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Subject: Please... 8+ Lighting Help.

blizzard opened this issue on Mar 25, 2006 ยท 7 posts
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blizzard ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 3:08 AM ยท edited Wed, 15 January 2025 at 11:13 PM

Lights 1 to 8 show preview anything there after do not.
How can I tell Poser what lights I want a preview for?

More "detailed" and otherwise unneeded info below.

I've been working on this scene.
Unhappy with the lighting I deleted all but three and began adding new lights. With some help from Geeps CD I am truely impressed with what I have accomplished.

This morning I opened that scene to do some more work and suddenly my main lighting that allowed me to see my scene has decided to not show a preview. And now I can't see.

It seems that lights 1 to 8 show a preview but any lights there after do not.
I can and have lived with this but since I deleted lights my new lights took the internal name of low numbered lights and now my scene is dark. Render will likely be fine but I can no longer see what I'm looking at.

Does any of this make sense? :>/

Please Help.

Thanks.

Scott

nruddock ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 4:15 AM

This is an OpenGL limitation, nothing you can do about it in Poser.

Tashar59 ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 5:39 AM

Another thing about lighting is it won't import right. So if you Import your PZ3/PZZ you won't get your lights. If you go to the folder that has the Pz3/PZZ and "right click and Open With." You will have your saved lights. Or, it might not be anything but what nruddock states. 8 lights, thats a lot.

bucketload3D ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 5:41 AM

Try to switch your preview style from OpenGL to SreeD (if I am not mistaken, I don't have Poser 6), maybe that will remove the 8 lights limit on preview. kitty5

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Little_Dragon ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 6:50 AM

Doesn't help, unfortunately. There's an eight-light limit in P6's SreeD, also.


blizzard ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 1:17 PM

I too had hoped switching to SreeD would be a quick fix. Nope. Though have you ever worked with it on? Not to good. I was hoping there might be some quick click somewhere that I hadn't heard about. I selected one of the scenes 1st lights and deleted it. That's all it took, later I will replace that light. Odd shutting it off didn't give the same effect.? I'm moving forward otherwise, but am curious if there is an edit I can make to the pz3 file in text editor? Thanks for the replys. Scott

Little_Dragon ( ) posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 3:26 PM

I'm moving forward otherwise, but am curious if there is an edit I can make to the pz3 file in text editor? I looked, and didn't find anything.


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