wolf359 opened this issue on Oct 19, 2005 ยท 62 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 21 October 2005 at 10:03 AM
Neverthless, I think Poser's IBL is pretty good. As you can see in this montage, the IBL is contributing most of the total illumination and IMHO is very believable as in the lower right. If I swap the overall ratio to raise the spot and lower the IBL, it just doesn't look as believable. I've collected dozens of indoor photos and the light falloff is much more realistic with IBL. I can't post any of them because that would be a copyright problem.
My problem now is only that to finish the believability we need AO to go with the IBL.
Failing that, I'd like to try the HDRShop conversion of the IBL to a set of infinites as you suggest. But I too ran into the bad link for the plugin.
Sigh.
Even if I get HDRshop working, won't I still need AO to darken the tight spots? I'd still have the same problem with the crappy AO, right? Even in your nice pictures where you demo Occlusion Master, I can see some of the AO dirt. I tried somethings else. I made a shadow-only render to get the AO information and then I softened it in photoshop then multiplied the result back to the original unshadowed image. It improves the results a lot, but I'm trying to find a way around that onerous workflow.
Now that the weekend is upon us, I think I'll just give this a rest and start partying. No more Poser till Monday.
Thanks for all your help!!!!!
Message edited on: 10/21/2005 10:08
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