nomuse opened this issue on Feb 17, 2010 · 27 posts
bagginsbill posted Sun, 21 February 2010 at 9:04 AM
Oh I forgot this:
"Oddly enough, it's just default Poser lights."
Not oddly at all. The default Poser lights are the worst light set ever made for CG work. Ever.
This is exactly my point. Using these lights during shader design is guaranteed to produce a strange shader.
In every new version of Poser I get, the very first thing I do is delete those default lights. I've seen so many users justify rendering with them, saying "these are the defaults", as if SM would not have chosen this default setup unless it was a good setup. That isn't the case.
The setup has been the same since Poser 4, with no justification whatsoever. Now that we have IDL, IBL and raytracing, those lights have no place in the universe.
And especially they should not be used for shader design.
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