Forum: Vue

Subject: Lighting Test

smallspace opened this issue on Oct 07, 2000 ยท 6 posts

smallspace posted Sat, 07 October 2000 at 1:31 AM

Working on technique for creating lightning in scenes. Comments welcome.

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

MikeJ posted Sat, 07 October 2000 at 3:26 AM

WOW! That's great, really! How did you do it? Cheers, Mike


bloodsong posted Sun, 08 October 2000 at 12:10 PM

yie! looks spectacular! does it also work with the scene being darker around the bolt?

smallspace posted Mon, 09 October 2000 at 10:56 AM

  1. There is no sun. 2. The ambient light is uniform and set very low. 3. The global exposure is set low. 4. The sky is not the sky, it's a giant flatted sphere with a dark cloud texture. 5. There is a 3000 watt white point light hanging in mid air. 6. The bolt itself was hand drawn in Photopaint. 7. A lens flare was added in Photopaint where the bolt hits the tree. 8. The mist and rain are stock Photopaint weather filters. bloodsong: Just skip step 8 and the whole scene becomes much darker. If you want it darker around the bolt, just lower the watts on the point light. -SMT

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

ARADTech posted Mon, 16 October 2000 at 11:12 PM

Totaly love it !! That is very cool. Thanks for sharing the technique :) Peace and Creativity Chris

MikeJ posted Tue, 17 October 2000 at 3:03 AM

I agree....very cool. Cheers, Mike