Blender Archvis Tips & Tricks | Animation Breakdown | Lighting, Denoising, Camera settings | iMeshh 

Full final animation will be released... tomorrow? (final few frames are almost done)

Thanks! I appreciate it :)

Thank you very much!

Haha, I'm not sure if it was worth the doubled render time

Totally! I can't find it now but if you haven't seen there is a development page devoted to this with about 100 comments asking for this feature to be released. Might be worth also getting your voice out there too

Sadly that is still the issue that it is hidden and you have to then find it in your collections of you want to turn it on again, or atleast in the viewport. But I think I'm making a way bigger deal of this than is needed actually 😂. I think I should code an on and off button ;)

Hi, Sorry but I think you are incorrect.. Unless im mistaken, you're talking about the point light(or emission shader) inside the glass ball (ceiling light)? Glass shader going into a mix node with a diffuse shader, and using light path node shadow ray output into the mix node. This still casts light into the scene, because there are also glossy, reflection and refraction rays going into the scene, all casting noise Unless you have an example of what you mean? Additionally, plugging ray length into the emission shader is easier than making multiple nodes for the glass like in my tutorial?

Yeah this is insane! I just did a test with 9 samples and it was crazy. I'll do a video on it next week I reckon!

@@imeshh imagine that with Cycles X 😉

@@Birkkromann Well I just saw the new E-Cycles 7 has smashed Cycle X too! So I think that also deserves some checking out!

@@imeshh just a shame it's so expensive. Still cheaper than Redshift though 😉

Does relly matter i see, as long as its parented it will make it local. Nice to know

ow now it does, guess little server glitch

Oh absolutely, i use Vray daily in a studio and light linking is a huge part of the workflow. Especially for reducing noise. And yeah the OID version in blender wasn't very good with animations however the later version fixes this problem which is great

@@imeshh BTW, love seeing blender being use in Archviz. keep up the good work man.

Unfortunately it really depends on the scene :/ if it is small windows you might need larger numbers. It also depends on the brightness of the HDR

@@imeshh do you don’t try to make physically accurate to real world? You just make it extremely bright outside?

@@mrfeathers3938 well ideally you would try to make it physically accurate, but HDRIs are not always made with their base brightness value to the same level. So it's impossible to say that a HDRI should be set to a certain value. Unless the HDRI has been set to a very specific standard such those HDRIs made by 3D Collective which tell you the ideal camera settings and only to have the HDRI set to a value of 1. Such as setting the aperature, exposure, shutter speed and ISO. But to do that in Blender you need to use an Add-on, and even then you have to reply on the person who made the add-on to have all the correct lighting values. These settings come by default in 3DS though, and with my experience the 3DS camera settings still look different to the Blender Add-ons settings, even with the same values. If you're just using the sun, then the real world sun has up to 100,000 Lux which is about 1000w/m2 (ish) So that is physically correct... But then you need the environment light strength... I believe the Nishita Sky that comes with the later versions of Blender is probably going to be the most accurate in terms of sky brightness. Id recommend checking that out

@@imeshh yes I’ve noticed the updated sky node is wayyyy better looking than a sun lamp. I have an add on that calculates where the hdri sun is located and places a sun lamp exactly where the hdri sun is so I can control the brightness of the sun and the brightness of the sky individually

@@mrfeathers3938 Oh that is a cool addon! At least you can then adjust it how you like! What is the name of this one? :) You got me interested thought, and I just wanted to check I'm not just making it up but I found this article which mentioned what I said, that ideally the best setting for a HDRI is 1, but sadly that is not how it works in Blender a lot of the time, and with low quality HDRIs blog.gregzaal.com/2016/02/23/what-makes-good-hdri/

Ow its v4 i guess, that one looks like it; gumroad.com/l/HPrCY

Sorry I haven't had chance to look at your other messages yet, but in 3DS the lights are always highlighted in yellow (I think) and when you turn them off they turn grey to show they are deactivated so you don't need to worry about them and know they are off. Which is cool :)

@@imeshh yeah that is handy. But this blender addon does the same as what the outliner does?! So the only difference is that they are more neatly collected in that panel right?

@@RomboutVersluijs is this the photographer plugin? Yeah it's just specifically organised for lights so it still functions like the outlier but a lot more accessible at least

@@imeshh that's 3ds approach sounds nice. Problem is such an approach would conflict how blender highlights selected items and none selected items. But I do think something like that would be nice. Perhaps also something to toggle them on/of I. The 3dviee on the object itself

Haha I think I have the very opposite feeling. The first time I watched an ordinary TV show in 60fps it felt too real and broke the cinema feeling. As if the actors were real. I believe it is similar to the Soap Opera Effect

But then again, I rarely play high FPS games so maybe that is the difference