The Private Collection by SaintFox, Digital-Lion
The Private Collection
An exquisite assortment of IBL and classic lightsets
With this set you purchase a collection of carefully selected and fine-tuned lights that we've used for our own promotional images and artistic renders so far and now decided to offer to the whole Poser community.
Each single lightset in this pack is able to boost the realism and atmosphere of your scene and lift it from "not bad" to "brilliant".
The Private Collection contains a well balanced mix of realistic and moody lights made with and without IBL.
Wether you are a professional artists, call yourself a hobbyist or if you need lights for showcasing your Poser-producst: With this set you will find many options to let your scenes look as good as possible!
As a special extra you get a classic background prop, shaped to be used as a studio backdrop, straight enough to lean your figure to it while it's standing or sitting on the ground.
Look what you get:
2 x 23 IBL lights: Each light-set comes in a version with AO enabled at the IBl and without AO.
10 standard lightsets without IBL.
A handy button to delete all lights from the scene.
A classic rectangular backdrop prop.
16 beautiful textures for the backdrop.
Some important hints about the interplay of textures and light:
Please keep in mind that Image based lighting is a technic that came with Poser 6. The realistic effects that IBL can give you depend highly on the advanced material options that Poser 6 and 7 offer you for your scenes.
If you find your character looking dull or lifeless or if the skin-texture appears very dark we recommend checking the material settings of your figure. IBL based light looks best on characters with advanced shader settings. Your character's material settings should contain shaders that add a slight shine to the skin: A blinn-node or a specular node or -map, even better when used together with bump and/or displacement. If you want to use a character that comes with a plain texture you can add a blinn node manually to all material zones that contain a skin-texture or use one of the tools that face_off offers (Unimesh realism kit, real skin shader, V4 realism kit).
While not absolutely necessary the use of Ambient Occlusion on a characters skin can boost realism and the feeling of depth in your images. Often it is enough to set up AO for the character(s) in your scene and leave clothes, accessoires and environment as is. If the materials of your character do not contain AO you can use the "Occlusion Master" by face_off or set it up manually.
A short and easy to follow tutorial about setting up specular effects and Ambient Occlusion manually on every character is included in the readme you get with your purchase.
To make your life even easier each of the 23 lightsets comes in two versions. One version comes without Ambient Occlusion, the other one with AO enabled on the IBL light. If you choose the AO-version everything in your scenery will show the Ambient Occlusion effect.
Please note that AO may cause longer rendertimes!
All character sets by SaintFox and Digital-Lion are already equipped with settings for specularity and Ambient Occlusion and lots of other character sets you can buy are using advanced shader settings. The model on all promotional images is Rani.
The backdrop:
The textures of the backdrop are applied in the material room. As material poses do not work on props until a figure (cr2) is added to the scene this is the best solution, especially if you want to use the backdrop for scenes that do just contain props.
All promotional images showcasing the different backdrop textures (just 13 of 16 are shown!) are rendered with the light "Enhancer1". All thumbnails where rendered with the light "NonIBL Enhancer1". This set containes lights with slightly bluegray tones. Because of this the backdrops on the thumbnails all show some shades of blue. Depending on what lightset you choose for your scene the colors of the backdrop will vary, especially when using one of the IBL-sets!
Hair and clothes used in the promotional images are not included!
Used items for the promotional images:
Boudoir dress and lace sandals available at RDNA.
Champagne hair available at DAZ.
Naughty Body Bikini For V3 by macmullin
Super Bob Hair by Bice and outoftouch
Bobalicious- 50 Textures for Super Bob Hair by Propchick
All images rendered in Poser 7 Firefly
The model on all images is Rani by SaintFox and Digital-Lion.
