Good afternoon everyone,
I found a model in the warehouse that I would really like to use but she appears very dark and I can’t figure out a way to lighten the model or make it take on the surrounding lights in a better way. Can anyone help?
The model is called CHICA TOMANDO CAFE, I can’t upload because the file size is too large
Have you tried lightening the materials in her or her clothes?
I just opened the her UV mapped material in Photoshop and lightened it, then reloaded it. You can see the difference here:
How do I open the material in photoshop?
Edit:
I’m on a Mac.
Do you have Photoshop installed?
Yes I do.
I think I figured it out. I went to the materials panel, right-clicked the material, chose edit, click on the dropdown and clicked edit again. the material opened in photoshop.
Thanks for tip!
Cool. Glad you got it. That’s what I was going to say to do. Then just click ‘Load’ and browse to your new lighter image to swap out and presto!
I think your model has vray 2.0 materials settings on it… Extensions-vray-tools-wipe option will solve it…
Thanks, I’ll try that.
That would have been much safer than what I did, lol. I saved over the original in Photoshop without thinking about it. oops.
Any idea why a model wouldn’t show up in the V-Ray render?
You can try posting just that component or link to Warehouse where you got it so we can see if there’s something wrong with the component itself.
I think its texture is missing for vray, so you can turn hidden geometry on, right click and choose texture-edit and open and save with photoshop as you did before… Or just use vray file path editor and extract all textures…
Here is the material in File Path Editor.
Here is the skp.DOCTOR 07.skp (7.9 MB) DOCTOR 07.skp (7.9 MB)
I can’t download your model and check but a quick guess, are the faces in the second figure reversed?
at least the person in SketchUp is now an eyecatcher 
maybe you can try to explode an regroup that person?
