BrokenWings opened this issue on Jul 30, 2008 · 10 posts
crocodilian posted Thu, 31 July 2008 at 8:38 AM
The idea here is that you're using a picture of the background to light the scene-- not individual lights. That's part of the HDR technology idea, its called "image based illumination" (or "IBL" for short). If you think about a person walking outside on a sunny day, he's being lit by "everything". HDR lighting is a special kind of picture that works very well for lighting scenes.. What I was saying is that Poser had one of these pictures of a beach scene, as I recall.
For starters, you need to get your scene set up for this in Vue so: import your Poser scene into Vue, and set it up with the "stock" Vue HDR illumination.
You can do this from the "Atmosphere" top menu-- its under Effects:Others. Do a render with the default Vue settings . . . once you've got that working, you can move on to swapping in other lighting environments
Don't be surprised if your first render comes out with the characters looking a little dark-- that's what photos of a real person ourdoors on a sunny day look like -- using this technique, you usually need to add a little "fill"light, just like you would in a real photograph