I'm trying to illustrate lighting from a lamp with lamp shade within a room. I've placed lights within the lamp shade and spent hours messing with the settings but I've yet to come close to the effect. Can anyone offer any advice to get me on track? I'm a fairly new Poser 5 user. Thanks!

Just bookmarking for responses. One thing that may work for you is using the omnilights available from the free section. If you set the center inside, and make sure the shade has some transparency, you can get something of the right effect without it taking so much time. But I'm sure you'll get better answers than that one from others here.

I've placed lights within the lamp shade and spent hours messing with the settings but I've yet to come close to the effect. Can anyone offer any advice to get me on track? I'm a fairly new okay, this may only be a small tip of the answer...but, the clue fairy tells me this. we waste tons of time in poser...(for what you are describing, i'd use bryce.) open your paint propgram, and experiment with lighting, there. poser only does so much without being a time liability.

i would try the omni light from free stuff. its a ball of spotlights and it worked for me in a similar case.Search for "lesbentley" who created it.

I made up a simple table-top lamp from some Poser primitives (cylinders, a ball) using Dr. Geep's "1-2-3-method". The whole lighting effect is achieved with one spotlight positioned somewhere above the lamp, looking down, end-angle about 160 degrees and parented to the lamp. The "shiny" look of the bulb and the shade comes from a good tad of ambient coloring. Willy

... and here's the principle. Spotlight above lamp, pointing down, wide open beam. Willy

That's nice. Where were you when I was trying to get a candle effect?

Thank you, dialyn! Nice to see y'all. This one is a little bit clumsy :-) It is best not to take a look too close, as for example there are no shadows from the lamp shade (I turned it off within the spotlight). This would have meant quite a bit more tinkering with more spotlights to get it right. So a candle light would have been a better example. I'm happy you found it nice. Willy

Um, I tried ... Willy

I confess, it looks more like dynamite just before the big bang. :-) Here's the Hair room Willy

Better than anything I've accomplished. :)

Thanks for all the responses! With your suggestions I've been able to produce reasonable lighting.