bagginsbill opened this issue on Apr 23, 2008 · 2832 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 30 October 2008 at 2:49 PM
Anyway, I put together a few materials. Quite a tedious process. Test rendering a scene like this is excrutiatingly slow. There are so many material zones to set up, even with VSS free it's a pain in the butt. I need to finish VSS Pro so I can use a nice multi-select drag-and-drop GUI. The narrow pinhole-of-a-user-interface afforded by the Python buttons to add rules and copy nodes one by one just doesn't cut it.
I used an IBL, and infinite for the sun. I added two point lights with inverse square falloff and a serious shadow blur to try to get the general sky glow to flow through the windows. Not entirely successful on that. I think I'd need to use something like 16 point lights to get that to look good, because we don't have GI or area lights in Poser. Sigh.
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