render suddenly dark

[EvilTwin]

hi
first of all: im not really experienced with luxrender
this is my first shot at a "full" scene
until 2 days ago everything went fine and i got (wip)results like this:



but as of today all luxrender is showing me is a dark image with some bright spots
i got no idea what i could have done
if anyone could be so kind to look at my scene and see if there is anything terribly wrong,
it would really help me a lot
btw: im using blender luxrender 0.8
and im JUST realizing that my linux distro upgraded blender to 2.62 today
of course i copied the luxblend-addon to the new 2.62 folder and my material previews also display fine

conclusion: i have NO idea what is different =/
any help appreciated

thx

[SATtva]

Are you using Reinhard tonemapper by a chance? Then simply switch to Linear or Autolinear. If you're interested in knowing the differences between these algorithms, then look up the wiki.

[J the Ninja]

btw: im using blender luxrender 0.8
and im JUST realizing that my linux distro upgraded blender to 2.62 today
of course i copied the luxblend-addon to the new 2.62 folder and my material previews also display fine

There's your issue. 2.62 changes some things in the way object transforms are exported, so you'll need an updated version of luxblend. You can get an updated luxblend from here: https://bitbucket.org/luxrender/luxblend25/get/tip.zip

If you had a pylux module in your old luxblend folder, you can just copy that into the new one.




....and now that i think about it, it's odd that no one has complained of this until now. Suggests the dev versions are being used more than the stable ones?

[EvilTwin]

@SATtva:
yes i was using linear all along

@J
thanks
but that actually made it worse
i now have no material previews anymore + the render doesn't even start
and when i try to load the exported file manually lux just says "Missing WorldEnd in scenefile 'lightbulb-non-bmesh.Scene.00002.lxs'"
after i realized the luxblend version was 0.9-dev i got the latest weekly linux builds of lux but that made no difference

here are my settings

[Meelis]

Scene is very large, not in reall world scale.
Walls are fishy, no thickess (just intersecting single faces).

[EvilTwin]

Scene is very large, not in reall world scale.
Walls are fishy, no thickess (just intersecting single faces).

okay
is there some kind of factor how many cm/m a blender unit is?
and i first had real walls with thickness in, but the results were the same with these planes

[SATtva]

is there some kind of factor how many cm/m a blender unit is?

1 Blender Unit (BU) = 1 m.

[EvilTwin]

1 Blender Unit (BU) = 1 m.

thx, fixed it
but still
this wasn't the source of my problem
otherwise i wouldn't have been able to render anything in the first place

[Meelis]

Did you fix floor and wall, they didnt have any thickness (faces are doublesided but still in case).
After you scaled scene smaller, did you "ctrl + a -> aplly scale" for all meshes?

[J the Ninja]

The material "Plastik-Weiss" has a texture assigned to it which doesn't exist (Tapete, the texture is called Tapete.001). That fixes the issue with the 0.9 plugin.