{"id":11687,"date":"2019-10-07T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T09:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=11687"},"modified":"2019-10-07T09:40:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T09:40:06","slug":"see-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/10\/07\/see-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"See the light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may be some nice emissive lights, lurking in the Materials section of your official Poser 11 Library&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/superfly-lights-poser11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/superfly-lights-poser11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"770\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11688\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renderosity.com\/marketplace\/products\/136629\/?AID=4737\">Vince Bagna&#8217;s light emitting materials<\/a> for the SuperFly render engine. I&#8217;m not sure if some of these shipped with the Poser 11.2 freebies bundle or not (I still haven&#8217;t found a full list of <em>exactly<\/em> what ships with Poser 11.2), but I have the materials\/shaders in the main Poser 11 runtime.<\/p>\n<p>Despite several hours of trying I just cannot figure out how to get something realistic out of them, though. &#8220;Light Emission&#8221; works great, but makes the sphere it&#8217;s applied to invisible every time.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/glow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/glow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11690\" \/><\/a>Light Emission.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Light Neon&#8221; material keeps the sphere visible, but lacks the realistic ground surface light-spread which &#8220;Light Emission&#8221; has. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/glow2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/glow2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11689\" \/><\/a>Light Neon.<\/p>\n<p>Neither offers light-spill at the edges of the sphere, and nor can this be faked by duplicating and having sphere-in-sphere &mdash; because the materials have no transparency settings at all.  Nor can the two be combined in-scene in any useful way.<\/p>\n<p>Getting something nice thus entails clunky mashing together of two such renders in Photoshop, then apply a slight rim haze via filters.  Still, it can be done&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/glow3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/glow3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11691\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be some nice emissive lights, lurking in the Materials section of your official Poser 11 Library&#8230; These are Vince Bagna&#8217;s light emitting materials for the SuperFly render engine. I&#8217;m not sure if some of these shipped with the Poser 11.2 freebies bundle or not (I still haven&#8217;t found a full list of exactly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lighting","category-poser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}