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Posted by pencilart at Sep 15, 2010, 8:30:33 PM

How do you work the lights again?
Attached is my latest attempt to render an image using the advanced photo plugin.

How do you make the lights come from the ceiling, rather than the floor? No matter what I do, they only seem to be coming from the floor. I also had put lights below the cabinets but they aren't working either. I hope you can see my settings in the screenshot.
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sh3dcrazylights.jpeg (181519 bytes) (Download count: 401223) (Crazy lights.)

Posted by Puybaret at Sep 15, 2010, 8:36:02 PM

Re: How do you work the lights again?
Did you try to change the elevation of the lights?
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Posted by pencilart at Sep 16, 2010, 7:27:46 PM

Re: How do you work the lights again?
Yes, to 80 inches and the others were at 45 inches.
P.S. the version is AdvancedRendering-1.6.sh3p and I'm using SH3D 2.6.

Posted by whippetsleek at Sep 16, 2010, 7:40:16 PM

Re: How do you work the lights again?
I might be wrong, it is a little hard to see your settings, but it looks like you have the height of the bulbs set at 80" and not the elevation? I found out through my own errors that the height of the light bulbs won't make the light go higher.. smile

It has to be elevated like a piece of furniture.
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Posted by pencilart at Sep 16, 2010, 8:58:14 PM

Re: How do you work the lights again?
The elevation is at 80 inches, not the height.

I just tried it with the regular "Create Photo" plugin and it does the same thing, the lights seem to be coming from the floor, rather than the ceiling.

I also made the elevation of the lights at 14 feet and 10 feet but that did not make any difference at all.

It just looks like the lights are upside down or something.
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kitchen.png (98658 bytes) (Download count: 44143) (This was with the regular "Create Photo" plugin.)

Posted by hansmex at Sep 16, 2010, 9:02:47 PM

Re: How do you work the lights again?
Pencilart,

Can you publish your file, so we can have a look at what is happening?

Hans
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Posted by pencilart at Sep 16, 2010, 11:31:26 PM

Re: How do you work the lights again?
I hope this link will work for you:
http://rapidshare.com/files/419462795/kitchen.sh3d
Then pick the free user link.

Posted by Puybaret at Sep 17, 2010, 12:40:46 AM

Re: How do you work the lights again?
Pencilart, you have multiple problems:
- first the only active light shown is a ceiling light. How a ceiling light can have an effect at floor level, will you ask?!? The height of a ceiling light is equal to the height of the wall end closest to the room center (I know this algorithm isn't perfect but it's the way it works in the current version). In your case, this closest wall is the one under your shelves behind the camera and is 36 inches high.
- second I don't know where you got the "BasicPlusExtraLights" and "basicLights" lights, but as they have no "classic" bulb icon, I suspect you imported these lights from an OBJ file. This can't work this way; You must use lights coming from an SH3F file, either basicLights.sh3f or BasicPlusExtraLights.sh3f.

Conclusion: import SH3F files containing lights, replace your 3 lights by some coming from the SH3F files, and turn off ceiling lights to avoid the problem with your small wall.

I hope this will help... smile

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Posted by db4tech at Sep 17, 2010, 12:57:21 AM

Re: How do you work the lights again?
Hi pencilart,

I have discovered what your problem is. smile

Here is a new "Fast" render (I used the new lights and new AdvancedRenderingMini-1.6.1 for this)

The problem was caused because you had a tiny height wall behind the cupboards, in the bottom right hand corner of your build, so that made the ceiling lights appear very low because the ceiling slopped down to the floor.
You also had about 3 walls for every wall of the building, not sure how that may have happened?

Looking at the name of the furniture lights you seem to have added the BasicPlusExtraLights furniture directory as a single model, so you wouldn't see the light bulbs in your furniture list, plus one of the extra lights you added was at a height above the ceiling.

Here is your model, I have left all the extra walls and added 2 light bulbs.
http://rapidshare.com/files/419477626/kitchen.sh3d

When you added the BasicPlusExtraLights did you double click the file to add it to your furniture list?

Hope this helps!

db4tech

Edit:
I see Emmanuel beat me to it while I was preparing my post! smile

Posted by Puybaret at Sep 17, 2010, 1:04:20 AM

Re: How do you work the lights again?
Sorry db4tech wink

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