Hi folks First off I was working on an image of a character sitting at a table in a cottage reading Well I ended up rendering in Poser and I never thorght I'd say it but you can tell the difference. What I want to know is what is the best way to light interior scenes when I tried I either couln't get the spots to shine where I wanted or everthing was washed out (white on white with a splash of colour)any tips people? Dave

The washed out is just cos the lights are too strong (though you probably already know that). Turn the lights down - my interior scenes have light strengths of about 10-20 I think and I use the linear and squared fall offs a lot.

Also, you can target the lights to any object/mesh so that they always point where you want them even if you move the lights or the target around your scene. click the [A] attributes icon by the light object, select the linking tab, and from the 'track object name' dropdown, slect the object you wish to target! :)

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/homepage.ez?Who=Doublecrash&ViewArticle=3771

Interiors are not easy to illuminate, Flak's right, you have to tone down the standard default setting of 25. Another good advice is to not use pure-white light, but change the color a bit depending of what you want to achieve. Then, in interiors the shadows are almost always very dark, so avoid high ambience settings or greyish shadows. Plus, you may want to use some negative light to add dark into corners and you can use very soft lights (down even to 1 or 2 intensity setting) finely positioned to "bring out" the various spots you like. The link is to an example of the latter. And, btw, kromekat, thanx a lot for this tip. I never thought of linking the lights to objects. Stefano

Your welcome Stefano - it's very usefull when you are trying to get the look you want quickly, you can move the lights around, up, down etc with no frear of it not pointing at your subject! :)

Cool tip Kromekat, I never new you could do that :-)

Me either, COOL!

Hehehe, it would've saved me some hours of positioning in my last pic, argh. But now I know it... :=) Stefano

Dave, you can also have a light track an invisible object. This makes it a little easier I think to get a spotlight exactly where you want it to shine.