Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 7 lighting wierdness

pjz99 opened this issue on May 12, 2007 ยท 35 posts


mickmca posted Sat, 12 May 2007 at 1:38 PM

The original lights also have different shadow camera names and controls, although it appears that only the names of the controls are changed. There is something totally screwy about the naming of new lights. If you delete an original light, the new lights inherit the old light's name (light 1, etc.), but the Shadow Cam doesn't. So after deleting Light 1 and Light 3, then creating two new lights, you have Lights 1 -3, but Shadow Cams 2, 4, and 5.

Lighting in P7 is so utterly hosed it's hardly worth complaining about. How this junk got past beta is beyond me. I just wasted a hour trying to find a version of BB's nostril glow fix that works for an old V2 figure. Hopeless. The methods don't work, and when you sort of have them kind of approximated, the result still has nostril glow. As near as I can tell, IBL casts light into all areas, even if the IBL map is set to cast only black light upward. So there is apparently no method that will control nostril glow if you have IBL lights -- even, it appears, if they are turned off.

Amazing.
M