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Posted by shwaiger at Dec 24, 2016, 12:06:16 AM

Global illumination doesn't work in virtual visit mode, in aerial mode it's OK
Please help! Rendering the same scene with the same render options (max quality) giving different results depending of viewing mode: in the aerial view global illumination seems working, quality OK, but rendering in virtual visit mode gives bad quality picture. What am I doing wrong? I'm using Sweet Home 3d 5.3 on macOS Sierra with latest Java.

I found the same problem on this forum, but there is no solution :(
http://www.sweethome3d.com/support/forum/viewthread_thread,5167

There are my renders: in aerial mode and virtual visit:

Posted by Puybaret at Dec 24, 2016, 10:32:49 AM

Re: Global illumination doesn't work in virtual visit mode, in aerial mode it's OK
You're doing nothing wrong, Aerial view and Virtual visit modes don't use the same lighting system, as your captures show it.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator

Posted by shwaiger at Dec 25, 2016, 1:39:54 PM

Re: Global illumination doesn't work in virtual visit mode, in aerial mode it's OK
Can it be changed? Maybe via configuration file or source code? Aerial view's lighting system looks much better!

Posted by Ceciliabr at Dec 29, 2016, 6:19:49 PM

Re: Global illumination doesn't work in virtual visit mode, in aerial mode it's OK
Have you tried using this renderer? :

CreatePhotoWithRenderer-1.3.2.sh3p

cec

Posted by shwaiger at Jan 6, 2017, 8:01:17 PM

Re: Global illumination doesn't work in virtual visit mode, in aerial mode it's OK
Yes, tried, but it looks very bad. Aerial view illumination model much better. I wonder, why not to use this model in virtual visit mode. If someone of developers read this topic, please give me a hint, where to tweak to try switching GI model for virtual visit!

Posted by Puybaret at Jan 6, 2017, 8:40:33 PM

Re: Global illumination doesn't work in virtual visit mode, in aerial mode it's OK
It's programmed this way because it gave better result/performances in most cases using this way. Meanwhile, it's possible that there have been some bug fixes in SunFlow that could be worth being tested, but testing changes in SunFlow is a very long task... sad

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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator

Posted by EvEnger at Jun 16, 2017, 7:23:11 PM

Re: Global illumination doesn't work in virtual visit mode, in aerial mode it's OK
Hi, Shwaiger!
Have you found the solution of problem described above?

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