Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Qs about lights

JQP opened this issue on Oct 23, 2006 · 2 posts


JQP posted Mon, 23 October 2006 at 5:04 PM

Anyone have a link to primers on Poser (6) lights?  I don't know much about them, I usually just use the default lights and tinker with the RGB and intensity.  I have several light sets in my library but I can never get them to work right.  The ones with few lights all seem designed for portraits or chiaroscuro and turn out dark renders (this probably has a good bit to do with the fact that I know jack about rendering).  The ones with lots of lights always give me a headache and simply present MORE options for me to screw up.  So, I figure it's time to learn a bit.  Specifically I'm interested in environmental lighting, lighting an entire scene, rather than portrait-type lighting.

I was also wondering if anyone knows how to translate (rotate, specifically) all ligths or multiple lights at once, as a group.  That would be very handy for me because my #1 light problem right now is not so much the light set up as getting the scene and the lights aligned.  I could rotate everything else in the scene but that's kind of a lame way of doing it and it would be easier to rotate the lights.


fuaho posted Mon, 23 October 2006 at 7:44 PM

sounds like you need to use shadowcams. these are views from the light's POV and will show you exactly where the light is pointing.


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