Forum: Carrara

Subject: Carrara Lesson 15 - Spotlight

GKDantas opened this issue on Jan 04, 2011 · 5 posts

GKDantas posted Tue, 04 January 2011 at 5:57 PM

Spot lights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ek7-r5q9I

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pauljs75 posted Wed, 05 January 2011 at 5:05 AM

That's a neat and quick demo. Although for aiming I often use a target helper and point-at modifier instead of those quick tools on the lights themselves.

I know they're not specific to the spotlight, but you could also have shown the lighting mode settings for the stage's interactive renderer (which makes composing dramatic lighting a little easier with a real-time preview) and a little bit of the things on the effects tab which affect spotlights.

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GKDantas posted Wed, 05 January 2011 at 5:23 AM

I will do a video only about Effects tab later. Since almost all effect can be used in more them one light kind I will do as a separeted lesson.

What you mean real time preview? Use openGL?

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JonnyBravo posted Wed, 05 January 2011 at 12:16 PM

Hi GK,

I think pauljs75 was refering to the "Lighting Mode" in the "Interactive Renderer Settings". If you select "Scene Lights" instead of the default "Light Map" you'll see a more accurate representation of lights in OGL. It's really handy. Not as accurate as an actual render but far more accurate than light maps.

Jonny

GKDantas posted Wed, 05 January 2011 at 4:06 PM

Thanks Jonny, I will show this and other tips with a lesson when Lights are done... theres more to show how about light only some objects in the scene and many tips.