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Nathanomir β Creating an Aimable Meshlight in DAZ
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Published: 2018-03-18 20:26:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 1564; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 62
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Applying an old Reality trick to Iray. How to make an aimable meshlight for DAZ. This uses a plane and a camera. Nothing else. This tutorial does assume you know how to convert materials from Studio Default to Iray.Related content
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YOOOO! This is smart! You giving out really good tips!
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Why let someone reinvent the wheel when I did last year? Always glad to share things like this.
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never had the idea to parent a meshlight to a camera..simple but ingenious!
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It really helps aiming them.
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sure it will..but thnx nevertheless
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An addition, IF you need light, but you do not want a light source to create reflections or glare it can be "Stealthed" by setting the Cutout Opacity to .0000001 (Six zeros and a one behind the decimal). It's great for passive fill lighting.Β Β
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I use stealth lights a lot. 
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What's the difference with using the camera headlights? Is it like using a spotlight?
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It is, but it can't be controlled like a spot. It's just on/off, no temperature or luminance settings.
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Ah, that's right! Thanks for the tip!
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Nice job! Good for lighting larger areas.
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Thanks. They're very handy for rooms.
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Thanks, I'll have to try this out, though I don't use mesh lights very often.
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You'd probably find them useful as a flood for a well-lit room, not that you use well-lit rooms that often.
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I do something similar using an invisible primitive (sphere) instead of the camera. The advantage here though is that you probably see the direction of the emission better if you look through your attached camera at the scene. That's something I do with spotlights made from emissives (I have a set that I bough at DAZ). I attach them centred to a camera and use the camera-view to aim.
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Spots made from emissives. I really should look at the available light sets.
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This one I have:
www.daz3d.com/ultra-genesis-stβ¦
It contains different morphable "Spots" and "Rimlights"
And I'm using them quite often for interior and moody stuff.
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