Hi- thanks for looking in. I created this "Alien Autopsy" scene in DAZ Studio 3 for a commissioned product promotion. Although it worked great for the product, you really don't end up getting to see much of it. What you do see is mostly out of focus due to depth of field and you only see Dr. Sondra Chen in an over the shoulder shot. All of the individual product pictures are closeups of the table in the foreground with the rest of the scene only visible as reflections in the shiny bits of the product. This seemed to me to be a waste of a pretty cool scene, so I did a couple of spin off renders. One features the product in question so it'll sit in my "Work" folder until the product is released, but I wanted to share something now. So here is a lighting test, with the product removed and the depth of field shut off on the camera. Of course, since I'm presenting this as a lighting test; now I'll have to tell you all about the lighting. There are four lights in the scene. Two normal Spotlights, an uberSoft environment light and an uberArea Light. The bluish 'key' light is a spot light coming in from the right. The other spot light is the orange 'back' light, which comes from over the console display with the sea horses. Both use soft (75% softness) ray-traced shadows and are around 45% brightness. I chose ray-traced shadows because I wanted control over the softness of the shadows and I think that the shadow mapping in DAZ Studio 3 is horribly broken as regards time (they take way too long vs. DS2 and DS4), but for the close up product shots I ended up changing these over to mapped shadows; to keep the shadows really soft and the render times down. The area light is the glowing plane you see tucked into the hood of the medbay. The light is bluish white at around 125% strength with falloff and shadows. The blown out ambient on the plane and bright, nearly blown highlights on the Gray and blankets are intentional. One important trick to using area lights in Studio is to keep the lighting samples low (4-8) for test renders and then crank them up for final (32 is a good number). This is rather inconveniently controlled on the surface shader panel rather than the object properties panel. Finally the uberSoft environment light. I love these things for providing bounce/fill/ambient lighting in indoor and even some outdoor scenes. They do everything that an image based environment light does, but you use three colors to specify the lighting colors rather than an image. So in this scene we have a light-gray light coming from above, a medium gray coming from the horizon and a dark blue/gray coming from the ground. Run this with ambient occlusion 'on' at about 40% strength and you've got a nice looking lighting base for the room. I put the final render through my usual post processing, adjusting levels etc. to taste. Products used: Victoria 4 with some 'Aiko' realistic and 'Elite' ethnic morphs, Lana texture V4A4 Bun hair and scrubs outfit - all from DAZ. Kid 4 Gray Alien by Raw Art. "Sector 15" by Stonemason, "Dystopian Medbay" by Stonemason and Moebius. Hospital screens are from the "Folding Screen" set. Surgical trays and tables from a surgery set on the old DAZ freebie site. DAZ Studio dynamic cloth items started live as the 'Flag' and 'Sheet' sets. Hex bump maps on the sheets were something I whipped up in filter forge. I really wanted to share this scene and I hope you enjoyed the description of the lighting. Please feel free to post questions in the comments and I'll try to answer there or if you'd like to site mail me here that is fine too. As always any comments or constructive critique you'd like to leave would be most welcome.