V Vu u ll v va a ii n n November 2009
ART with and without LOVE
Vol. 1, No. 3
Win dli gh t THE ART & SCIENCE OF LIGHTING in SL
Any self respecting photographer uses Windlight settings at every change in condition for the shot. As an example: you might want the shadows falling somewhere else. Maybe the sun would be more advantageous over there. How about some variations in the background? More clouds? More whispy? How about a different coloured sky? As you can see, the art of photography is not just picking out the right angle. The myriad amount of option settings available to us through the Windlight interface (World > Environment Settings > Advanced Sky) are complex, Nuclear Bomb grade technology fer sure, but if you pull a slider in just the right way.... It’s Heaven. Of course, you have to be a true geek. I have no idea what all the bells and whistles do in this interface, I hardly ever save any presets since everything will have changed by the time I revisit the exact same place. The effects that can be created at the moment are also those things which can’t be REcreated. Most, if not all my best shots are taken in the “wild”. Not only does this help the processing time if all your effects are applied inworld, PhotoShop just isn’t capable of producing such a startlingly rich, colourful, and varied palette as that of Second Life. Having features such as Dynamic Shadowing (for the Snowglobe viewer) is just so much more cake. If you haven’t tried the Snowglobe viewer, I highly recommend you do. The skin tones and gradations throughout most of the densely proportional polygons (such as the avi’s face) are so lifelike it’s scary. Vectoring the shadows as they play over the body is an alluring and sensual benefit one gains from staring through a lens all one’s life. The Windlight Settings for this most delicious feature of undulating shadows dancing over the human or landscape forms are a snap. I’ll try to illustrate by telling you how I set up the lighting for a shot. As you’ll notice from the Default settings, ironed into the Advanced Sky Editor window, the
two most important sliders in the whole bunch are: Sun/Moon Position and East Angle. Now, here’s the key to Windlight’s Shadow Settings. You have to understand how the sliders actually move the Sun in the 3D environment. The Sun/Moon Position slider moves the Sun from 0.000 (Due East Position on the horizon) to 1.000 which, surprisingly enough, is Due East too. If you’re clever enough to actually watch the Sun while you tweak the Sun/Moon Position you’ll notice it going from the East most point on the horizon to above your head (noon) then back down behind you to rest on the horizon at exactly Due West. At that very point, you’ll notice the slider is at 0.500 (or as close as your mouse can urge the slider to those mathematically precise numbers) and the Sun is 180 degrees opposite to the zero setting. Moving the slider above 0.500 sweeps the Sun beneath the sim all the way around again to 1.000 or Due East. So, to get your Sun shining as if it were rising naturally as does the big bad world, your Sun/ Moon Position settings can be 0.000 or 1.000. They’re exactly the same. It doesn’t matter whether the Sun is beneath the sim, lighting features will impact the avis and objects in the environment you are shooting. The East Angle slider moves the Sun around the horizon from start to stop. It too follows a 360 degree arc from 0.00 as the Eastern point to 1.00 all back around again. So, as the East Angle slider moves from 0 to 1 (0.500 being Due West) you can watch the Sun rotating around the Z axis (vertical). Knowing, and being able to sense what you are doing with your lighting source (the Sun) as you slide your sliders should give you a nudge towards experimenting. And, that’s only two settings in one tab. We’ll have to venture into deciphering the rest of the features in later editions. Play around with them all. The worst that can happen is you can be labeled as an artist.
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This is the hardest thing i’ve ever had to do. I’m sorry love but my files have been compromised. the pictures, the videos, the CDs, everything! don’t ask. all i can say is that it was an inside job. trust NO ONE. all you need to know is that i can’t protect you any more. you know i still love you madly. i don’t know what’s gonna come out. anything is possible. damn, i don’t even read my logs.never shoulda kept them. no matter, they’re all gone now. i have a good idea who it was and what she might want. yer not safe girl. no one’s safe! if i were you, i’d get outta town for a while. lie out in the sun on some sandy beach somewhere down south. you remember that little place in Rio? if i’m not there in a week my lawyer’s got an envelope for you. love EnCore
Ray Lamontagne | Forever My Friend who am i to tell her who am i to play god who am i to think i can go it alone something tells me girl this is bringing you down something tells me girl this is bringing me down we’ve been through some changes always seem to hold on lately it feels like you can’t take anymore something tells me girl this is bringing you down something tells me girl this is bringing you down forever my friend forever my love forever the woman that I’m thinking of i just think if we keep our hearts together i just think if we build on this trust that we have for one another baby we can make this last a life time
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who am i to tell her who am i to play god i don’t know just what’s for real anymore something tells me girl this is bringing you down something tells me girl this is bringing you down maybe i’m wrong, maybe i’m right maybe it’s the last thing you wanna hear me say i just think if we keep our hearts together i just think if we build on this trust that we have for one another maybe we can make this last a life time forever my friend forever my love forever the woman that I am thinking of i just think if we keep our hearts together i just think if we will build on this trust that we have for one another maybe we can make this last a life time
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