FightingWolf opened this issue on Oct 13, 2011 · 76 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 22 October 2011 at 11:28 AM
Once again I have to point out two things:
If you're rendering with GC off, a somewhat dark room will appear to be very dark. A very dark room will appear to be black. If you have Poser 9 only, you really won't be able to light a room with props. You will need to do postwork.
Photograph a computer screen so that it is readable, and the room it shines in will be black. Photograph a room lit by a computer screen so that you can see the room, and the screen will be super white. Simple physics.
You want an object with X luminance to create nearly X luminance on things 10 feet away? That's absurd. The light spreads out - if it started in 1 square foot, and then spreads out over an area 10 by 10 feet, the luminance is, by definition, now 1/100 of what it was. If you intend to "see" the secondary lighting at 1x, then the light source must be at 100x.
I have actual photos somewhere of my windowless office, lit only by my computer monitor, with Poser running on it. I'll try to find them.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)