Forum: Poser 12


Subject: Can spotlights be used effectively with Superfly?

putrdude opened this issue on Apr 11, 2023 ยท 8 posts


putrdude posted Tue, 11 April 2023 at 1:10 PM

Hi,

The lighting in this scene is supposed to just be from their cell phones, so it has multiple spots pointed at midle convict character and spider. The jack o lanterns are lit as well as the skele with the candlestick, but those are point lights with a very limited range.

I"ve used spotlights with Firefly and you get a nice conical shape with the end lighting in a nice circle, which you can adjust.

I switched the image to Superfly.

Now, all the light is blown out.

I reduced the settings and can get an image, but it is with barely any Dist End. setting now on 5 to 10 to light the object.5.

I tried using a cone, making semi transparent and it didn't work out.

This is the image after lowering the levels in Photoshop quite a bit.  It's okay, but not great.

I have made light beams in Photoshop that look better than this, and may resort to that.

Any suggestions or is this just a limit of Superfly or my understanding.  (Could be the latter)  Thanks!