DAZ has a new critter in its free stuff... the Creeper.

Nothing very relaxing here ;) Long way to go... mainly just working out the lighting and basic layout so far. And jamming three topics into one thread to avoid forum flooding lol.

Attached Link: Digital Lighting and Rendering

Digital Lighting and Rendering Been reading a fair bit of this book lately - its very handy, especially for people (like me) that had never heard of such things as three point lighting, color theory, shadow theory, camera information and a whole host of other things that art trained people would think of as standard background knowledge. Probably aimed at higher end program users, but excellent at describing things in a very non-program specific way. If you can grab a copy from your local public library, well worth the effort.

I have a sky - looks good, but is linked to the view - so if I move the camera, the sunlight effects change as the sun moves. If I want that same sky, with the same lighting and everything in the scene, but not linked to the view, how do I go about translating the "linked to view" sunlight direction, to a absolute azimuth/angle coordinates? I've already tried including the camera angles (thats the "view" I'm using), i.e. rotations in X and Y directiosn (z=0 degrees), into the azimuth and angle in the sky lab when I remove the "linked to view" effect, but that didn't work. (oops, make that four topics)

Now 5 topics; Hey...you downloaded your Challenge prize, yes? (just making sure) AgentSmith

and which one of those is the Creeper?..;) great pic..

Ah oops, IM on the way AS.

Hmm, damn, looks like no-ones played too much with the skylab settings.. oh well, off to search other avenues :/

Message edited on: 06/12/2004 01:59

Attached Link: http://www.3drender.com/light/

"Digital Lighting and Rendering" That's featured on a site page where I first got my hands on info on multi-pass rendering. Eventually started using it in Bryce. Has a handful of useful things there. Kelvin color chart, three point lighting tutorial, etc. AgentSmith

"Digital Lighting and Rendering" I've had a copy of it out from the local public library for about 4 months running now, less a couple of days in the middle when I had to return it and wait for it to be reshelved so I could take it out again. Luckily no-one else here knows about it muahaha !! :)

Nice site link btw.