Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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Making Final Gather rays reach further??
I wanted to make the shadow on the floor much more visible, but the light falls off too fast before it has chance to illuminate the ground below.
Is there any way to make the light from the whiteboard reach further?
I've tried editing the Final Gather falloff start/stop parameters, and I can only reduce it further, not icrease it.
I've also tried scaling up the amount of light from the whiteboard, but to get it to reach further than the cylinder, the front ends up being completely washed out.
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For anyone else learning FG like me, in the end, I faked what I wanted by adding a very low intensity spotlight. (Turning on 'Secondary Diffuse Bounces' also helps, but doubled render times.)
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Create an area light with intensity 0. Thats the solution that I use, but, then again, not all things that work for me work for you.
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to get better results, select your lightsource, in this case the plane,
in the incadescence color attribut simply put the "v" value to a number greater than 1, something like 10 should do fine. and set your fg rays to something like 300
here i simply added a blueish tone.
preview final gather render setting>fg rays to 250
one point light set intensity to .0001 so that default lights are not used.
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BMS: Thanks for the file. I learned a lot from looking at it.It looks nice with the camera environment color right up to light the scene. It does tend to lose the shadows though.
But thanks guys, by fiddling with both solutions I've found a middle ground that works well
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