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Lights and Importance

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:21 pm
by FarbigeWelt
If I underdtand the way importance is working for lights correctly, then it would be great to have a normalization option. Because it looks to me that number of faces of an objet or curve based texts (unknown faces in edit mode) have a big influence on how at least Metropolis renders a scene. To get a correct influence I have divided important by number of faces (simple math can be entered in Blender entry fields) what came close to my intentions. But I have to copy and edit material for each object with diffretent faces, resp. texts.

Copy and paste of material nodes works well if copied node is still available. This helped me setting up few dozen diffrent volumes. It would be great if volumes could be cpoied the same way materials can be.

Re: Lights and Importance

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:53 pm
by Dade
It already works as a scale factor if you use a power base strategy: the power of light source is multiplied by the "importance scale factor" so you can shift up or down the relative importance of a light source.

P.S. for the power of a mesh light source you have to account each face area (i.e. not only the number of faces but also the area of each single face, power base strategies already do that).

Re: Lights and Importance

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 6:50 pm
by FarbigeWelt
Dade wrote: Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:53 pm
P.S. for the power of a mesh light source you have to account each face area (i.e. not only the number of faces but also the area of each single face, power base strategies already do that).
Not that this makes it easier, does it. Have to look around if there is any area reporting tool/plugin in this case.

EDIT: This could be useful for getting mesh volume or area
https://blender.stackexchange.com/quest ... -of-a-mesh

Re: Lights and Importance

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:02 pm
by B.Y.O.B.
You could use Blender.
N panel in 3D view, enable face info: area.

Re: Lights and Importance

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:07 am
by FarbigeWelt
@B.Y.O.B
Yes, that is correct but only useful if all faces have the same area.