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Update to the mk5 , that started all the way back here . Behind the scenes is here .

I made this for the Daz3D new user challenge. This month the intermediate version was to incorporate a gobo and/or gel into the lighting schema. I haven't really used either, preferring to use meshlights of varying temperatures shaped by geometry. Simple lights with gels/gobos are much cheaper computationally, at the cost of taking away flexibility from the camera. Stenciled gobos are definitely a tool I'm going to have to keep in mind going forward.

Speaking of colour temperature, iRay seems to have difficulty with sub-1000k lights. If you look at her hands in either mk5, there was a bunch of red grains. When I was prepping this version, I found that those went away when I raised the lowest temperature from 512k to 1024k.

Description
Update to the mk5 , that started all the way back here . Behind the scenes is here .

I made this for the Daz3D new user challenge. This month the intermediate version was to incorporate a gobo and/or gel into the lighting schema. I haven't really used either, preferring to use meshlights of varying temperatures shaped by geometry. Simple lights with gels/gobos are much cheaper computationally, at the cost of taking away flexibility from the camera. Stenciled gobos are definitely a tool I'm going to have to keep in mind going forward.

Speaking of colour temperature, iRay seems to have difficulty with sub-1000k lights. If you look at her hands in either mk5, there was a bunch of red grains. When I was prepping this version, I found that those went away when I raised the lowest temperature from 512k to 1024k.