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And another render. This one was triggered by a brief thread in
Chup's Poser Art Blog touching upon a technical lighting problem:
http://chupsposercommissionblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/ahsoka-in-straps-3.html
Hey, an art tech research question? How was I supposed to resist
that? 8^D* So, about a week later... (!)

I'm not sure how useful this would be to Chup, unfortunately, as
this is (again) a DAZ Studio render, and I don't know if Poser
has equivalent weird lighting gadgets. But anyway-- this was
rendered using omnifreaker's UberAreaLight and UberEnvironment2.
The former, to provide a tube-shaped light source, and the latter,
some general ambient lighting. I'm not sure if it's something I
did wrong, or if it's a feature... but having an UberAreaLight in
the scene seems to disable shadowcasting on distant lights (i.e.,
a light source that emits parallel rays, like sunlight.) Indeed,
if I try to toggle on their shadowcasting, they go out entirely!
But I figured the same author's ambient lighting (and more) gadget
would probably be compatible-- and it was. Whew!

I also added a couple of point-source lights, parented to the
giant glowstick, to light up the inside of her hands and the
ground surface near the tip. For whatever reason, the area
light seems to illuminate only past some minimum distance, and
I couldn't puzzle out a setting that affected that behavior.

Victoria 4.2 is still from DAZ3D, of course, and the other
visible objects (the UberAreaLight is in "Fantom" mode, casting
light but otherwise invisible) are my usual motley crew of
Gnabbist-built geometrics. Including that odd helmet-like thing
on her head. "That's a bad hat, Harry."

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Just a bit of an update.

[Chup@Cabra]

Thanks for the pointers :-)

I'll try to see if I can find something like the apps you mentioned
for Poser or, failing that, just go ahead and use Daz Studio (I have a
copy, but prefer to use Poser just because so much stuff doesn't work
with DS [at least, when I first started years ago]).

What you did is exactly the look I wanted with my light saber, though.

[Gnabbist]

On May 24, 8:39 pm, "Chup@Cabra" wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers :-)

You're welcome. (Says the n00b to the veteran.) 8^D*

Being a beginner at this, I'm bouncing around from topic to topic,
trying to learn everything at once-- and so I was pretty sure I'd
seen SOMETHING to do that kind of lighting effect. Which became
another educational opportunity, naturally.

This omnifreaker person's apps are like a SIGGRAPH toybox--
I've barely scratched the surface of the possibilities. They're
separately-priced add-ons (understandably enough, given the work
that obviously went into coding them), but they're currently
bundled with DS3 Pro. Which I caught on an extremely good sale
a couple of months ago, thank goodness.

> I'll try to see if I can find something like the apps you mentioned
> for Poser or, failing that, just go ahead and use Daz Studio (I have a
> copy, but prefer to use Poser just because so much stuff doesn't work
> with DS [at least, when I first started years ago]).

My searches didn't pan out, but I very likely wasn't using the
right keywords, and I also don't know the Poser groups to try,
etc. Seems like a technical enhancement that SOMEBODY should
have been working on, though.

Dunno for sure, but I get the impression that DS3 maybe does a
_little_ better with Poser format material. Certainly most of
the freebies that I've been snagging go into the "Runtime"
clone directories, and work fine in DS from there. Plus you
can tell it to look in more than one Runtime, so it would be
able to read from an existing Poser setup.

There is definitely a schism in capabilities, though. Looks
like the DAZ folks are scrambling to catch up with dynamic
cloth, for example.

> What you did is exactly the look I wanted with my light saber, though.

You're very kind-- thanks!

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