{"id":2969,"date":"2013-08-03T01:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T01:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2013-08-03T01:42:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T01:42:17","slug":"light-dome-pro-r-for-daz-studio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2013\/08\/03\/light-dome-pro-r-for-daz-studio-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Dome Pro -R for Daz Studio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great to see that Dreamlight has released his new outdoors lighting and compositing system <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/light-dome-pro-r\">Light Dome Pro -R<\/a> for DAZ Studio 4. This updates his old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=2217\">Light Dome Pro 2<\/a> and appears to combine it with parts of his old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=2217\">Mood Master 2<\/a> (both of which only worked in DAZ Studio 3.x until now).  There&#8217;s also a welcome speed boost.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/light-dome-pro-r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/light-dome-pro-r.jpg\" alt=\"light-dome-pro-r\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2970\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new Light Dome Pro -R looks like a &#8220;must-have&#8221; for those who use DAZ Studio to create large outdoor scenes and then tweak them with Photoshop. I know from past experience that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=2217\">Light Dome is fairly simple to use<\/a> once you learn a few easy steps, and that it gives great results. Light Dome Pro -R comes with a handy Photoshop Action which automatically loads all your seven render passes into Photoshop layers, where they can be automatically blended and adjusted with filters in real-time &mdash; thus cutting DAZ&#8217;s render-time dramatically. Since it&#8217;s only an Action, I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;ll work with any version of Photoshop above about CS3?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the new video showing how it&#8217;s done (the intro sequence ends at 1:00 minute in, when the step-by-step tutorial begins)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GEOjkr0f6EY?list=UUp3NJZNun7D3oRaSf-B7ZaQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a longer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EIkjDLiHE3M\">23-minute version of the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s nothing to stop you adding a render from the same camera with more dramatic lighting applied, to throw another flavour into the Photoshop mix of layers.<\/p>\n<p>Also worth mentioning is the &#8220;glow effects&#8221; in the features list for Light Dome Pro -R. Be aware that this is just a whole-scene videogame-like high-contrast &#8216;bloom&#8217; (yuk), rather than the ability to add per-object glow spillover of light into the air.<\/p>\n<p>Included in Light Dome Pro -R is the old Mood Master 2&#8217;s simple Depth Fog \/ Haze, for easily adding a nice Vue-like z-depth fog to your landscape or cityscape. The fog effect alone is a good reason for getting Light Dome Pro -R, even if you&#8217;re not impressed by the other features. But we do appear to have lost Mood Master 2&#8217;s weather effects layers, such as rain etc.  Possibly a new weather-tastic Mood Master 3 for DS 4.x will be coming along next from Dreamlight, along with time-of-day and night presets?  Just my guess.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>This works with 3D Delight as a renderer.  There was also a later iRay version, but it was nowhere near as automatic or seamless.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note that &#8220;- R&#8221; version 1.0.5 changes where you find it in your runtime.  Instead of having to burrow around to find it down in My Library, it&#8217;s now up on Dreamlight | LDP-R, and is thus more easily found&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/find-dream.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/find-dream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"377\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The basic workflow for &#8220;- R&#8221; is now&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>1. Dreamlight | LDP-R | right-click on Load icon, &#8220;Open as New&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>2. Select the Skydome in the Scene tab. Then in the Content Library, drop down a level to find Background images, and apply a suitable sky to the Skydome. <\/p>\n<p>3. Save the basic scene file.  Load in your objects and arrange the scene artistically using the special LDP-R camera to view and frame it.<\/p>\n<p>4. Ensure the scene&#8217;s render settings are as in PDF.  This version of Light Dome Pro only works with 3Delight, not iRay.<\/p>\n<p>5. Approximately set sun position by looking through Sun camera.<\/p>\n<p>6. In the Scene tab, look through the Parameters LDP-R, set fog-depth &#8211; default is likely to be too far away.  Try 2000 instead of 20000.<\/p>\n<p>7. In Parameters, ensure set Ray-tracing is set.  This is independent of the main Render setting.<\/p>\n<p>8. Render, pick folder to save the output. ( C:\\Users\\YOUR_USER_NAME\\Documents\\DAZ 3D\\Studio\\Render Library\\.. )  Close render windows when FOG finishes rendering, as it&#8217;ll be the last of the set. Save scene file and close DAZ.  Load Photoshop, load renders into a single file by using the LDP-R Action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great to see that Dreamlight has released his new outdoors lighting and compositing system Light Dome Pro -R for DAZ Studio 4. This updates his old Light Dome Pro 2 and appears to combine it with parts of his old Mood Master 2 (both of which only worked in DAZ Studio 3.x until now). 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