Who...has found that slamming your head repeatedly against your desk acutually DOES help with lighting set up?

then again....maybe it's the double vision...

No, you aren't. I've come up with the theory that slamming your head into the desk moves the mouse just enough to get everything right. It also works with lining up props. Posing can be a very painful experience, but we all have to suffer for our art. I just wish I had hair to pad the slamming a little...

I found that 'kicking the dog' sortta helped too. But then the neighbors called the human society AND police on me....I don't have a dog, it was theirs =8( Posing is most definitely the most painful, ever tried modeling a yoga pose AND move the mouse around...at the same time?!

Hmm.. looks like I'm not the only one missing the good old feature of Poser3 "add light" instead of replacing or having to fix all manually! hehe! Rena

I once worked for a man who could swear for 3-4 minutes straight without repeating a single curse word, so when I need to, I just 'channel' him and watch the (RealWorld) air turn blue around me....scares the cats, but seems to help with posing problems. However, lighting, for me, has no solution, I'm afraid ;)

hitting your head agenst things also makes helps in other things. in general it's a good idea to hit your head aganst something hard at least once a day. now what was i doing....?

throwing my monitor out of a second floor window allways works for me.anything above or below that doesn't seem to work as well.

I use Travelers lights ...... I can't set lights in Poser at all ..that stupid ball thing is just weird. Bryce however, I have no trouble...sigh

Sunday I spent five hours trying to make the lights on a reasonably good P4 render "improve" a P5 render of the same scene. When I rendered the scene as saved in P5 with Firefly, it looked different from last year's (ie, screwed up). But that's Ok; I've learned tons about shadows and stuff and I wanted to try that anyway.

As the work "progressed," I flashed back on the percentage of my creation time I had spent on the lights the first time I worked on the scene (Standing Stones). I began to sweat and shake. After the fourth hour, I took the dog for a walk. Might as well. The scene was "rendering."

Finally after five hours of tweaking, rendering, turning each light off in turn, turning it back on, checking shadows, rechecking, rendering, tweaking, changing intensities, switching infinite lights to spots, tweaking, moving spots, rendering, adjusting saturation, tweaking, checking shadows, rendering, I got a result I liked.

I put the result beside the render from last year, and it was the same--no better, no worse--except that the camera angle had shifted slightly at some point so I couldn't just replace the alpha channel in the composite....

I've decided to buy an Etch-a-Sketch, if I can find one.

Mick