Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Any advice on lighting in Poser 9?

dasquid opened this issue on Nov 23, 2012 · 21 posts


Zanzo posted Fri, 30 November 2012 at 8:16 AM

Quote - Ok I looked in the material settings for her skin and it had ambient at 1 with the color black, so I set it to 0.

Also I turned IDL intensity down to .5 from 1.

 

I'll have more time for this tomorrow since I am finally off work then.

  1. Turn off shit surface scattering and add some specular to her skin instead. Each body part do like a dark grey at 10%.

  2. Delete all the lights.

  3. Add two directional lights.

  4. Have one directional light at strength 40% facing directly at her. No shadows or ambient occlusion on the light.

  5. The other directional should point directly at her left side with a strength of 40%. No shadows or ambient occlusion on the light.

  6. Add a point light and set the distance end to 15 and light strength to 100. Then position it in front of her in a way that covers as much of her body as possible. Turn on ambient occlusion on the light and shadows on to a strength of .5 (raytrace)

  7. Add an IBL light. Grab an image off the web of a well lit nightclub scene outside. Set the IBL strength to 45 and add this image. Shadows & Ambient occlusion off for this light.

Then do a re-render and let's see how it looks!