How to have a shadow when multiple lights are cancelling each other?

[lightwriter]

Hi there!

I'm rendering a few animations of some pieces of furniture, and some of the cameras rotate around the subject 360 degrees. Due to this, the lighting needs to be uniform.
However, the concentric arrangment of these lights causes me and issue: they cancel each other and I barely end up with a shadow beneath the furniture.
Is there any way to retain the lights setup and, at the same time, have a defined shadow?

[Aram Avetisyan]

Hi,

Your lighting setup is too dense, and yes, they cancel each other if placed so.
You can try placing the lights further away from the furniture.

I believe, nevertheless, that a uniformly lit environment light (aka HDRI or a solid color), optionally with some lights, will do the job.

[lightwriter]

Hi,

Your lighting setup is too dense, and yes, they cancel each other if placed so.
You can try placing the lights further away from the furniture.

I believe, nevertheless, that a uniformly lit environment light (aka HDRI or a solid color), optionally with some lights, will do the job.

Thank you for your help. I deleted all the lights, added a HDRI and a single plane light above and the results are night and day.

With the addition of a HDRI, a question arises: I needed to rotate the HDRI at the same time I was rotating the camera, in order not to have pronounced shadows. This works for a camera; however, if I want a whole different rotation of the HDRI associated with another camera, what must I do? Is it even possible?

[romullus]

Corona bitmap has transform from object option, you can assign to each HDRI a different object which would you would animate to make that HDRI rotate as you want.

[lightwriter]

Corona bitmap has transform from object option, you can assign to each HDRI a different object which would you would animate to make that HDRI rotate as you want.

If I understood correctly, I can assign different HDRIs to different cameras, and rotate each HDRI independently (even if is really the same HDRI)?

[romullus]

Yes you can assign different HDRIs to every camera, but that won't make them rotate in sync with that camera. For that you'd have to animate U offset of HDRI, or use transform from object feature and animate some dummy object, which i find more convenient.

[lightwriter]

Thanks, I'll give those methods a try!