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Lighting Product to Simulate REAL PLACES?

FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,219
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Is there an iRay or 3Delight lighting product that allows you to duplicate the sun position at different times of day and different days of the year, in different places on earth - not just a few places like the North Pole, or New York city, but ANY place you have the map coorinates for?

Thanks!

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  • wwtraviswwtravis Posts: 39

    Iray GeoLocator does not use coordinates (?)  but does have an extensive database of locations.

  • Phoenix1966Phoenix1966 Posts: 1,840

    DA Real World Lighting

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,212
    edited September 2018

    Studio has that built into the Environment. Use the Iray dome without a map and you can set the sun for anywhere at any time and any time of year or even any year. I do it when using my own images as a backdrop and set the Environment to the settings in the Exif file and then I point the render camera in the general direction I was facing, N,E,S,W or anything in between, and then start to add my characters or props. I also set the render camera to Y172, as I am 5'8" and focal length to match the lens I took the image with and then lock it so I can't change anything by mistake.

    There is also this in the store. I have it but haven't used it in a while.

    https://www.daz3d.com/iray-geolocator

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  • FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,219
    Fishtales said:

    ..............and set the Environment to the settings in the Exif file and then I point the render camera in the general direction I was facing, N,E,S,W or anything in between..............

    Thank you for his information!  What is the "Exif" file?  Is it something in your camera, or in DAZ STudio?  Or something else?

  • atozedatozed Posts: 77

    https://photographylife.com/what-is-exif-data

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,212
    edited September 2018

    The Exif file is generated by the camera that took the picture and can be viewed like a text file. If you view your picture with say IrfanView and click on Info then there is a pop up window that has a button at the bottom to view the Exif information embedded in the image file.

    The Exif info for the image is on the left of the screen capture.

    Click on image for full size.

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  • FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,219
    Fishtales said:

    The Exif file is generated by the camera that took the picture and can be viewed like a text file. If you view your picture with say IrfanView and click on Info then there is a pop up window that has a button at the bottom to view the Exif information embedded in the image file.

    The Exif info for the image is on the left of the screen capture.

    Click on image for full size.

    I didn't even know that information was generated when you take a picture!  I'll see if my camera does it too.  When you say "I do it when using my own images as a backdrop and set the Environment to the settings in the Exif file...."  which settings in the Exif file do you match in the Environment settings in DAZ Studio?

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,212

    All of them :)

    I set the latitude and longitude.

    Time of day and date and daylight saving or not according to the time of year.

    In Tone Mapping I set Shutter Speed, F/Stop and ISO to match.

    In the Camera settings I set Focal length, if using a small compact then multiply the focal length given in the Exif by 6 to get roughly the equivalent for a DSLR camera.

    I also lock the camera at Y Translate to 172 which in centimetres is roughly my eye height where the camera would have been.

     

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,996

    There is this too - https://www.daz3d.com/ig-iray-dawn-to-dusk

     

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