Forum: Poser Technical

Subject: Creating Self Illuminating Props/Objects in Poser 2014

shante opened this issue on Sep 04, 2014 · 3 posts

shante posted Thu, 04 September 2014 at 2:13 AM

I tried looking through the tutorial database but I got everything ecxept anything close to what I needed so I just tried creating my own thread hoping I can get some help.

I have seen items in the store touting items as "Self Illuminating" and wanted to know what that is. If I understand it it is something like a prop of say, a light bulb that actually glows and emnates light similar to a Poser Light to make it look like a real light bulb....yes?

Is there a turorial for this somehere that anyone knows about or can someone here familair with the properties and/or creating it be willing to walk me through the creating process?

It woul dbe really nice know how to do that.

bagginsbill posted Thu, 04 September 2014 at 5:59 AM

It's quite simple and has been around since Poser 5. 

In the advanced material editor (where you see nodes) the root node has inputs called Ambient_Color and Ambient_Value.

If you put any color but black in Ambient_Color and any value higher than 0 in Ambient_Value, then the object glows.

Behaving as a light source to other objects is simply a consequence of turning on IDL in the newer versions of Poser.

There are other ways to make it self-lit or glow - any input (of which there are many) that is expecting a lighting node will basically cause glowing if you don't plug in a lighting node. Alternate_Diffuse, and Alternate_Specular, for example, will glow if you plug in an Image_Map or Tile or anything else that forces a particular color without concern about light sources.

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bagginsbill posted Thu, 04 September 2014 at 6:09 AM

An example using a Poser sphere. I put a yellow color into Ambient_Color and I set the Ambient_Value to 4. (This is about the brightness of an ordinary fire.) A lightbulb (which is much smaller) would need to be much brighter.

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