Artistic RenderWorks - How do I get it brighter?

[Bruce Kieffer]

I'm not having much luck getting my scene brighter using Artistic RenderWorks. I've turned the ambient lighting to 100% and turned it on and off and that does not seem to make a difference. I've added spotlights and more spotlights all set to 100%, but the overall scene brightness seems to peak at what I consider too dark and that's all I can get. With these same settings, Fast RenderWorks is way too bright and Final RenderWorks is just a bit less bright than the Fast RenderWorks. What can I do to brighten the scene with Artistic RenderWorks?

[APE Design Ctr]

I second this. I frequent the wood texture in Artistic Renderworks (Cartoon style) and my backgrounds always appear grey no matter what the light settings. Anyone have some advice?

[Bruce Kieffer]

I wonder if there's something wrong with the Artistic RenderWorks rendering, and I've thought so for a while. I messed with lighting my scene for many hours over the past two days, and all I can say is that the results of adding lights to the scene makes no sense. I started with one spotlight, pointed it on my work in my scene, set it to 100% brightness, and set it to none for both distance and angle falloffs. I render the scene and I see the results of that light. Now my brain tells me that if I want the scene brighter, I just duplicate the light object and that would double the brightness, right? Wrong, the light volume is the same on the area where both lights land. If I shift one light right or left, then the are outside the other light get lit. Why isn't the overlap twice as bright as where only one light lands?

[grant_PD]

I've had issues with artistic as well. In scenes where I've got lights all over the place, sometimes I get no lit areas at all. Just a swath of grey.

Also of note, try replacing a directional light with a point source. I get a massive increase in brightness with a point source.

[Bruce Kieffer]

Can we please get some input from our friendly Nemetschek tech support folks on this issue?

[islandmon]

Indeed, one work around these issues is to use the ColorSych Filter properties in the Print Dialogue to lighten/brighten during output. Quick easy and works great !