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Subject: Lighting Tutorial Links (Bookmarks)
If none of those help LOL..
There is a lighting tutorial written by Traveller from RuntimeDNA in the current issue of 3rd DImension Graphics...really intensive.
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You mean I missed one?! LOL Thanks for the link.
For those who missed my other bulk link postings, here they are:
Texturing and Painting Tutorials
Hair, Hair and More Hair (Please scroll through the thread for more links)
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
A couple more I think you missed - my favorite pet peeve - nostril glow.
Minitut - Dramatic light and shadows for portraits - NO NOSTRIL GLOW
Nostril Glow in Poser 5 (no-shadow fix for V3 using shader node with mask supplied in thread)
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)
Lots of new users to Poser, so I'm moving this up for those who might have missed it.
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Explanation of 3D Light Source
I'm just adding CaptainJack's "Geeky Math Stuff" about 3D Lighting to the list.
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Ahh that's so handy, just what I was looking for a printed book for (lighting). Thank you very much for posting this.
I was advised that Daz updated their site and that their old tutorial links were all broken. So here are the fixed Daz links, in addition to a couple of other links
Poser 6 Volumetric Lights – Part One
Poser 6 Volumetric light, Part 2
Using advanced lighting in poser 6
Window Lighting Effects (Photoshop)
Easy Lighting FX (Photoshop)
Faking Ambient Occlusion (Poser and Photoshop)
Using only two lights in Poser 6
Easy Glow Effect (Photoshop)
Volumetric Lighting in DAZ Studio
Fire Effect (Photoshop)
Glowing Skin (Photoshop)
Backgrounds with Perspective UVs in Poser
Fireblast! (Bryce, Poser and Photoshop)
Enhance your Renders in Poser 5
Sugar skin (Photoshop)
Radiant Lighting for Free! (PoseRay, POV Ray)
Shadows 2 – Creating a rear-projected shadow in DAZ|Studio
Color Me Brilliant (Poser and Paint Shop Pro)
An Introduction to Photographic Lighting In Poser 4
WYSIWG Lights in the Poser
What are Caustics, anyway?
3D Lighting 2D Images in 3D
Using Poser 5 Lights as a Projector
Balls of Light
Perfect Portraits: Part One: Poser Setup
Rendering an Alpha Channel Using Lights
Shadows 1 – Creating a dappled sunlight effect in DAZ|Studio
Illuminate only specific areas in a render
Enhance skin in Poser 4
Easy Soft Glow (Photoshop)
Fade to Black (Photoshop)
Camp Fire
Dramatic lights SFX (Photoshop)
Beginner's Tutorial for creating Black and White studio-style photographs
Giving some depth to a flat render (Photoshop)
Raytracing in Poser5, Part One
Make some reflections of your figures
Lighting an underwater scene (Bryce 5.0)
Glow Tutorial (Photoshop)
Lighting Effects in Paint Shop
Add that Shadow (Photoshop)
Create an angelic aura (Photoshop)
Giving your render a glow effect (Paint Shop Pro)
Glowing Eyes
An Introduction to Photographic Lighting In Poser 4
Superimposing Images onto Backgrounds in Poser - Part I
Superimposing Images onto Backgrounds in Poser Part II
Using overlay to create neat light effects (Photoshop)
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Just adding one. Thanks to squid69 for this link
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Just updating this:
Some information on Light Probes. What they are, how do they work, where to get them, how to make them and ways to use them.
Explanation on what a light probe is and how it works
First thing you need to do is download the free HDR Shop v1
Next read the tutorials they have there on how to use it. It's pretty straight forward but you will need to read the tutorials on how to get started with it.
Here is a better tutorial on using HDR Shop
Here are some images
You will need the HDR Shop to convert those to .jpg images for use inside Poser.
You can also make your own from normal images but you need multiple images in order to do that. You can see what I mean by going to this link and scrolling down to the cross format images.
What I do is find HDR ready images that I can turn into a sphere using HDR Shop. Here are some links:
http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Data/HighResProbes/ Download the HDR ones
http://hdri.3dweave.com/library/
Last year I managed to find some other links as well by searching google for things like IBL images, HDR Images, and Light Probe Images. I can't readily see them in google right now: it's possible that the sites are gone or that I'm just not dealving deep enough into the search. But those links above should be more than enough for your uses.
EDIT:
You might want to check out these 2 links at RDNA. Our very creative bagginsbill has a great technique for a new way to use light probes! And he was kind enough to write up a tutorial on how he accomplished it. The best thing is that it only uses ONE light!!!
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Thanks to Bagoas for this great link on IBL Lighting.
http://www.debevec.org/CGAIBL2/ibl-tutorial-cga2002.pdf
I suggest right clicking the link and saving this one for future reference.
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Updating
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Just updating
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Quote - Just updating this:
Some information on Light Probes. What they are, how do they work, where to get them, how to make them and ways to use them.
Explanation on what a light probe is and how it works
First thing you need to do is download the free HDR Shop v1
Next read the tutorials they have there on how to use it. It's pretty straight forward but you will need to read the tutorials on how to get started with it.
Here is a better tutorial on using HDR Shop
Here are some images
You will need the HDR Shop to convert those to .jpg images for use inside Poser.
You can also make your own from normal images but you need multiple images in order to do that. You can see what I mean by going to this link and scrolling down to the cross format images.
What I do is find HDR ready images that I can turn into a sphere using HDR Shop. Here are some links:
http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Data/HighResProbes/ Download the HDR ones
http://hdri.3dweave.com/library/
Last year I managed to find some other links as well by searching google for things like IBL images, HDR Images, and Light Probe Images. I can't readily see them in google right now: it's possible that the sites are gone or that I'm just not dealving deep enough into the search. But those links above should be more than enough for your uses.
EDIT:
You might want to check out these 2 links at RDNA. Our very creative bagginsbill has a great technique for a new way to use light probes! And he was kind enough to write up a tutorial on how he accomplished it. The best thing is that it only uses ONE light!!!
Just correcting a link that was broken
Not your average IBL image (see tutorial just below)
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
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Are lights your bane? If so the following links will help you.
The links are for anything to do with lights that I have found, from Poser to creating light effects in post work using Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. I've also included a couple for Bryce 5.0 seeing that was recently offered as a freebie from Daz.
Lighting Tutorial Links:
Creating bioluminescence with P6 shader nodes?
P6 Lighting without Lighting using gather node
glow effect in Poser 6
Positioning Point/Spot Lights
Ockham's "SnapTo" Python Script Download
Olivier's Making of a pomo pic
Castle Poser Tutorials
Poser 6 IBL Ins and outs by Olivier
A little tutorial about lighting by Olivier
Tutorial: GEL MAPS by Olivier
How Light Probes are Laid Out
Advanced Image Based Lighting in Poser 6
Basic OpenGL Lighting
RDNA Poser 6 Resources
Using Python to Delete All Lights
node defined by cclesue
Understanding Light
LIGHT - A Detailed Tutorial
Softer Shadows
Poser 6 Volumetric Lights – Part One
Poser 6 Volumetric light, Part 2
Using advanced lighting in poser 6
Poser 5 Lights in Poser 6
How to Fine Tune Spot Lights by Dr. Geep
Poser Lighting Basics by Dr. Geep
Poser Lights by Dr. Geep
Spot Lights by Dr. Geep
Window Lighting Effects (Photoshop)
Easy Lighting FX (Photoshop)
Faking Ambient Occlusion (Poser and Photoshop)
Using only two lights in Poser 6
Easy Glow Effect (Photoshop)
Volumetric Lighting in DAZ Studio
Fire Effect (Photoshop)
Glowing Skin (Photoshop)
Backgrounds with Perspective UVs in Poser
Fireblast! (Bryce, Poser and Photoshop)
Enhance your Renders in Poser 5
Sugar skin (Photoshop)
Radiant Lighting for Free! (PoseRay, POV Ray)
Shadows 2 – Creating a rear-projected shadow in DAZ|Studio
Color Me Brilliant (Poser and Paint Shop Pro)
An Introduction to Photographic Lighting In Poser 4
WYSIWG Lights in the Poser
What are Caustics, anyway?
3D Lighting 2D Images in 3D
Using Poser 5 Lights as a Projector
Balls of Light
Perfect Portraits: Part One: Poser Setup
Rendering an Alpha Channel Using Lights
Shadows 1 – Creating a dappled sunlight effect in DAZ|Studio
Illuminate only specific areas in a render
Enhance skin in Poser 4
Easy Soft Glow (Photoshop)
Fade to Black (Photoshop)
Camp Fire
Dramatic lights SFX (Photoshop)
Beginner's Tutorial for creating Black and White studio-style photographs
Giving some depth to a flat render (Photoshop)
Raytracing in Poser5, Part One
Make some reflections of your figures
Lighting an underwater scene (Bryce 5.0)
Glow Tutorial (Photoshop)
Lighting Effects in Paint Shop
Add that Shadow (Photoshop)
Create an angelic aura (Photoshop)
Giving your render a glow effect (Paint Shop Pro)
Glowing Eyes
An Introduction to Photographic Lighting In Poser 4
Superimposing Images onto Backgrounds in Poser - Part I
Superimposing Images onto Backgrounds in Poser Part II
Using overlay to create neat light effects (Photoshop)
Volumetric Light
Instant Over Exposed Poser Renders
~FireLight~... A step by step guide (Photoshop)
Light and shadow tutorial
Post-Work Lighting Tutorial (Paint Shop Pro)
How to simulate radiosity in Poser
Egwene's Face & Lighting
Volumetric Lighting and Atmosphere
Enhancing an Image (Photoshop)
Understanding Lighting in Poser 5
Tutorial on Lighting in Poser 6
Glassy Shiney Layer (Paint Shop Pro)
Easy Light Glow (Paint Shop Pro)
"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi