Quick way to add lighting to a building? - no need for realism at this point

#1

edit this post is related to Blender’s game engine.

I have a warehouse modelled in Max, I tried Blender yesterday for the first time and imported my model and added some controls to a camera allowing me to navigate and export an exe of this.

However - the interior is very dark, I’m wondering how easy it would be to just add uniform lighting to the whole model, just so I can navigate and see what is to be costructed from an engineering point of view.

Autodesk have Navisworks, and I hope to use Blender as a free alternative with long term aim on future projects of adding some resonable lighting and textures.

Also I had a problem where my clad walls and other objects are transparent when I play the game. Is there a quick fix for this too?

Here’s Max render, this detail is not required though, just need to see if there’s adequate space for access ect. Shadows obviously would be a great bonus at this stage.

This is not required for this project however I’m just trying to expand my skillset.

#2

For the materials, You may need to go through and check that they don’t have ZTransparency turned on, the last time I imported something from Max the materials were exported with a transparency value of 0.5 or something along those lines.

For lighting, you could try adding a Hemi light into the scene and see if that gives you the illumination your after :slight_smile:

#3

Regarding materials - that was it. I’m impressed with how quick I’ve been able to knock something up.

Next onto lighting.

Thanks for your help mate.

#4

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