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Lokai2000 — The Lighting Saga
Published: 2010-01-19 00:01:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 3180; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 150
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This is a bit of an odd image, but it served its purpose.A few out there may know that I wrote my own image base lighting code for generating light sets for the Povray render engine. I spent some time this weekend doing a major overhaul on that code to improve some annoying artifacts I was dealing with. This scene was used as a test image.
The collection on the right was generated from 168 source images for the lighting. The one of the left is one of those I selected for a final render.
I am happy with how the code is performing now.
Enjoy.
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BTW, any idea where that costume came from? I'd love to get it if it's available someplace.
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Wow... gotta clear off the cobwebs... The main outfit was somthing called biogoth (I think). It is really old and was originally for animedoll. The stockings were a freebie from someplace... The wings I modeled.
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Google suggests it's Biogoth Angels, for Anime and Maya Doll, from Renderosity. Rendo says it's no longer available. Drat, looks like a cute costume.
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Thank you so much for such a comment! Lighting is one of those things I try to work hard at. It can have such a major impact on a piece.
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you're welcome.
i agree; to me lighting feels like the closest thing to painting, in the 3d cgi world.
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It looks great! Wow, 168 images!! You have patience - but now I guess this is your reference for deciding which one you want to use. Very cool.
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That is the beauty of scripts.
Kick it off, go to work, come home, eat dinner, go to sleep, get up next morning.... still running? Yep -> go to work.......
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Looks pretty clean. Sorry to hear about your PC. That is major suckage. I don't know diddly about coding, but my number two machine died last week, so I know suckage!
Good luck with getting it up and running again. I can't wait for my SSI to finally go through! Then I can finally get a GOOD machine!
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It has been dying a slow death for a while. It was not by surprise. Now just to figure out what to replace it with.....
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The same or better? Just a guess.
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The lighting looks really good on this. That is the one issue I'm still having with Daz Studio. I just can't seem to grasp the lighting at all. And the girl is cute too, by the way.
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Artifact-wise it looks clean. But raytracing must take time to render. ^^
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It does, but it keeps my computer busy while I am at work... or at least it did until my machine died this evening.
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I was doing surgery in my computer last night too. The power supply fan was making terrible noises and I had to replace it. I was coping with that noise for a week until I decided to open the box and fix it...
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