ElZagna opened this issue on Jan 19, 2014 · 119 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 27 January 2014 at 7:43 PM
Quote - have never needed to use the sun with sibl in poser.. in fact.. if you use the sun light you're sort of defeating the purpose and working against yourself since the sphere used for the ibl blocks out the sunlight. ibl's are meant to be used to give realistic environmental lighting
Poser IBL doesn't use a real sphere - it's just conceptual.
My EnvSphere (which is real) with IDL does not block the sunlight. It's set to not cast shadows.
IBL's are indeed meant to give environmental lighting, but they do not give the lighting of the sun - only the sky and ground. The sunlight is too concentrated to be picked up as a point light source with a 1/2 degree arc via IBL or IDL. It is necessary to augment the environment sphere or IBL with an infinite light - otherwise you have no sharp shadows.
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