[Daniel Hruby]

I am hitting a wall here. I scanned a bit through many other postings, but I havent found the right one yet.

No matter what I do, I can't get the lights to output properly. they are barley on and not visible with out bumping ISO and Shutter settings to unrealistic values. I get nothing but faint light. Only choice is to input 2000 watts for a light that should be 100 watt.

Why is this? What can I do for inputing correct lamp wattage and getting back a real world rendering?

[jomaga]

What camera settings do you have? Default ones?
A night shot with a 100W bulb should have something like ISO 800 / fStop 4 / sSpeed 20 or something even a bit lower

[DrMerman]

I know its obvious, but maybe check your normals? Its an easy mistake to make (as in, I do it on a regular basis... )

[Tim Ellis]

Check your scale is correct as well.

Import one of the lamp objects that come bundled with Maxwell, into your scene. If your scene the correct scale, then the lamp will match.

These lamp objects already have the correct emit values for the scale they were modeled at, depending on which one you use.


Hope this helps,

Tim.

[Daniel Hruby]

Tim wins the canned ham.


The export from ArchiCAD was the wong scale. Thanks tim. It works much better.


Dan

[Tim Ellis]

Mmmmmm, I just love canned ham.



Glad to help mate.

Tim.