Quote - Hi,

 

I am a amateur poser user, Poser 2010.

 

I have a scene which is completely dark.

 

I need a figure to use a flashlight to navigate around hopefully with a really realistic flashlight effect.

 

I think I know roughly how to do it, that is to parent a light ( spot ) to the figure hand.

 

Could anyone please suggest any other advise such as spot settings and method to parent the spot to the flashlight.

 

I have a flashlight from the freebie section.

 

Thanks in advance

You can parent the spotlight to the flashlight and the flashlight to the figures hand. The WILL lose the parenting if you try to save it seperately. You must edit the pp2 (prop) to contain the lt2 (spotlight). This is easier said that done for new users. If you want the parenting to stay save the whole scene. The pz3 (scene) will retain the parenting info for the light/prop combination.

As stated above using volumetric lighting can stretch the render times to something you won't like if you are doing an animation. You cannot see light beams without adding a volumetric effect. Light is invisible unless it strikes something. The cone prop with a shader to fake the volumetric lighting parented to your flashlight would be a lot easier on your render times.

You can adjust the spread of the flashlight (spotlight) beam with the flaps on the light itself as well as where the light starts. I would add a fall off to the light as we all know that a flashlight will illuminate closer objects than those farther away.

I realize you are looking for particular numbers but those are scene dependent in a lot of cases.

I am not sure this helps much but it gives you an idea of the workflow you will need.

pdg