Everything is dark

I followed Visualization: Basics of Rendering in AutoCAD 2009 from autodesk and when comparing my render to thiers mine is realy dark. I followed everything step by step, except on the manual performance tuneup. It says make sure Full Shadow Dispay is on, and I couldnt get mine to turn on. Is that why all my renders are dark or am i missing something else completely?

Check the section about enabling sky background with illumination. I think it is on page 21 if you printed the material out.

the only thing i did different there was the date it wouldnt let me go back past jan 2009

post some settings, and the render, is everything dark? or something is visible.

I had similar problems, so maybe i can help.

ive attached the dwg. This is my second real attempt at a render i just followed the instructions. My first one was really dark too thats why i found the tutorial to see what i was doing wrong

rendering.dwg

I'm no expert, but your "sun" is facing the wrong way.

I guess what you got is on the first pic.

And the second one is with some changed settings.

what settings did you change? was my sun really facing the wrong way? i feel like a dork now!

the one i got was much darker then your first one, now it wants to crash my autocad if i can get it working ill post a screen shot of what it looks like

what settings did you change? was my sun really facing the wrong way? i feel like a dork now!

The sun is ok. You should turn Glonbal illumination ON, and Final Gather ON.

Try that and post what you get.

its about a million times better. did you change the material settings? mine doesnt look like yours

thanks so much for your help! im just learning how to render and spending some time in 3d

Do the following:

SUN - ON

SKY - sky background and illumination

Set the render to HIGH

GLobal illumination - ON, rays 500

Final Gather - ON, rays 100.

And render the image.

amazing! thanks so much!

amazing! thanks so much!

My plesaure:)