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The Uberarea lights were not working properly in DA 4.5.0.114, but that was fixed for the Beta release version 4.5.0.137

JimmyC_2009 - 22 September 2012 10:57 AM

The Uberarea lights were not working properly in DA 4.5.0.114, but that was fixed for the Beta release version 4.5.0.137

I do not Run Betas. I’ll wait on 5.

I have been using it with no problems at all, it is just a lot of bug fixes for the previous version.

The IG lights work beautifully in it now, I wouldn’t let the ‘Bata’ tag put you off.

JimmyC_2009 - 22 September 2012 11:04 AM

I have been using it with no problems at all, it is just a lot of bug fixes for the previous version.

The IG lights work beautifully in it now, I wouldn’t let the ‘Bata’ tag put you off.

I’ll check out the Fix list and think about it some. I had issues with RC2 so I’m a bit leary of Betas.

I can’t look at this DSDefault shader light at the moment to see what exactly it is. Doesn’t sound light Area lighting to me.

If it is an Area light plane then make sure the normal is pointing in the opposite direction to where the light is pointing. You can see this by choosing the Translation Tool and see which way the Green (I think) arrow is pointing.

ty to all, i will try to reinstall and put this beta these days (dont have much time now) and respond later.

Shadows do not and have never (as far as I know) worked properly in the DzDefault Shader lights.  If I recall, the shadow brick isn’t actually connected to anything…:roll:

No need to reinstall because of that issue…but the other bug fixes are probably worth it.

Are you sure that your render setting isn’t set to preview mode?

trollderiu - 22 September 2012 05:43 AM

- Plane as ground with all displays on.

Exactly how did you create this? Just using the built-in primitives? And how many segments did you make it in? I’m trying to remember a post from a few years ago on the old forums, if you make a large plane primitive that’s all one polygon, you might have problems with textures, shadows, and a couple other things. Give the plane a few segments, 5 or 10 or so, and it’ll work better.

mjc1016 really?, I’ll try with other lights :/ ... thats means I have to buy it?

isn’t set to preview mode and the plane is small and have segments (primitive).

You don’t have to buy any light yet. You can begin with the standard lights provided by DS which do cast shadow. You can find them in the create menu

You can also use Omnifreaker’s uberarealights. They are mesh emitting light and they also cast shadows. They just don’t work like the other lights and all their parameters is in the surface tab instead of paratmeter tab for standard light

The last interesting light is Uberenvironnement which adds ambiant occlusion, HDR lightning and a bit of indirect lightning

Takeo.Kensei - 23 September 2012 04:54 PM

You don’t have to buy any light yet. You can begin with the standard lights provided by DS which do cast shadow. You can find them in the create menu

You can also use Omnifreaker’s uberarealights. They are mesh emitting light and they also cast shadows. They just don’t work like the other lights and all their parameters is in the surface tab instead of paratmeter tab for standard light

The last interesting light is Uberenvironnement which adds ambiant occlusion, HDR lightning and a bit of indirect lightning

Those lights are not the same as the shader lights that have the shadow problem.

And yeah, I tested the default shader lights…still not working properly.

Takeo.Kensei - 23 September 2012 04:54 PM

You don’t have to buy any light yet. You can begin with the standard lights provided by DS which do cast shadow. You can find them in the create menu

Thats embarrassing, Creating cameras and primitives and don’t see this lights :S ...
that’s it. not perfect but it works great for what I want

sorry for this and thank you very much to all

Later I will watch the rest of lights you advise.

I have nearly perfected using the omnifreaker uber volume shaders (dust, cloud, etc.)  & a spotlight to get shadow beams/ light rays- good!
I have installed DAZ 4.5 and can’t get them to work- bad!

I have tried loading an old scene from 4.0 that got the results I like and I’ve tried creating a completely new scene with all current lights, figures, uber sphere, etc.

Any thoughts, tips, tricks on how to get them working again?

Thank you,
Jay

The image below is from 4.0

There was a bug that affected Uberarea lights in DS 4.5.0.114, which was fixed in the Beta release 4.5.0.137.  You can buy it from the store for $0.0 like the other versions.