Shame on you, Izi. You know better.

What have i been teaching for a year. Here it is again.

When you notice that your figure is not rendering right, dark areas are too dark, and you find yourself saying "I'm having a hard time lighting this" it's NOT the lights.

Lighting is easy. What is the problem, then? You are displaying a linear render on a monitor that is not designed to display a linear image.

YOU NEED TO GAMMA CORRECT.

The traditional and immediate response of most Poser users is to add more light. While it is possible to compensate for the rendition of darker areas by lightening them with lights, it is far better, easier, and more accurate to simply render everything properly for your computer display, your printer, etc. All of these devices expect the content to be gamma corrected.

If you have Poser Pro, enable render GC. If you don't, use my VSS shaders, or make your own. I've only published various GC shaders in threads here 7 or 8 times in the last year.

Here is M4 with black skin - totally black - no diffuse, no sss. There is a single spot light here at 95%.

Add more lights, like the 40% times 5 = 200% above? Hardly.

I shall now reveal that I have too much light already.

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