Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Light placement

samhal opened this issue on Feb 26, 2008 ยท 17 posts


lesbentley posted Tue, 26 February 2008 at 9:43 PM

The shadow cams give you a strange perspective because of their very short focal length.

You could also try this trick with the Aux or Main camera. Zero all its Dolly and Orbit dials, make sure the scale is 100%, Memorize the camera (Alt+Ctrl+H). Parent the camera to the light, Restore the camera (Shift+Ctrl+H). This will place the camera slightly behind the light, and because the camera is parented to the light it will move with it. You can also do this with the Dolly Camera, but you might need to use a bit of DollyZ on it.

Not all that easy or quick, but it does get the job done.

P.S.
The idea posted earlier of copying the light and pasting to the camera won't work, because the translate and rotate channels are named differently in a camera.