Here are a few extra points that will help you get the most of your experiments. Now you have the foundations set you can go to town on customisation and experiment to your hearts content. To save this light select the Light folder in your library and after locating a folder you are happy to save your lights to click the "add to library" option followed by the name of the light and the "single frame" option. This is a good point to save your light as using this light as a starting point will save you some time in the future. You now have the basic foundations all in place. Remember you can check you are naming the right ones in your material room. To easily Identify your lights name your "Specular" and "Infinite/Sun" lights accordingly. You can see in the picture the IBL light is illuminating the shaded areas so they are not black. It is directional but it fills an infinite area so even if your object is way back in the distance light will be cast onto it from the Infinite light. The Infinite light works very simmilar to real life sun light. Here is the image rendered with the Infinite/Sun light added. I will post an image of my final render settings at the end of the tutorial. I usually choose something between 0.0 and 2.0 but it is worth experimenting to fit with your scene.įor Raytrace shadows to work you must have raytrace ticked in your render settings. You can change the sharpness of the shadows here by altering the "Shadow Blur Radius" dial. Raytrace shadows work more accurately than Depth map and in my opinion give better results overall. Select Shadows and tick the Raytrace Shadows box. The next step is to create a new light and tick the button to assign it as an "Infinite" light. To easily Identify each light name this Light "IBL Fill" by clicking the name "Light 1" in your "Properties" pane. (I will show this after adding the Infinite light.) For this reason I usually knock the IBL Intensity down to around 50% or less. For example any area in your image that is in shadow will be "filled" by Diffuse Light. I always try and think of the IBL light as a shadow filler. (I have also selected Ambient Occlusion But I will explain that later) This Light will be your IBL Diffuse light so in the Parameters/Properties panel click "Diffuse IBL". Next use the "Create Light" icon to create a new light. You can do this one by one by selecting the light and then clicking the "Dustbin/Delete" button on the light panel. Start a new scene in Poser and delete all of the existing lights. There are many ways in which to set up your lights which will all deliver different results but these are the steps I take when setting up a new light set. Some parts of the tutorial may require you to have a basic understanding of Posers user interface. Here you can learn the basics about creating light sets and I hope that you can expand on this yourself with experimentation. I have created light sets for Poser that have been best selling products at Renderosity and I have decided to write this tutorial for beginners in Poser art. I have been using Poser now for around six years and in that time have learn't alot about getting the best out of your renders.
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