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No Readme with Sickeyield's "Light up the Dark"?

nobody1954nobody1954 Posts: 933
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Yes, someone does look at them ;-). Don't see one with this release. I really need all the help I can get when it comes to lighting.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Readme is here http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/19628/start


    Required Products:

    Advanced DAZ Studio Light Bundle

    Advanced Presets require the Advanced Distant Light Advanced Spotlight and Advanced Ambient Light Products.

  • MarshianMarshian Posts: 1,465
    edited December 1969

    I sure wish these were easier to find, a link from the store page would be a great feature.

  • HeraHera Posts: 1,958
    edited December 1969

    For my part, I simply wish they could include the readme's in the product download again. Then I won't have to go trough DIM and do the dreary cut/past all the time I buy something.

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    It doesn't require AA unless you want to use the AA presets. It has full UberEnvironment versions as well.

    Otherwise you 1. load one of the main sets into the scene, 2. select the person or animal figure if there is one, and 3. add the smartpropped figure spotlights until the figure is as brightly lit as you wish. The promos for the product tell you the recipe used in each scene. These are completely accurate - all I did that's not mentioned is occasionally rotate the preset to aim the spotlight more at the figure when it's one of the big spotlight sets (the figure spots aim themselves because they are smartprops).

    If it's a pullback scene, where you don't need to highlight the figure, you don't need the figure spots.

    That's basically all you need to know.

  • vwranglervwrangler Posts: 4,902
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    It doesn't require AA unless you want to use the AA presets. It has full UberEnvironment versions as well.

    Otherwise you 1. load one of the main sets into the scene, 2. select the person or animal figure if there is one, and 3. add the smartpropped figure spotlights until the figure is as brightly lit as you wish. The promos for the product tell you the recipe used in each scene. These are completely accurate - all I did that's not mentioned is occasionally rotate the preset to aim the spotlight more at the figure when it's one of the big spotlight sets (the figure spots aim themselves because they are smartprops).

    If it's a pullback scene, where you don't need to highlight the figure, you don't need the figure spots.

    That's basically all you need to know.

    I think there may be a bit of terminology confusion between the promos and the product. For example, in the first promo image, it mentions "Sunset Lights AA + Sunset, Gray Moon and Harvest Moon Spots AA". Are "Sunset Lights AA" the same thing as the "Sunset Moon Lights" in the Advanced Lights folder inside the Night Lights folder?

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905
    edited December 1969

    I bought it and am looking forward to trying it. Seems like a nice product- thanks SickleYield! :)

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    I'm glad you like it, Novica!

    AA indicates Advanced Ambient lights, yes, meaning the lights in the Advanced folders. There wasn't room on the promos to spell out the phrase every time I used an Advanced preset in a render, was the problem (not without them being too small to be legible). Some include Advanced spot and distant lights as well.

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