness needs adjusted as well. The settings are still rather abstruse and not clearly defined anywhere.
Question #1: (CLOSE UP SHOTS)
I would like closer shots to have very nice, clean ambient and diffuse shadows. What have you used to accomplish this?
- Ambient Shadows?
- Ambient Scale?
- Shadowmap Offset?
- Shadowmap range?
- Shadow Slope Offset?
- Diffuse Shadow
Question #2: (FARTHER AWAY SHOTS)
I assume it is best to adjust the settings, per clip, for farther away shots to get depth and interest in ambient and diffuse shadows. What have you used to accomplish this?
- Ambient Shadows?
- Ambient Scale?
- Shadowmap Offset?
- Shadowmap range?
- Shadow Slope Offset?
- Diffuse Shadow
Question #3:
3A. When i make a movie clip, then later go back and change settings in "build mode", like Ambient Brightness", etc, it seems that the existing movie clips DO NOT reflect those changes. Is this correct?
3B. Do i need to "refresh" each view in each clip after changing settings?
3C. Does each seperate clip in "Movie Mode" maintain its original settings when the views were set for ALL settings in "Lighting, Clouds, Camera, Fog"? if so, how can you make global changes that will affect each clip.
Thanks again,
Bob