duester45 opened this issue on Dec 28, 2000 ยท 6 posts
Nance posted Fri, 29 December 2000 at 9:26 PM
This one's handy. After you get your lighting set up on your figure, but still have too small a pool of light to hit the background set, parent all your lights to an invisible cube prop. (You can also parent this cube to your figure and use "Point-At" on the lights to aim them all at the cube & figure.) With the lights parented to the cube, you can now make adjustments to all the lights, en masse, by adjusting the cube prop. More importantly, you can scale the cube up and the lights will now scale up with it. One entry and your entire lighting setup enlarges proportionally. The "Scale" on the light's thumbwheels just applies to the size of the light's indicator display. This process actually creates the effects of a larger light source (which also gives some additional shadow control, but that's another tute). btw - I was just doing some images using the river valley mesh from 3DCafe and had to light about a square mile of Poser world for a biker to ride through, but wanted to retain the control that spotlights provide. I ended up scaling the lights parent cube up to 100,000%. -- So, don't be shy.