makis12 opened this issue on Aug 07, 2012 · 12 posts
makis12 posted Tue, 07 August 2012 at 12:53 PM
I made a scene in poser and i want to do the following.I want the lights to remain stable no matter if i move the camera.How can i do that?The thing is that i did it once and i forgot.Can you help?Thanks
Hana-Hanabi posted Tue, 07 August 2012 at 1:05 PM
Stable? As in, you want the lighting angle to match the camera angle? Have you parented your lights to your camera?
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makis12 posted Tue, 07 August 2012 at 1:12 PM
No.That s the thing.I don t do that and when i rotate the camera the lights are rotated also.
Hana-Hanabi posted Tue, 07 August 2012 at 1:14 PM
Huh. Check in your heirarchy editor to make sure the lights aren't parented to anything?
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makis12 posted Tue, 07 August 2012 at 1:23 PM
If i want to parent a light to the camera what should i choose?Click on the light ---->object---->change parent---->main camera?I m asking because when i click on a light and go to object menu change parent option is deactivated.
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Hana-Hanabi posted Tue, 07 August 2012 at 1:31 PM
What kind of light is it? I'm not sure it works with Infinite lights, but you should be able to parent Spots or Points, I'm fairly certain.
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hborre posted Tue, 07 August 2012 at 1:32 PM
You cannot parent infinite lights, only spot and point. If you want to parent the infinite, first change it into a spot or point, parent, then change it back to an infinite.
makis12 posted Tue, 07 August 2012 at 1:45 PM
A ha.I got it.This option (change parent) works only with spot lights.And you know what?When i set every light as a spot light and parent it to the main camera i achieve what i want.
hborre posted Tue, 07 August 2012 at 2:19 PM
However, light setups in a scene are stationary, they will not move relative to the stage if you change your camera position. It sounds to me like you just want a guide light attached to your camera and move whenever you change camera position and angle. Not very realistic in terms of natural lighting, unidirectional. Now, your best alternative would be to set up your lighting according to your scene, attach a 'spot' light to your camera but change the diffuse and specular chips in the MAT Room to black. With this arrangement, you can light your preview and render without adding any additional light to the scene.
Edit: Glad to see that works for you.
cspear posted Wed, 08 August 2012 at 2:40 AM
To parent an infinite light:
change it to a Spot
parent it to whatever
change it back to infinite
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monkeycloud posted Wed, 08 August 2012 at 4:18 AM
Interesting to know about that workaround for parenting an infinite light - many thanks
cspear posted Wed, 08 August 2012 at 7:01 AM
I discovered recently that if you have Dimension3D's 'XO' (eXtended Object Manager) script - available in the marketplace - it will parent infinite lights without any messing about.
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