[CodyKallas]

I am having the hardest time with studio lighting right now. For some reason I can not get any direction (spot) on my lights. They just wash across everything. Instead of a nice gradient look. I have lit in the studio a bunch of times, but these lights just are not working how I would like. Does anyone have any pointers on this? I have seen the post of building the spot light. But there has to be a better solution then going through such an elaborate process. I love using maxwell for nice interior lighting, but that is more of a wash approach. But studio lighting I need to spot on some highlights and such. Like I said, I am just looking for some pointers.

Thanks

Cody

[Mihai]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMN3EsVShh4

With yours truly. Watch from min 8 to about 15, but there are some other infos relating to lighting in general which can be interesting to know about.

[CodyKallas]

Awesome an hour and half on studio lighting. Wish I would have found this sooner. Thanks a lot Mihai

One question, I am sure I will have more but one of them, on that spotlight you created. You have that emitter shooting up into the cylinder then the light reflects back out correct?

Thanks

[Mihai]

No, it still shoots down. If it shoots up, it's own geometry would block most of the light and make the render not so efficient. The idea here is that a regular emitter surface will emit light 180 degrees from its surface so you have to constrain this spread somehow. So this approach gets close to how a real spotlight would work and how you can focus the beam by moving the emitter surface up further into the spotlight cylinder.

[CodyKallas]

Yeah with a little testing I got it working. Thanks for the tutorial and tips. They really helped.