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Rendering environment seems to have very minamal impact

shawn_crockershawn_crocker Member, OS Professional Posts: 865 PRO
Does any one else find this to be an issue?  When I change the environment I can see a little difference but the look of the render does not seem to represent at all the image that was used for the environment.  If I use a night time image from the library, My render view still looks bright with barely any colour changes.  If I use an urban environment, I cannot see buildings in the image being reflected into the shiney aluminum parts of the model.  If I rotate the environment absolutely nothing changes.  The view port refreshes but looks exactly the same after it clears up.
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  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,671
    I can't reproduce that - try creating a new scene to see if that fixes it.
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • shawn_crockershawn_crocker Member, OS Professional Posts: 865 PRO
    NeilCooke said:
    I can't reproduce that - try creating a new scene to see if that fixes it.
    Thanks.  I will try that and possible put a little gif here if I am still seeing it.
  • shawn_crockershawn_crocker Member, OS Professional Posts: 865 PRO
    @NeilCooke
    I have created a new render studio in a different document.  The below gif shows what I am talking about.


    The doors have been applied with a stainless steel appearance and I have brought the roughness way down.  I am not seeing the environment reflected in the appearance.  After making this, I tried including the environment as a background as well.  That makes a big difference but it doesn't seem like it should.  Any other rendering application I have used still renders the environment reflections and all into the models appearances even if the environment is set to not be used as a background.  I also noticed the environments get dropped in 180 degrees upside down by default.  Which maybe why most environments are not changing things much when dropped in as a light source.  They are upside down.  Believe me when I say, I have not messed with any controls ahead of time.  I find the UI extremely awkward and really have no idea how I could even attempt to change any defaults.  I have just created the studio and started dropping things onto the model.
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