How do I kill all the ambient and sky lighting? I want to have radiosity effects, but applying only to lights that I place in the scene, not skylights or the sun (which I delete). Somehow, even when I think think I've deleted everything and twiddled the dials, light is coming from [i]somewhere[/i] -- when I've emptied the scene, I want it black, so I can add lights "methodically" I love the Vue renderer, but occasionally puzzle over the appropriate settings.

tried setting the ambient light to black in the atmosphere editor ? (I don't have Vue open at the moment so I can't check to see if that works)

As Frank says you can set the ambient light to black, this is what I've done before & it's does the trick.

You can also mpoe the ambient/sunlight proportions sliders all the way towards the sun in the atmosphere editor.

thanks for the suggestions . . . they helped with the trouble shooting. The scene was imported from Poser. . . and mysteriously, Vue read all the materials as having %60 ambient . . . I have no idea why.

pain in the butt, because materials are the last place I'd look for a lighting issue. . .

I now find myself changing most material settings that I've imported from Poser as alot come over with slight variations from their original settings.

I find a lot of Poser materials have wierd reflection settings and highlights too.  Can be a right pain in the butt sorting them all out

"I now find myself changing most material settings that I've imported from Poser as alot come over with slight variations from their original settings."

Not being able to afford Vue6 yet (crosses fingers and prays to bank-manager), I still have V5I. Which means that I have to re-texture virtually everything that's imported from Poser 6...

And that can be a right PITA if late into the project I suddenly notice that a pose is wrong...re-import and all the new textures are lost..
But that's life...

Cheers,
Diolma

Quote - And that can be a right PITA if late into the project I suddenly notice that a pose is wrong...re-import and all the new textures are lost..

Yeah, you have to be careful of this. I try to make sure my pose etc is just right before going to work on the textures. I know you can save your textures & re-apply them but it's still a pain. It'd be nice if there was a way to tell Vue to memorise your material settings on certain individual material parts so that if you change something withn the pz3 you can re-apply them in one go. It's along shot I know.