wom_archlight ... Sample Real World Values Chart

[chepmedia]

I have never done an architectural rendering.

So to make my life easier with less endless tweaking I thought I'd approach things as objectively as possible:

- Working at 1 decimeter units in Softimage
- Working in Linear workflow for accurate light response
- Physical Sun / Sky for the environmental light
- Exposure pass filter
- Installed the wom_archlight addon for IES profiles and real-world light values.

So all this is great, but when it comes to LIGHT INTENSITY, how do people go about dialing in values appropriate for the interior light sources? Say for instance I have a bare, 60 watt bulb in the room - where's the chart I haven't been able to find on the interwebs that shows that it's equivalent to x in candelas or y in lux... Archlight doesn't have Lumens as a unit in the pulldown, btw. I've found charts on the web for common color temperatures but I'm totally missing the, "typical halogen bulb is x in _____ units, y in ____ units" etc..

Some have suggested third party renderers that are more "real-world-light friendly" but I thought I could make this work in mentalRay without having to buy / learn even one more thing for this pro-bono job for the local school.

How are all the arch viz peeps out there working real-world light values?

Thank you,

Marc