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Thought I would see if I could create some studio lights to mimic real ones used in product and such photography. These are simple meshes designed to replicate real studio lights.
So first the brolly. Using just one brolly - material is set to diffuse white Next one is Two brollies - one is emitting at half power Then 2 brollies again - this time the material is a reflective metal - al.nk to simulate a shiny reflective brolly This one is a large softbox And finally striplights - 4 of them

I really like the softness of the shadows. Especially for the lagresoftbox one.
Really nice.

Impressive!
Are the emitters facing inside the boxes?
Would love to recreate such a setup for my studio renders

PureSpider wrote:Impressive!
Are the emitters facing inside the boxes?
Would love to recreate such a setup for my studio renders

The Softbox and striplights are just a simple box with one face given a diffuse/transparent material - all other faces are black - the lightsource, circled in red, is a simple plane with a emitter material. The reflectors are basically half a sphere with the end face of a cylinder for the light source. This method of creating a 'real' studio light gives a nice diffuse and soft light source - you can vary the softness by sizing the light emitters or increasing/decreasing distances

So I assume the transparent material is the green face in that one screenshot (Striplights.jpg) of yours?

PureSpider wrote:So I assume the transparent material is the green face in that one screenshot (Striplights.jpg) of yours?

Yes thats correct - its a diffuse material with transparency on

Nice tests. Bookmarked for reference.

How about diffuse_transmitter planes... to smooth lighting I suppose ?

Great demonstration !

(linked here from SILK thread)
Hey Doug would it be possible to get some of these scenes hosted for everyone to use? It's the kind of thing that would help people show off any little models they made. And it would be great if they were in different formats for the other supported 3d packages

We could also write some sort of tutorial on building the right type of studio setup depending on exactly which effect you want. I mean...I'm sure there are ways to tweak a studio setup to make things more interesting depending on the model

Soup wrote:(linked here from SILK thread)
Hey Doug would it be possible to get some of these scenes hosted for everyone to use? It's the kind of thing that would help people show off any little models they made. And it would be great if they were in different formats for the other supported 3d packages

Sure but I only have access to Blender - someone else can convert?
I'll see what I can do over the next week or so

Or you could just give instructions on how to build each of them? I mean...then someone with another package could build a "clone"?

Looks to me like the first one is a uvsphere cut in half an duplicated, with a scaled down circle as an emitter and the bottom is a cylinder cutinhalf with the ends removed and the bottom edge extruded out. I mean its not like having the scene ready made but its buildable in 5-10 min tops?

Borgleader wrote:Or you could just give instructions on how to build each of them? I mean...then someone with another package could build a "clone"?

Looks to me like the first one is a uvsphere cut in half an duplicated, with a scaled down circle as an emitter and the bottom is a cylinder cutinhalf with the ends removed and the bottom edge extruded out. I mean its not like having the scene ready made but its buildable in 5-10 min tops?

I have already done this - see this earlier post in this thread except this earlier post also has images to illustrate how

Doug Armand wrote: The Softbox and striplights are just a simple box with one face given a diffuse/transparent material - all other faces are black - the lightsource, circled in red, is a simple plane with a emitter material.
The reflectors are basically half a sphere with the end face of a cylinder for the light source.
This method of creating a 'real' studio light gives a nice diffuse and soft light source - you can vary the softness by sizing the light emitters or increasing/decreasing distances

Yes yes you described the scene with the materials for each part, I gave modeling instructions-ish

I've created a blender file with 3 different lights and 4 different studio light setups
Please note that this is using Blender 2.49a, Indigo V2.2.12 and Blendigo 2.2 stable - if it doesn't work for you first make sure your using at least these versions.

http://cid-dee301fc4ac2d000.skydrive.li ... etup.blend

The lights are on different layers - the pictures below show the setup and what layers are needed to be enabled for them.

SoftBox Reflector Brolly 2x Reflector Brollies Ringlight
In a few days I will render all the variants of this scene as well as describe how I modelled them in Blender - very easily - but too busy rendering another image atm