Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: bagginsbill Evironment Sphere night sky question

meltz opened this issue on Apr 05, 2011 ยท 6 posts


bagginsbill posted Tue, 05 April 2011 at 4:00 PM

You can darken a daylight one. If you load my Panoramic shader, the HSV node let's you control brightness. Change the "Value" parameter to alter the sky luminance. Note that a long-exposure night photo reveals the same blue sky as in the day. Night sky and day sky are actually identical - just different brightness.

You can find some actual night ones at cgtextures.com in the Skies 360/Night section. (Note: The images at cgtexures are domes, not spheres. Use the EnvDome.)

To pick up the general lighting, use IDL in P8 or PPRo 2010.

If you don't have IDL, use my GenIBL to generate a matching IBL for use in P6, P7, or PPro.

To mimic sun or moon, you want one infinite light. Positioning it so it lines up with sun/moon in the photo will cause it to match. I made a thread on how to do that somewhere. Perhaps somebody can link you to it if I don't find it right away.


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