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Flame Lights Not Appearing in Aslan Decor

SundriesSundries Posts: 12
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

I'm having a little problem in Aslan Decor.

I used the preload of Aslan 1, along with preloads for some of the lighting from Aslan Decor 1. The scene lights show up fine. I deleted all but one of the headlamp blockers, because I read somewhere that you only need one in the whole scene, and I think perhaps I don't even need that, because I have a spotlight, but I still can't get the volumized portion of the default lights to show up.

You can see in the attached image that the lights are there, and rendering on the wall, but the volume portion, which is meant to look like a flame, is not visible. If the product images are any reference, they should show up in all of the lanterns and on the candlesticks (circled in green). They do not, however. Am I missing something obvious? Were those simply photoshopped into the promo images and not part of the scene? I included the default settings below also, in case something visibly needs tweaking.

Can anyone set me straight here? I'm still kinda struggling to figure all this stuff out.

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Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,254
    edited December 1969

    I can't find the files at the moment - but are you sure the light spheres are what you want? They will be spheres, I would think you want surfaces on the props themselves. Make sure you are using the native DAZ Studio materials, not the Poser materials.

  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,468
    edited December 1969

    I don't have the décor set but you may need to turn on the flame for the candles. There might be a mat that does that for you or go into the surfaces tab with the candle selected and look to see if it has a mat zone for flame, and see if the opacity needs turning up. Also you can turn up the ambient and use a pale colour this should help.
    The lamp seems to have a bulb mat zone that can have the ambient turned up as well this should make it glow.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Hmm, just installed this and had a look at it. I'm afraid it's all a bit confusing — in the Content folders for the assorted different types and styles, all the names are so abbreviated, and still so long they're chopped short to fit under the thumbnails, it is not in the least easy to figure out what's which. There does seem to be a folder of light settings, plus settings in each style's folder to make the lights appear to be on (setting the Ambient, I suppose), but putting it all together takes a bit of work. I know this is a complicated grouping of scenery sets, but the way everything's named isn't helping.

  • SundriesSundries Posts: 12
    edited December 1969

    Ambient on the bulb (subset of the lamp itself, not the light, as suggested) does seem to bring some flame life to the lamps (though only by cranking the ambient value way up past the recommended max). Thanks!

    The candles have no flame object whatsoever that I can find, however. Turning up the ambient on them just makes the entire candlestick glow, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the MATs for a flame. In fact, there doesn't seem to be anything existing in the space where the flame would be at all.

    Weird.

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