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Subject: Poser5 Probelight


c1rcle ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2003 at 1:53 PM · edited Sun, 22 December 2024 at 11:26 PM

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stewer drew my attention to the probelight node in poser5's materials room not too long ago.

I didn't add any lights to this pic, not even the standard 3 that poser likes to load.

There's no shadows but it still looks pretty good & it renders a whole lot faster without the lights :)


c1rcle ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2003 at 1:54 PM

thanks for the tip about the Probelight stewer :)


KarenJ ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2003 at 2:00 PM

Wow that's nice, I'll have to try that later tonight! Anything to decrease render times :-S


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c1rcle ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2003 at 2:05 PM

forgot to say it increases the setup time, having to connect the texture to the probe node for each part it's worth it tho. That's the Marco texture by gildedgecko, a really nice texture as well :)


stewer ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2003 at 2:37 PM

The cool thing is that now you only need one light for the shadows (in this case, plug the probelight into the diffuse color instead of alternate_diffuse) instead of half a dozen of lights to have everything lit correctly.


c1rcle ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2003 at 2:43 PM

right I'm off to try that now as well, thanks again stewer :)


Puntomaus ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2003 at 4:48 PM

Ok, I tried and been a bit lost with all the L plugin thingies of the ProbeLight node (or is it a shader? verzeifelt guck). Where does the ProbeLight node go - into the diffuse or alternate diffuse node? And to which L thingies do I connect the texture and what about Exposure and Saturation ? I tried with LaRoo and it looks pretty cool although I am not sure if I've connected everything right.

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compiler ( ) posted Thu, 31 July 2003 at 6:26 PM

Sorry to sound very dumb on this one, but I couldn't find the original thread about this probe light. Could someone point me to a thread or tutorial that would explain what is this probelight that give such amazing results, and a start point on how to use it ? Thanks very much in advance. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Compiler


c1rcle ( ) posted Fri, 01 August 2003 at 6:47 AM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=1356927

here's the original thread it was first mentioned in, with a link to the page that explains the idea behind the probelight kindly supplied by stewer. I don't think I've seen any tutorials on how to use the node in poser tho, only what stewer has posted in reply on these 2 threads.


compiler ( ) posted Fri, 01 August 2003 at 7:58 AM

Uh. I had had a look at this thread but could not understand the first part of it. OK, I'll stick my head in it very hard and try to understand it. It would be a great help if someone who understands this and made the great pictures shown in these threads would give us a screenshot of the material node used for these pics. Thanks a lot in advance. Compiler


stewer ( ) posted Fri, 01 August 2003 at 9:39 AM

You won't see much on those screenshots - the most important parameters of the probelight node are only visible while editing them. Anyway, the probelight is probably only for those who are into tinkering and experimenting. If you're into it, you can take the source code that is provided at the link, compile it and use the resulting program to calculate the vector values for light probe files you can get at various places.


Puntomaus ( ) posted Fri, 01 August 2003 at 10:35 AM

Gibt es darer auch eine deutsche Website? Englisch ist ja nett, aber manche Dinge verstehe ich dann doch besser in einfachen klaren deutschen Szen ;-).

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stewer ( ) posted Fri, 01 August 2003 at 10:43 AM

Glaube nicht...die Computergrafiktheoretiker sprechen alle Englisch.


Puntomaus ( ) posted Fri, 01 August 2003 at 10:51 AM

Das ist ja so gemein ... und ich dachte schon, ich knte es mir einmal einfach machen seufz.

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stewer ( ) posted Fri, 01 August 2003 at 2:16 PM

Die Probelight Node selbst ist nicht unbedingt einfach - wenn du eine "hier klicken f schere Bilder"-Lung suchst ist Probelight ungeeignet.


Puntomaus ( ) posted Sat, 02 August 2003 at 8:08 AM

Einfach machen bezog sich darauf, eine deutsche Website zu dem Thema zu finden. Das liest sich bei etwas komplizierteren Zusammenhgen dann doch leichter, zumindest f mich.

Naja, und wenn es um eine hier klicken f sche Bilder Lung geht, ist Poser 5 im allgemeinen ja sowieso nicht das richtige Programm - wenn ich das wollte, knte ich ja meinen ProPack nehmen und P5 deinstallieren, wie es viele Leute, die ich kenne, vor lgerer Zeit schon getan haben. Und wahrscheinlich noch viel mehr tun werden, wenn DAZ|Studio erst mal da ist (nach dem zu schliessen, was ich so he hier und da).

Mir ging es eigentlich nur darum, einen Anfang zu haben: wo muss ich die ProbeLight node einstseln und wo kommt die Textur hin und worauf muss ich besonders achten - alles weitere versuch ich dann allein rauszufinden.

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stewer ( ) posted Sat, 02 August 2003 at 11:34 AM

Ich weiss nicht ob DAZ Studio wirklich "hier klicken f sche Bilder" sein wird - die angekdigten Features beeindrucken mich jedenfalls nicht. Und 3Delight, der Renderer der f Studio geplant ist, kann zwar viel, ist aber noch schwieriger als FireFly. 3Delight verlangt seine Shader in Textform. Falls du willst, kannst du 3Delight aber auch schonmal ausprobieren, ich habe eine Anbindung an Poser 5 geschrieben (siehe link). Die Probelight in a nutshell: Die Textur steckst du in das Farbfeld der Probelight, den Ausgang der Probelight in alternate_diffuse. An der PoserSurface setzt du den diffuse_value auf Null. Die L_x_x-Werte der Probelight werden in dem PDF auf der verlinkten Seite erklt, ganz unten stehen ein paar Beispielwerte, die aber f Poser's Probelight anscheinend vorher durch 10 geteilt weden msen. Ich hab hier auch ein Kommandozeilenprogramm f MacOS X dass dir aus den Lightprobe-Dateien die sich vielerorts finden die Vektorwerte berechnen kann. Wenn dir das was hilft, kann ich es dir per Mail schicken. Eine Windowsversion kann ich gerade leider nicht bauen, ich habe z.Zt. keinen Windowsrechner.


stewer ( ) posted Sat, 02 August 2003 at 11:35 AM

Attached Link: PoserMan

Mist, link vergessen...


Puntomaus ( ) posted Sat, 02 August 2003 at 2:12 PM

Danke, damit kann ich doch schon mal was anfangen :-) und dieses 3Delight werd ich sicherlich ausprobieren. Ich hab einen Windows Rechner, ich glaub nicht, dass mir ein Mac Programm helfen wird? Trotzdem danke f das Angebot. Ich werd mich jetzt erst mal auf der 3Delight website umsehen.

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stewer ( ) posted Sat, 02 August 2003 at 2:49 PM

Bei weiteren Fragen schick mir einfach ne IM.


Lightprobe ( ) posted Wed, 13 August 2003 at 7:07 PM

anyone can help me with probelight node i new in poser 5. How can i use probelight node ? can explain step by step ?? where i can place probelight node ?? in light object ?? please explain to me


Puntomaus ( ) posted Thu, 14 August 2003 at 3:07 AM

Create a probelight node (New node - lighting - Diffuse - Probelight). Now you unplug the texture map from the Diffuse color and plug it into the colorfield of the ProbeLight. The Probelight has to be connected to the Alternate_Diffuse. Set Diffuse_Color value to 0. In the ProbeLight Node set the Saturation Value to 0 and play with the Exposure value until the texture looks the way you like. You have to do that with every part of the texturemap and with every texture map you use in your scene. Delete all the lights in your Poserscene and render with the Firefly.

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