Victorian Bedroom

ekim2wheels

I purchased Victorian Bedroom, but realized evrything lights up in the room as expected except the fireplace. Anyone know if there is a workaround to make the fireplace emit light, or add a real fire to the fireplace?

Thanks for your help.

SofaCitizen

As with any (iray) surface you can enable emission to make it produce light - whether it looks any good or not is another matter. I do have it so I can have a look.

EDIT: It turns out it's not that straight-forward as the whole fireplace is one surface. Therefore, you'd have to use the geometry editor to highlight the logs and Create surface from selected. That makes them all white so you can copy and paste from the original surface back over the top of the new one to get it back to how it was before. Then you can enable emission on the logs - although this looks very fake by default - however if you then pass the fireplace basecolour map back into the emission colour it does give something a bit more realistic. I had to wack the luminance up to 2,500 Kcd/m2 to give a nice glow. The fireplace needed a little smoke so I aded a VDB for that. Not perfect but will do for a quick 5-minute test. Obviously with a bit more time it can easily be improved along with fixing the excessive candle glow, noise and burned out highlights.

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It might work to position someone else's flames object into where the logs are, and then either set that to the right sort of emissive or stick a ghostlight there.