LightWorks Sun

[Dwight]

Has anyone managed to make a soft shadowed LightWorks sun uising the native sun rather than the SunObject?

If so, can you post the extreme comparison?

Lets just confirm that all of those sliders aren't actually connected to anything.

[Ben Odonnell]

Dwight,
Have tried it many a time but to no avail. It seems that if you want soft shadows you need to use the Lightworks sun object.

Cheers.
Ben

[Karl Ottenstein]

Ben wrote:
Have tried it many a time but to no avail. It seems that if you want soft shadows you need to use the Lightworks sun object.

Same experience.

Karl

[Dwight]

Okay.
Graphisoft says the effect is subtle.
Too subtle for me.
Just to confirm, since playing with light, is an exercise in my… book…

Left is hard sun 500% strength no ambient.
Right is sun as soft as it can be made, 500% strength no ambient.

Can anybody see a difference?

[fuzzytnth3]

If you overlay the two renderings in Photoshop by copying and pasting onto a new layer. Then use the Invert command in the Adjustment menu and finally change the top layer mode to Multiply then what is left is the difference between the two images.

As Graphisoft say it's a very slight difference

[fuzzytnth3]

Another way to look at the same image is to set the Layer mode to Difference

[Dwight]

????
what can this tell us about soft shadows?

[Ben Odonnell]

Dwight wrote:

Can anybody see a difference?

No.
Ok one can play with the images in Photoshop to see the very subtle differences, but to the naked eye you can't see any difference.

Cheers.
Ben

[Anonymous]

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[fuzzytnth3]

Dwight wrote:
????
what can this tell us about soft shadows?

What I think it shows is that the difference between the two images isn't in the shadows but elsewhere in the image.

If there was absolutely no difference between the two images you would see just a black image when overlaid as I have done. As it is you are seeing some parts of the image and therefore Graphisoft are correct there is a difference albeit not in the shadows and it's blooming hard to spot