Indigo Renderer Forum

What if you only wanted to tone map select parts of a render?

You'd have to isolate the light emitted from only certain parts of the scene.

This can be done in blender with render layers, but I don't think indigo has any such support. And I'm not completely sure it's doable.

Wait, that depends on what you mean neo. You can duplicate an image with different tonemapping settings, then stitch parts together as you wished them. But before you ask for more you should be more explanative yourself on what you meant.

Indigo HAS layerlight... Though, this doesn't allow a total light change. You can multipy the XYZ components of the light-group and the brightness of it in total by a certain factor, which gives you brightness and colour control. Not a whole own Tonemapping...

Well, for example.. Take my space scene.. I want to brighten up the stars but I don't want the clouds to glow like they're radioactive or something..

neo0. wrote:Well, for example.. Take my space scene.. I want to brighten up the stars but I don't want the clouds to glow like they're radioactive or something..

Isnt your background just one image? Like what that other guy did with his star wars scene?

"Is it an hdri anyway", is asking Borgleader ?

You will not succed with a real paint and brush, try photoshop or gimp instead... ahem you know these softs allow you to select the portion of the image you want to work on. Okay neo, ask yourself your question and I'm sure you'll find a nice way, like using small weak emitters or putting hole in the plane to show an emitter behing, or draw white pixels or whatever... There are so many ways, and it's so easy to find one that you should take one moment of reflection before asking, really you are not nasty but harrassing

So, the question you really want to ask yourself is: "How can I make the stars showing more, or be brighter?". When you came to several options evaluate wich one you would like to apply, try it and then try the others if the first failed.

Borgleader wrote:

neo0. wrote:Well, for example.. Take my space scene.. I want to brighten up the stars but I don't want the clouds to glow like they're radioactive or something..

Isnt your background just one image? Like what that other guy did with his star wars scene?

Yep, but rendering things changes the look of that image as a background. Im stil waiting for skindigo to support rendering background images. That would be amazing.