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Lighting Experiment
« on: October 11, 2004, 12:45:45 am »
Well, trying some stuff in max with lighting, thought this looked pretty good, but was wondering if the light should be hitting the ship as well? Anyway, let me know what you think...
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Re: Lighting Experiment
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2004, 03:27:13 am »
firstly open up the image in ps or psp and make it darker.... then when you go to render it, it wont look like a model floating infront of a poster, next what I did was to follow the lighting tutorials within max.... you can use low level omni lights on the ship to light her up a bit, then I would have a distant omni light in the general direction of the sun also.... If you know how you can then edit this omni light to make it look like a sun with lens effects... all can be found in the tutorials... But all in all I like it... U make it darker and it will replace your last effort on my desktop ;)

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Re: Lighting Experiment
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2004, 01:00:39 pm »
Thanx MarkyD!! ;D

I just used a directional spotlight...tried the sunlight setting, but looked too bright...back to the lab for more experiments, muah-ah-ah-ah-ah!!!! ;D :P :skeptic: :screwloose: :rofl:
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Re: Lighting Experiment
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2004, 03:49:25 pm »
3 point lighting is godly.

a key light which is either center or a little of to the side.
A fill light which is about 30 degrees the opposite direction of the key
and a back light
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Re: Lighting Experiment
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2004, 03:54:37 pm »
Rofl.... I like  ;D experiments... my HDD is full of em... including a few of yours... keep em coming

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Re: Lighting Experiment
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2004, 11:34:02 am »
Thanx FoaS, I'll give that a try!! ;D

Experiments are fun...I have lot that will never see the light of day. :rofl:
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