Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Do you have a good example of light emitting objects?

FightingWolf opened this issue on Oct 13, 2011 · 76 posts


FightingWolf posted Wed, 26 October 2011 at 11:24 AM

Here's a work in progress

I had to use 2 Poser spheres and one point light for this trick.  The first ball uses Bagginsbill's jade material. It took me a while to find the right node settings. Basically I asked for help and then experimented in plugging the nodes into different places until I got the look I was going for.  The second ball is emitting the green light.

I originally tried to have the jade material emitt light itself but that was a deadend. Either Poser doesn't have the ability to do that or I just don't know how to do it.  I pretty much tried everything that I could think of + used what ever help I could get without success. So the point light was the only option that I could find that would preserve the jade material pattern.

The only downside that I have at the moment is that I have to position the point light for the ball with each change of the camera angle in order to get a uniform "glow" for the ball.  As you can see in this picture the top part of the ball is dark than the rest when it shouldn't be.  The reason is that the light is set for a different camera angle.

The only thing left now is to reduce the reflection on the ball and then I'll be able to actually work on the rest of this picture.