Hwo to make a real day-light?

[actarus1]

hello everybody~
I'm now creating a house with a window. I want to project the sun-light into my house thorugh the window, and i want the floor and ground can reflect a suitable amount of light so that whole house can natural and real. how can i do that? I'm now palced a spot light out of the window to shot into my house through window, and a point light (without shadow) inside the house as helping increase the effect...... I'm using soft3.7, can i use those function such as global illumination or etc? and, can soft3.7 create volumertic light?

[richard-sher]

Soft 3.7 can do volimetric light (click the shader button in the light dialog box to attach a volume shader to it) but it can not do Global Illumination. (you need Soft3.8sp1 to do that) If you can get an upgrade, I've got a tutorial on my web site (wwwlEdHarriss.com) that shows how to use Global Illumination in Soft3.8sp1. Otherwise you'll just have to fake it with a lot of lights.

Good luck,

Ed Harriss, http://www.EdHarriss.com
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[actarus1]

my metalray never work due to some reason, then does any other way to creat volumertic light??

[richard-sher]

I don't know if the old Soft renderer supports stuff like that. (It's been years since I've used it) You could fake it with some geometry and opacity maps. If mental ray does not work, it's probably your license that's the problem.

Later,

Ed Harriss, http://www.EdHarriss.com
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[ob1]

Nice advertising there Ed

[richard-sher]

Thanks a lot there Ob1.... =)

Edited by EdHarriss on 03/10/01 01:27:09 PM.