Sheedee opened this issue on Dec 16, 2012 ยท 20 posts
piersyf posted Sun, 16 December 2012 at 5:25 PM
I believe it is impossible to do as asked for a very simple reason; the lighting effects you find 'perfect' may not be what I need for a particular scene. There will never be a 'one size fits all' solution.
I do think that there are some things that could be considered in future iterations of Poser. Two that I think would be very powerful in combination would be:
create a proper functioning camera, with aperture settings. Those of us that know cameras can fiddle with f stops and the like, while those who don't could use default 'daylight', 'indoor', 'night' settings for a general starting point. The inclusion of an aperture setting would mean we no longer have to push the infinite light to 800%... instead the default light could include a 'sun' (kinda like Carrara) that can be colour set for time of day, even for overcast, and we then pay attention to what comes 'through' the camera.
Realtime, accurate lighting levels in the preview window. I don't care if it's greyscale, just let me see the lights and darks.