It may be obvious (is it in the manual somewhere?), but how do you get 360 degree, nearly high noon, lighting when working in pose mode and with rendering? Especially in the early stages of posing I don't want to switch cameras and find that one side of the figure is dark.

heyas; open the library drawer thingy and go to lights. look for one called 360 or something. that might be it. :) or you can make your own light setup with one light on top, one on each side (make them all white, too, those colours are annoying). or with one on top and four more around each side. or six, on all sides of a cube. if you use a lot of lights like that, you may want to turn off casting shadows in the render options screen. just for previews.

I think the one you were referring to was Even 360. I would like to know when you snuck onto my computer and put it there? It still is not exactly what I'm looking for because it does not appear clean and bright from all angles. At high noon there's not much shadow anywhere and everything is still clearly visible. With Even 360 you get 2 long shadows unless you turn off shadows completely. Could someone invent a single light called Sol? I started playing with adding lights, moving them, and coloring them. Wow is all of that beyond me. That ball with lights up in the upper left is not intuitive to me. I also don't understand why with the lights that you get with Even 360 you get the circle with arrows and for the lights you add you get the canisters. It looks like I've got some playing around and perhaps reading to do.

Canisters = Spotlight // Circle w/ arrows = Infinite If you click on the the little light-bulb -- which is "Light Properties" -- you get a dialogue box where you can change between the two kinds of lights among other things. Not to be a smartelic (sp?) or anything, but the manual spells all this out very plainly. Just go to the Index and look up the work light and you will find a whole chapter on lights. Poser does not have the greatest lighting in the world, but nbot knowing a thing about it compounds the problem many-fold. If you learn everything there is about Poser lighting, you can pull most things off. Take care, Tim