I've searched the forums and can't seem to find this particular subject, I was just wondering how to load the preset lights such as GI lighting into an imported poser scene. any advice would be greatly appreciated to this Carrara n00b.

TIA

DS

I think you should save the Poser scene, and import that into Carrara, the lights will be there for you.

But, take advantage of Carraras lighting capabilities, such set ups arent necessary in Carrara.

I "think"?!?!?!?

If you're trying to import Poser's lights, then just be sure the "import lighting" box is checked on the Poser Scene Import window that pops up.  If you're trying to use C5's GI lighting, it's a render option you enable from the Render room.  It's on the rendering tab just below your raytracing settings.   Lots of options and sliders to fiddle with under global illumination. ;-)  If you like to look at a sample of GI lighting, go to the browser in the Assemble room and click on the scenes tab.  You'll see a collection of different sample scenes using various setups of Global Illumination.  Load them up and see what settings were used for each example.  Have fun exploraing!

Irene

Actually if you wanted to use one of the preset lighting setups from Carrara you can import the Carrara lighting scene into your scene, after you have it in Carrara. Of course, you will have to be cognizant of the lights that come in with Poser first, and perhaps delete them, or set them to zero if you think you might need them even if only to enhance the GI.

In Carrara you have 2 types of files. Car and Cbr one is the standard format, which can be opened or imported into carrara. The other should be applied from the browser. Can't open it directly.