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Subject: Sharpening shadows

Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Jun 05, 2016 · 7 posts
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Anthony Appleyard ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 1:24 AM · edited Wed, 26 February 2025 at 10:42 AM

I have Poser 11. I am re-rendering some .pz3 files which I last rendered in November 2011. How can I make shadows sharper and more definite?

bagginsbill ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 8:23 AM

In FireFly or SuperFly? I suppose you must be dealing with SuperFly. In SF the light size matters - adjust scale.

For example, if you're using a point light, it's actually a sphere which size you can actually see in the preview.

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Anthony Appleyard ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 10:06 AM

In Firefly. Has anything in Firefly changed since November 2011?

bagginsbill ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 4:33 PM

No

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IsaoShi ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 6:23 PM

In Firefly, use Shadow Blur Radius:-

SBR=20.jpg

SBR=0.jpg

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

Anthony Appleyard ( ) posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 11:36 PM

Thanks. I found how to do it. See https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/?image_id=2688860 .

3dcheapskate ( ) posted Fri, 10 June 2016 at 2:30 AM · edited Fri, 10 June 2016 at 2:31 AM

I noticed that the shadows of the figures/craft on that gallery image are much darker than the shadows of the fence on the backdrop image. By simply dialing down the 'Shadow' parameter of your light from the default 1.0 you should be able to more or less match up the shadow 'darkness' with your backdrop...

shadow.jpg

The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.

*also available in ShareCG, DAZ, and HiveWire3D flavours (the DeviantArt and CGBytes flavour have been discontinued).


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