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Noticed a budget ($) scene ''Sci-fi deadlock'' by 1971s on Rendo. Included detailed templates...
As usual, I un-zipped into an external folder, titled per zip archive and now holding the run-time ''tree''. Added product piccies etc.
Couple of odd things. Scene is a CR2 ''character'', not a PP2 ''prop''. Calls a monolithic 2.5 MB OBJ with 20 ''diffuse'' textures, some mapped. Upside, they have the same names as the materials that call them. I like that...
Pointed my Poser at it via ''library'', added to scene. The base was exactly a ''poser unit'' thick. I turned off default ground, lowered model.
Textures did not Auto-load. After puzzling a-while, I realised I had to find and drag in its MC6 MAT. Looked better, but very dark as Poser lights were all outside.
There were three materials with matching orange textures labelled ''light'', ''plasma1'' and ''plasma2'' that might offer illumination. Setting their ''ambient'' to bright yellow and ''super-dialling'' to 10 made them glow white on ''preview''. A quick test-render, Superfly, progressive, 14 pixel-samples, showed they had enough luminous surface area to light scene.
While trying to ''improve'' scene, I made mistake of using the ''diffuse'' texture image for the luminaires'' ambient texture. Sorry, that chokes super-ambient effect. Just set to generic hue, eg yellow, dial to 10...
( I''m still struggling to use ''emission'' via additional ''nodes''... )
As usual, more pixel-samples give a better render. After several test-renders, I ran it with 64 to fair effect...
Two quirks: There''s no ''front wall'', so more like a stage / studio set-up. Also, there''s a neat hatch at top of that ladder, but no matching hole in roof... ;-) |
