bagoas opened this issue on Jul 16, 2005 ยท 7 posts
lesbentley posted Sat, 16 July 2005 at 3:24 AM
Bagoas you are on the right track, the way to simulate an omni-directional light is to use a number of spotlights pointing out in diffrent diractions. These can be parented to a prop (which can be hidden) so that you can move the lights as a group. The number of lights used will depend on how even the ilumination has to be, I find that 12 lights give a reasonably even ilumination, in many situations you can probably get away with fiewer. A usefull inovation is to use ERC to controle the paramiters of all the lights at once, whilst this works well in P4, however there are some problems using ERC on lights in P5 (don't know about P6). I have some pre-made omni lights in the Free Stuff, the "OmniLight with ERC control" and the "Omni_12(P4)" were designed for Poser 4, if you have Poser 5 you should only use the "P5-Omni-12" which was specially designed to work with Poser 5. I have not tested any of these in Poser 6. It is offten usefull to set the 'Dist End' dial when trying to simulate candle light.