Sky Light Through Window

MrRogerSmith

Please see my attached screenshot.  The sky dome is lighting outside but the light isn't coming through the window.  Am I supposed to change a setting somewhere?

jag11

First make sure window material y glass, Glass - Thin Clear would work.

Next, try to lower Exposure Value, by doing this you'll start to lose outdoor details, but interior will get enough light.

MrRogerSmith

Thank you for the response.  It seems crazy to me that I should have to turn up the outside to a blinding white blur in order to get even a small amount of light inside, but I guess I need to not think about Daz in terms of realism.

jag11

In order to capture outside details you will need to light up the room from the inside.

Matt_Brown

MrRogerSmith said:

Thank you for the response.  It seems crazy to me that I should have to turn up the outside to a blinding white blur in order to get even a small amount of light inside, but I guess I need to not think about Daz in terms of realism.

I cheat and put a ghost light just inside the window. That way you can adjust the two levels of lighting separately while keeping the shadows in the right place. I bought my ghost light set but you can also make your own out of primitives if you want.

Spacious

Iray is like a manual camera.  If you've ever done any photography with a manual DSLR camera it makes a lot more sense.  Indoor photography either requires a seemingly ridiculous amount of artificial light or fairly extreme exposure settings.  Your eye automatically makes that kind of adjustment, as do modern automatic type cameras.