Which Lighting System Product is your favorite?
Which Lighting System Product is your favorite?
In the (distant) past, I purchased Studio Light Pro (https://www.daz3d.com/studio-light-pro-for-d-s) but until now (15 years later!) have been unable to truly use it because I have never understood where to place my characters in order to take advantage of the loaded lighting.
I am looking forward to finding a more recent and more user-friendly lighting system which, hopefully, will auto-position itself to my character once the set is loaded into the scene. Or minimally make it easy for me to move the set towards the character, or vice versa. Portrait lighting is prioritized over scenes set lightings.
Appreciate your thoughts!
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Iray or 3Delight?
Sorry - Iray it is :)
I think you might benefit from learning a few photography lighting set ups and applying that knowledge to place the lights your own.
In that regard, I like the Ghost Light Kits
https://www.daz3d.com/iray-ghost-light-kit-3
and also, if you come from the photography world I like this :
https://www.daz3d.com/ig-photographers-toolbox-photo-lights
I have learned the 3-point lighting setup but was hoping for quicker solutions (the Studio Light Pro was unusable for me!). Thanks so much for the tip on the Ghost Light Kits... and I saw that KindredArts has an amazing range of products... now onto the next big sale!
I second the ghost light kits. They seem to do things for me that I didn't know I needed done. Excellent product.
I purchased this recently but I don't think it came with a pdf guide. Looking for the differences between "particles" and "volume".
Also, I placed the Godray sheet outside a window and wanted to conceal the sheet so put the opacity to 0.0001... the render produced no rays... must these be kept at opacity value of 1.0 for the light to work?
Or perhaps I should bring up the particles... or volume (thus the question haha). I believe it was at 0.1 or 0.2 something low.
One of my favs: https://www.daz3d.com/easy-portraits--light-presets
@Catherine3678ab do you have any tips on using this lighting setup? I bought it awhile ago but have never tried it, but I don't seem to get very good results and can't seem to apply the Light Modifier props either.
What kind of renders are you trying to make?
I don't use any product just make my own lighting or use HDRI illumination those are available everywhere for free for all tastes.
Ghostlight actually gave the interesting idea that you can turn any surface into an invisible light source by using iray glitch where you set the opacity to a very low-value (but not zero) it remains emissive but still also invisible although buying a set of primitives a bit of overkill. I wonder if it is not going to stop working one day when Nvidia will fix this iray bug ?
? there are no props ;-) I select one of the 30 HDR light presets and then change the background colour if I want to. The additional helper files are for changing various render settings. Nothing is seen until the image is rendered. I would recommend hiding the hair before spot rendering to get the basic setup. Do check with the hair on though before final rendering because some hairs are goofy.
Most if not all the portrait sets tend to have the lighting primed for a figure at default position, something to keep in mind if using other objects at other locations as targets.
It was advice I got on these forums that I've followed; get a light set you like the effect in the promos and use the set to study the setup to learn to do it yourself.
As previously stated, most light sets are built to work best if subject is at world zero.
My go to's when I'm futzing around, ghost lights, Marshian's Light rig sets (I like all their "special" light/FX sets).