Most of contrast control I get is through the Atmosphere Editor of the viewer proper, what Black Dragon is doing for me is making the shadows smoother in the transition from light-to-shadow and any ambient light being in the Atmosphere editor (to control how dark or light the shadow is.) If you are referring to shadow contrast, that setting seem to be affected by the "Lens Flare" and the Atmosphere settings than the actual shadow settings in the BD Sidebar. Though in my "After Hours" image, I attached my light-plot system and really fiddles with light and in all aspects from brightest to darkest, the shadows seemed to be perfect. Though I have been playing a LOT with lighting, even using the Lens Flare once and then tweaking it to get just the subtlest of glow out of the stage lights in my Ballet image. For shadows, the settings have to do with the resolution at each distance and the defaults of those seem to work well for me and I suspect there is no real reason to change them unless you have an infinity or otherwise long-shot background that has shadows (My "Sunrise" image had water, so shadows were moot in that). I have pretty much the same settings as you do. I'd love to know what settings other people are using for shadows! ok? Recognizing, of course, that one is likely to vary one's settings somewhat depending upon context, Windlight, desired effect, and so forth? Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) is set as follows, to what I think are mostly default values: ( Does this mean that the first set of four settings applies only to "natural" i.e., Windlight settings? And to point lights?) ( Am I correct in thinking that these represent definitions for the settings that follow, measured in metres from the camera?) All of the " Misc Options" are selected except for Flycam Controls. I have not used Depth of Field, Motion Blur, or Lens Flair. Screen Space Ambient Occlusion is on, as are Screen Space Reflections and Tone Mapping (the latter is set to "Linear"). In the Machinima sidebar, Light Softening is on, Shadows are set to "Projectors," and both Volumetric and Directional Volumetric Lighting are on. Most of my display settings under "Preferences" are at default, with the exception of complexity for Object and for Sky, both of which are at "Ultra." I've added no projectors or point lights. It was shot at 6016 px width, and then cropped and resized for here. I thought I'd get into more specifics about shadow, because they (and light) are probably (for me) the most important element of composition. Once I get that, then I'll play with the sidebar sliders. Though, when I am setting up for a "shoot", then I'll open the sidebar settings and turn off Region Windlight, then play wuth the Atmosphere tool to get the lighting I want. I'm mostly going with default settings on everything. There's also the old guides/explanations for movement, complexity and alpha blending/masking NiranV Dean on colour profiles in Black Dragon and NVidia NiranV Dean with a really informative post on UI "secrets" and key combinations for things like defaults: NiranV Dean on why Black Dragon is not available on Mac (and why Macs suck generally): Seicher Rae on Black Dragon performance, Global Light settings, and being stalked by Maddy: NiranV Dean side-by-side comparison of light, shadow, and colour in Firestorm and Black Dragon: Nalates Urriah on texture thrashing and importing Windlights into Black Dragon: NiranV Dean on complexity and performance (rather technical): NiranV Dean's visualization of tiling in Firestorm: NiranV Dean on tiling, ambient occlusion, and performance on Black Dragon: NiranV Dean on tiling, texture thrashing and memory, and settings for light softening and shadow: NiranV Dean on the different versions of Black Dragon, key controls, shadow settings Momo's side-by-side comparison of Firestorm and Black Dragon. Taya on some of the advantages of using Black Dragon: To start with, here are links to a number of pertinent and useful posts that have already been posted in "How Does Your Avatar Look Today":Įva Knoller on using Black Dragon to reposition entire avatar from "Avatar Center" For instance, I'd love to see people's settings for things like light and shadow! I have been thinking that it would be useful to have a single place to share the many insights and questions many of us might have about using Black Dragon to photograph avatars.
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