sturkwurk posted at 8:01 AM Sun, 13 March 2022 - #4435853

I hate to admit it - but I don't understand very much of this, and yeah, I've been using poser for a long time.

I need simplicity - click - the thing now casts light - slide "this" to make it brighter - kind of stuff.

just like Ghostship2's materials - click - it's silver! and move on to making my image :)

To get objects to light up in superfly, it's a little more complicated than click and slide. The very simplest is just add a cycle surface root node. Make sure you check the superfly root box (or maybe I'm the only one who forgets that sometimes) add an emission node and plug it into the surface plug on the root node. then you can change the brightness by changing the strength.

Plugging the blackbody node into the the color helps it mimic the color of real world lights. The extra nodes in Y-phil's example are sample numbers to use for different light sources. You don't need those if you don't want. You can also look it up online. The lightfalloff node in hborre's example helps the light not look flat. I think it's more needed if the light source is going to show, but I could be wrong.

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