Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Need help with lighting

cmjackson opened this issue on Apr 05, 2002 ยท 4 posts


Strangechilde posted Fri, 05 April 2002 at 7:24 PM

Goodness me, I did a scene slightly similar just recently! Unfortunately I no longer have the image- it was part of a larger project and I dumped it! Hmm, poser is a little limited in this respect. I am looking at your piece (it's very nice!) and I take it that you want the light to be coming out from the wall-mounted lights? I am far from an expert on lights, but it occurs to me that you could place spotlights in the light props themselves, with high angle end values. Given where the lights are in your scene and the way they are positioned, though, they'll probably just light up the head of the bed. What I might do if I were rendering that scene: Spotlights in the light props, perhaps another on them, just them, to get the effect of the glow from within; will require some careful positioning. You have the woman lit quite strongly from behind her, as if the bedroom door were open to a strongly lit hallway. I might change that: very subtle infinite lights in low tones giving definition to the items in the room, with a soft spot on her from the direction of the wall lights, plus a back light, very soft indeed, to bring out definition. But that's just me! (Oh, I do wish I had that pic; it was awfully economical... blast!) :)