Tis' the giving season, give or take a month or so, (if you think of it on a scale of millions of years, the holidays are nearly here! So much to do!) and I would like to offer up a few free lighting rigs/scenes out of my infinite generoisty and compassion for the bryce community........Ok, Ok, so I'm just really bored and figured I could make some cool light rigs I hadn't thought of yet. Sooooooooooooo.... what are you interested in? Be specific! Example: "I want a set-up scene that is a good example of the lighting you get inside a shopping mall on a semi-sunny day." Ooohhh good idea max! I'll work on that and let you know when it's done! Yada yada. So. Request! (I've already done the basic outdoor ones with GI etc, just rendering some previews now)

Maya and Max Rigs...3 set lightup I have both now..Thanks Bryce But for Bryce... I know Die Hardand always will be because in the end DAZ will get Bryce to where it needs to be.

Moonlight?

Or is that too easy to do in other ways? Maybe Dusk? Twilight?

Message edited on: 11/14/2005 11:16

"I want a set-up scene that is a good example of the lighting you get inside a huge sewer pipe on a semi-sunny day with the lighting coming from the above grating and the distant opening.." Too specific?

The moonlight I was thinking of is the kind where if the moon is behind you, you see everything clearly as if lit by a pale silvery light, yet if you turn and face the other way you see nothing as all the landscape is in darkness. I think that's from "Moon In Scorpio" Talking about the moonlight on the Martin Mere. Lovely effect, I'd love to be able to reproduce that in Bryce.

Ok here's the moonlight one:

Download .br5 file here

Scene includes sky and light rigs, plus a sphere with a "moonlight" material on it you can use as a base for other materials in the scene.

Message edited on: 11/14/2005 17:09

Oh and it also renders very fast thanks to zenith (modified to look like moonlight rather than sun), the above frame took 24 seconds.

Thanks, Oh I wanted to ask you about Zenith, I've forgotten how you first get it into Bryce.

Help?

(new laptop, and I wanted Zenith on here too) I mean the other zenith... suddenly struck - hey, is there more than one sort of Zenith then? I wanted to try zenith out with loads of spheres you see, but I was hoping it wouldn;t be too strong, so is there a softer zenith version available? (Not as soft as moonlight, but softer than the sunlight replacement zenith)

Message edited on: 11/14/2005 17:25

any good rigs/tips for interior lighting would be good, still can't seem to get that right most of the time:)

with zenith, by selecting all the radial lights (use the selection tools in the lower-right by pressing the weird white target looking buttons), you can enter the light lab and change the color to be brighter or darker. In the basic zenith rig, the light color is a near-white, slightly yellow color. In the moon version, I simply changed the color to a dark gray/slightly bluish color. You can mess around until you get the effect you want. A few notes: zenith is meant to work with the sun disabled, and all materials with ambience settings of zero. You can adjust the shadow intensity in the skylab without messing with the ambience of the materials. I've an indoor rig in progress, should be up by tomorrow.

Oh goody, looking forward to that! I've just realised the date today... is two days later! Yipeee, is the indoor rig ready then?

Message edited on: 11/16/2005 06:26