Are there any (fairly current and free) samples of state-of-the-art "realistic" lighting setups for P10 or P11? I'd like to test my frequent use shaders against some "correct" light sets, but all I have are older examples or my own sets, all of which are much brighter than lights are "supposed" to be.

Which is to say, I suck badly at lighting and my shaders are miscalibrated, as a result. I would like to improve, but I can't find any examples to examine. Does anyone know of any?

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Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

Not free and over at DAZ but Jepe's effects has a lightning feature. You may find a feature from the RDNA people that IS free that is a lightning effect there as well. Those are the only ones I am aware of.

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Thanks, Boni. Hmm. I thought RDNA closed down completely? Are they still active somehow?

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Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

have you tried my free light set for p11? http://www.sharecg.com/v/86639/browse/11/Poser/Studio-Portrait-Lights-for-Poser-11-Poser-11-Pro

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Thanks, ghostship2. That looks like it should be what I need. I'll check it out and see just how bad my shaders really are. I overlight things like crazy, man oh man.

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Cage posted at 6:33PM Wed, 22 March 2017 - #4300086

Thanks, ghostship2. That looks like it should be what I need. I'll check it out and see just how bad my shaders really are. I overlight things like crazy, man oh man.

I also have a PBR shader you might want to check out.

http://www.sharecg.com/v/86231/gallery/7/Material-and-Shader/Poser-11-Superfly-Uber-Shader-version-3

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Interesting. Is that Superfly-specific, or Firefly-compatible? I'm not using Poser 11 for anything, because it breaks my figures. So I'm not a Superfly user.

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Yeah, it's a Cycles/Superfly shader

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Hi there

I would as first use BB EnvSphere and Snarly EZDome which I use in every scene and here are two renders,in first I've used simple 2 infinte lights with low intensity 25-30% and BB EnvSphere,both renders are done in Poser 2014 with FF

This with two light setup

This one is with no lights only HDRi map

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura

Ya know Jura, I always marvel at how you get such nice even overall lighting with just 2 infinite lights. I'm curious, where in the scene do you place them?

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Miss B posted at 11:44PM Mon, 27 March 2017 - #4300449

Ya know Jura, I always marvel at how you get such nice even overall lighting with just 2 infinite lights. I'm curious, where in the scene do you place them?

I will try upload my light setup which you can try there

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura

Thank you sir, I much appreciate your help.

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Miss B posted at 3:03AM Tue, 28 March 2017 - #4300660

Thank you sir, I much appreciate your help.

Hi Miss B

Here is link on my light setup

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5o2brdj6s951nzq/Runtime.zip?dl=0

If you need HDRi as well please let me know

Thanks,Jura

Thank you muchly Jura, I've downloaded it, and will check it out tomorrow.

As far as HDRi's, I've downloaded a dozen or so from the sIBL Archive, and in fact used one of them for the Strolling The Beach render I did recently. Of course, they're mostly outdoor Images, which I suspect is not the type of HDRi you used for the type of renders you posted above.

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Miss B posted at 12:40PM Tue, 28 March 2017 - #4300678

Thank you muchly Jura, I've downloaded it, and will check it out tomorrow.

As far as HDRi's, I've downloaded a dozen or so from the sIBL Archive, and in fact used one of them for the Strolling The Beach render I did recently. Of course, they're mostly outdoor Images, which I suspect is not the type of HDRi you used for the type of renders you posted above.

Hi MissB

Please use this one

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qchq0ukttqycrsi/03.zip?dl=0

I've used this one and is my most used HDRi if I do studio renders

if you will need my render settings please let me know there,usually I use D3D script as there I've lot more control

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura

Thanks again Jura, and I think I've used his script as well, so will definitely check that out.

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jura11 posted at 5:40PM Tue, 28 March 2017 - #4300658

Miss B posted at 11:44PM Mon, 27 March 2017 - #4300449

Ya know Jura, I always marvel at how you get such nice even overall lighting with just 2 infinite lights. I'm curious, where in the scene do you place them?

I will try upload my light setup which you can try there

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura

Thanks very much.

Now that I have more memory and a Poser SR fixed my Superfly problems, I'm looking check out some of the P11 goodies myself.

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