{"id":761,"date":"2007-12-10T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=761"},"modified":"2007-12-10T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T23:19:00","slug":"how-to-figure-out-lighting-in-daz-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/12\/10\/how-to-figure-out-lighting-in-daz-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"How to figure out lighting in Daz: Cheat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Finally, after months of tinkering with 3-D modeling, I finally rendered one of the basic units of an LHF comic: a fully stocked interior scene with a character. Below Chow sits in his study, reflecting. [Please note his poster of the Chinatown gate on the wall! I took that picture.] I overcame my difficulties with lighting by cheating. I stole some lights from a daytime exterior set. They were set not to cast shadows, so I added a spotlight over Chow&#8217;s table and set it to cast raytraced shadows. Oh yeah, I also removed the ceiling from Chow&#8217;s study so I could actually shine lights in because my skills are not sophisticated enough to illuminate a room with a roof. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a view of the full set below. Yes, I&#8217;m aware that Chow&#8217;s boot is running into the mat. But that&#8217;s never showing up in the final pictures, so I&#8217;m ignoring that comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ljcut\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/lhfextras\/daztests\/chowathome.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/lhfextras\/daztests\/chowathome2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Finally, after months of tinkering with 3-D modeling, I finally rendered one of the basic units of an LHF comic: a fully stocked interior scene with a character. Below Chow sits in his study, reflecting. [Please note his poster of the Chinatown gate on the wall! I took that picture.] I overcame my difficulties&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/12\/10\/how-to-figure-out-lighting-in-daz-cheat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to figure out lighting in Daz: Cheat.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}