Daz Create a night scene "Night effect"

[NaillMcDracken]

I need to create a scene at night, how can I configure the light to give me the night effect?

 

[mickydoo]

You are going to get a few different answers, this is how I do it.

I just use the default daylight/night time in the render settings and just make it say 8:30pm and just wind it down until its not quite pitch dark.

I then place my character, then I add a light source outside the view of the render to simulate a streetlight.

I the add a night time sky background in photoshop.

You need some type of artificial on the character or you cant see them.

 

[Rich]

There is a thread over on the Daz forums that gives a good solution to this.

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It involves twiddling with some of the exposure settings, as well as changing the white balance (which gives the scene the bluish tint that we associate with night lighting) Changing the exposure settings allows you to have a scene that iRay thinks is well-lit, but which still shows up darker.

Here's something I shot that way.

 

[79flavors]

I'll all throw in my usual YouTube link when anyone talks about night rendering and Daz3D...



The short version of which seems to me to be... night scenes don't automatically need a dark foreground.