Hints on Lighting

[foxa]

:?: I have finished a couple of circuit board models and rendered them in POV Ray, my problem is with the lighting. I end up with one (or more) of the following.


Too dark

Washed out

Shadows all over the place

I would really like to have an even light so that all of the components can be seen, or can I turn off the shadows in POV Ray. I would also like to produce models with white fill and black lines for line art for training manuals, is that possible and how complicated would it be.

:D Thanks for a wonderful program and to Woody for the help so far.

Art

[Cowboybebop]

http://ac3d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=178 :lol: I Feel your pain

[-WOODY-]

You can also try looking at my "Eureka" post in the resources section. It's best to put an object in your scene where you want a light source and name it something easy so you can find it then copy the location after you render.
There are several different kinds of light sources available in Pov-Ray. You most likely would want an area light. Once you do include it, it will add to the render time quite a bit.

[foxa]

:) Hey Woody - that worked great, I found another option in the POV Ray book I got. Put an area light by the camera, that way even if you get shadows they are behind the objects in your scene.

Thanks again

Art

[-WOODY-]

You're welcome. I didn't even know that Pov-Ray had an instruction book out. Looks like I'll have to make a run to Bongo's books.