Boni opened this issue on Apr 03, 2016 ยท 10 posts
Boni posted Sun, 03 April 2016 at 4:28 PM
I feel silly. I asked this before and cannot find the thread where the proper node was illustrated. Well, perhaps the answer could help some one else as well.
I use to be able to use object-based lights only in a scene and to avoid a 'black" scene in preview added a standard light and in the mat room set the diffuse and specular to black. That worked in PP 2014. Not in PP11 with Superfly. There is an added node I need to add to the light and I don't recall what the node is. An illustration would be greatly appreciated.
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SamTherapy posted Sun, 03 April 2016 at 5:01 PM
I use 'em all the time. Set up the lights you want to use as preview, then in the Material Room, set Diffuse and Specular colours to Black.
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SamTherapy posted Sun, 03 April 2016 at 5:02 PM
Oh sorry, didn't read your post properly. I use them in Pro 2012. :(
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Boni posted Sun, 03 April 2016 at 5:06 PM
It's ok Sam, yeah, that's what I did in PP2014 too. It's a great deal in Firefly!
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RedPhantom posted Sun, 03 April 2016 at 7:57 PM Online Now! Site Admin
For superfly, plug a black color node into the same places you'd make black in firefly. And IIRC you can use the same setup in firefly so you don't need 2 shaders for your lights.
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Boni posted Sun, 03 April 2016 at 11:32 PM
Thanx I thought I did that but I must have had the wrong node I try again in the morning.
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Boni posted Mon, 04 April 2016 at 6:29 AM
Hmmm. since there is no simple "color" node. I've tried math_color and every color node in cycles and NONE have worked. It was suggested that I use a diffuse IBL light since Superfly doesn't use that light at all, but it doesn't show shadows and makes it hard for item placement in scene. I just can't find the right node. Does anyone have a screenshot?
Thought I found in it cycles>input>color ... but that didn't work either. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. It worked before.
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raven posted Wed, 06 April 2016 at 4:04 PM
Like this. Superfly render, the ball is the light source. The light is not lighting the scene in the render. Simple_Color node can be found in New Node>Math>simple_color
vincebagna posted Mon, 18 April 2016 at 4:28 AM
Neat trick !!
I'm fighting since months now with my total black preview, turning on and off lights between scene placing and rendering. You made my day, thank you :)
Boni posted Mon, 18 April 2016 at 6:34 AM
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