Was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good light set for rendering things in space. Doing a bunch of space traveling scenes and have had trouble finding a good light set for moving the camera around a ship.

Thanks

For a space scene with black starry backgrounds, I'd reccommend using spotlights pointed from the directions of the light source you choose. IE: Strongest spolight coming from the sun and minor spots coming from planetary reflected light from the same source. The public library would be a good place to go for books on Photographic lighting and theatrical scene lighting.

As for light sets, I can't imagine any would really be out there unless they come in premade space scenes.

you are also going to need hard edged shadows as well - in space, there is nothing to soften the edges of shadows

altho if one parked one's spaceship next to a glowing nebula, one might get some rather
groovy lite fx.  otherwise it would just be the local star and indirect lite off the planets,
the latter of which is possible in poser but extremely unadvisable IMVHO.

Thanks for the replies and tips. I suppose I could have given a better description of the look I am going for. I'm trying to light a ship the same way we see the ships in Star Trek, how they are pretty illuminated all around even though they don't seem near a star or anything...

I'll give some of those tips a try though :)

I think that's called "Artistic license" :biggrin:

ambient lite.  all the stars in a galaxy emit lite that provides a diffuse ambient illumination
to objects in interstellar space.  all the galaxies emit lite that provides a diffuse ambient
illumination to objects in intergalactic space.  the only place where it's pitch-black is
somewhere into which one doesn't want to navigate one's spaceship .

use ambient occlusion and spots to create what's known as the "vanity shot"