Render washout

Support Lighting and Rendering
#1

Im having a situation with my render not working properly. When the screen pops up all of my area looks white washed and I have no color showing on my model. I have played with all sorts of settings trying to get it to work, but I haven’t had any luck to speak of.

I feel it has something to do with the layers that are getting rendered because Im showing combined in the layer box in the bottom header. If I select only diffuse, I get the model to show pretty good, but I lose the mirror I have set under it.

Any ideas/help would be appreciated.

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#2

Take all not needed stuff to another layer. See scale of the plane, make it 1.
You probably don’t need SSS for any of materials, ymmw. Actually, i did not quite get your idea there. Why that blend texture? So i took a liberty and deleted all, except canopy one. Again, vertex groups helps there.

Use default World, Sun from beginning - see results, then modify.
Hope helps some…
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/12704

Nice model!
Happy blending!

#3

Thanks a million. But are you using Bmesh? Im getting the same problem with your file I have with a previous file where I opened it in 2.62, using Bmesh. When I open in a previous version (which I must do to export to the simulator Im modeling for) all I get is a wire frame of the model. Im glad you renamed it for that reason.

You mentioned you didnt get my idea. Here is more of what I was looking for with the mirror. Thanks again for the help and for the compliment.

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#4

Yep, bmesh version opened in previous ones does not have Faces as such. It has Polygons instead. That’s why. Also, scripts using Faces don’t work.

Glad you sorted rendering, nice one!

#5

Ok, upon trying to convert my 2.6 version to the same settings as you have in what you sent me, I can’t achieve the same results as you did. Im getting the same situation as before. Time to start searching for a good video or written tut on setting this up.

#6

Under World settings - you have Exposure and Range changed drasticly. I wonder if that and use of Circular gradient texture for a material with alomost 0 Diffuse makes this. Or is it right approach to get highly reflective material?

#7

I think I have it very close now. It was mainly due to the ambient and zenith settings under world. I dropped them to 0 (black) and things look good now. You mention a circular gradient texture. Where do I find that? I dont believe I have seen a setting to change that.

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#8

See yourself on the picture :slight_smile:

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#9

Thanks. I’ll dig into that a little more.