Mental Ray is rendering with very dark interior

WoRmTa1L

hey there,

I have tried many different lightss, renders, read tutorials on the internet and I still cannot understand why are the walls so dark on the inside, it's like only the direct light works. any suggestions? I need an outside opinion, thanks.

Rendered with mental ray in 3ds max.

ZacD

Are you using global illumination or final gathering?

WoRmTa1L

ZacD wrote: »

Are you using global illumination or final gathering?

global illumination

ZippZopp

you might need to use final gather with a large portal light at the opening of your building. that should transfer the image based lighting of your outside environment into the building

Nox

Try FG with extra diffuse bounces.

sulky

Do you use any exposure controls ?

And for what it worth this lighting kinda make sense, since you seem to be using a sunset HDR. Those are mainly dark except for the sun part :P. If this was a photo you were taking in real life, to get details in those dark area you will need some low shutter speed and low f number.