Ménage à quatre

Hi guys, I hope everyone is doing okay.

I'm fine, I've just started fleshing out my first animation in Officer Juru and Dr. Williams' scene. I hoping to get it and the rest of the scene done by next week then I can start on wrapping this update up. It's been a long one, I hope you all find it to have been worth the wait.

I spoke a little about mesh lighting in Daz studio last week. This week I'll talk about Daz's own lights.

I tend to use these occasionally, and then just the spotlights or point lights.

So as with mesh lights the color setting changes the color of the light.

Intensity and photometric mode I don't change.

Spread angle, for spotlights, changes how wide the spotlight's cone is in degrees.

Beam exponent controls how evenly the light is spread across the cone, a higher exponent the brighter and more concentrated the light will be towards the center of the cone.

Light geometry allows you to give the light geometry instead of just being a single point. This is very useful as a tiny point of light will give very sharp and unrealistic shadows. I never leave this as point.

Height and width change the size of the above geometry. Larger lights create softer shadows.

Render emitter will show or hide the light so it is invisible. It doesn't change it's light output though. Note you will still be able to see the light in reflections.

Luminous Flux is how bright the light will be while temperature is the light's color temperature in kelvin, higher is more blue, lower is more red.

Not much to it really.

For this week's custom renders the lucky patron wanted to see a foursome with Nikki, Karen and Haley and I guess he couldn't wait for the next update. Well I thought what the hell, why not. It's just a single setup but from a few different angles.

I hope you all enjoy and that's all I have for you this week.

Thank you all as always and take care.