melanie opened this issue on Apr 09, 2000 ยท 12 posts
jschoen posted Sun, 09 April 2000 at 12:05 PM
Ok quickly: Get everything set up (figures and props) 3 Lights most of the time are too much and just slow things down. Keep the main light (The bright white one) and one of the fill lights (The orange one), delete the green light. Now change the orange light to a medium Grey, and turn off it's cast shadow. (You can always turn this back on, but a lot of the time it too is not nesassary) Change the main (white) light shadow detail to at least 512, but even better to 1024. Rotate and place the main light to point where you want and how you would like to light the scene. Adjust the brightness to suit the mood. Now a trick is to take the second light (and keep the brightness low) to point the opposite of the main light. I.E. if the main light is pointing forward and favoring the right side of the face, the second should be casting light on the left side of the face and more towards the back. Note: changing the light to white and shades of grey maintain the colors of the objects. Remember when you use colored lights in a scene they affect the colors of anything they fall on. Sometimes giving the desired effect, but some times doing ghastly things to the colors. I hope this helps a bit. Now spot lights, can get tricky. ;-) James