EClark1894 posted at 9:37AM Tue, 23 June 2020 - #4392840

To be honest, lighting is a process, even in the real world. Look at a photographer's studio, he (or she) has screens, gels, back lights, bounces, key lights, fill lights, etc. The problem with most people who complain about things they don't understand is that they just want them to work, out of the box, perfectly, each and every time. Now, here's a little secret, by it's very nature, that's NOT art. In fact, if you did manage to eliminate the uncertainty factor then you eliminated the art itself.

I agree - however, for Poser, everyone seems to assume that the end user is coming from a photography background. For those of us that haven't, lighting is pretty much a dark art - every other version of Poser had a major upgrade to how lighting worked - which invalidates the older tutorials that are still around (and aren't being marked as legacy or deleted..

I wasted a lot of money on lighting tutorials and webinars - nothing irritates me like paying 35 for an outdoor lighting webinar that spent the entire time doing lighting inside a building (that had glass windows).