https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2069&p=30577#p30577
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melamkish
Friday, 14 April 2006, 01:45 PM


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I'll start out, and others can add more.  I haven't done a lot of morphing yet, but understand the concepts.  Lighting is easy so lets start there.

First, I must ask if you have looked at the tutorial and reference manuals that should have come with Poser.  Although they are not the best in the world, the basics of lighting is covered well enough to get started.

I'm working from the Poser 6 interface, which should be close to P5, but may be slightly differrent, so keep that in mind.  Also, I am going to assume little knowledge of lighting and proceed from the begining.  Some of this may be review.

First, I usually have my Preview window sized to about 1024x800.  It is kind of large and covers some of the controls, but makes it easy to see what I am doing.  So, set your preview window to something like 800 x 600 using the lower left corner and roughly center it.  You should now see several controls around your preview window.

The controls should be camera controls, light controls, editing controls, document styles and UI dots (are these in P5?) If you see these words around the desktop, but no controls, go to the "Window" menu in Poser and make sure the "Lighting Controls" are selected.  When you can see what looks like a little world with round headed stick pins in it, we are ready to start. :) 

The little world represents the outside your Poser world with the character in the center of the ball.  The stick pin looking things represent the lights. Click once on one of the lights.  You should now see a scale representing light intensity with the left side being dark and the right side being brightest. Working around the bottom you should also see a little colored circle representing the color of the light, a light bulb representing light properties, a trash can to delete the light, and another symbol to create a light.  There should be a little triangle next to the Light Options directly above the these controls that has a pull down menu for doing some of these same things.

Now, if you haven't yet, create a new default scene, load a character and let's play with the lighting.