Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Jun 05, 2016 ยท 7 posts
Anthony Appleyard posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 1:24 AM
I have Poser 11. I am re-rendering some .pz3 files which I last rendered in November 2011. How can I make shadows sharper and more definite?
bagginsbill posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 8:23 AM
In FireFly or SuperFly? I suppose you must be dealing with SuperFly. In SF the light size matters - adjust scale.
For example, if you're using a point light, it's actually a sphere which size you can actually see in the preview.
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Anthony Appleyard posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 10:06 AM
In Firefly. Has anything in Firefly changed since November 2011?
bagginsbill posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 4:33 PM
No
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IsaoShi posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 6:23 PM
In Firefly, use Shadow Blur Radius:-
"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of
what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki
Murakami)
Anthony Appleyard posted Sun, 05 June 2016 at 11:36 PM
Thanks. I found how to do it. See https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/?image_id=2688860 .
3dcheapskate posted Fri, 10 June 2016 at 2:30 AM
I noticed that the shadows of the figures/craft on that gallery image are much darker than the shadows of the fence on the backdrop image. By simply dialing down the 'Shadow' parameter of your light from the default 1.0 you should be able to more or less match up the shadow 'darkness' with your backdrop...
The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.
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