People need to share more knowledge!

[AnubisMe]

I just began using this power render engine today and I think it has a lot of potential, but right now I feel so clueless on so many features and what they do.  I have seen a lot of really good work in the gallery, and I think more people need to share render settings, material properties and how they went about solving there problems. I would also really like to know how people are doing there HDRI, every time I try it looks terrible.

[ecximer]

And what there settings? In total on a default, only a secondary "HD cache". Materials don't need not to be set up for a rendering acceleration.

[AnubisMe]

I don't know, but I have been playing around with the corona and all, but getting nowhere the results that I have seen people posting. At least with exterior works. I have not done any tests for interiors which from the looks of it is heavily favored. I did notice that the post process can be somewhat difficult to work with as I find it hard to get the right setting where the image is not either fully overexposed or fully underexposed.

[ecximer]

Show your tests.
Corona ColorMapping most comfortable that I've seen, and get correct exposure in Corona simple.

[Javadevil]

Tone mapping is really simple in corona, adjust the  exposure and brightness in the render globals. Corona also let's you adjust the exposure during and after the render.

[ecximer]

Yes, I'm about the same.