Thanks for your message and kind words.

I’m not sure of the advantage to stretching the dome along one axis, but you should be able to just stretch the sphere using the object tool. After all the setup is simply an array of lights that are cloned across the spheres vertices.

However my suggestion would be to add extra lights into the scene. I use the light dome myself, but I will 99% of the time add in additional key and fill lights.

thanks
Tim

Love the lightdome! I have used it for a great number of stills and animations, and have some beautiful results. I seem to have little to no problems with flickering–if I do, I usually adjust materials and shading (especially any filteres/shaders where I have flipped the UV coords.) and that takes care of it (but of course resolution may be a factor).

Further, I just wanted to say that any and all tutorials you have done are of immeasurable value to me. I have only been working with/studying C4D for about 6 months, and have learned a great deal in that period, but my knowledge curve inevitably spikes when I work through your instructionals. [And I believe I am in a large majority in this opinion… a few weeks ago I read somebody’s post discussing you (I think it might have been on a site/thread discussing or in connection with FXPHD). He made the statement that you have “a frightening amount of knowledge” as it pertains to both CG and C4D. I would firmly second that.

I do have one quick question regarding the lightdome….

I am currently trying to render a still. The scene is difficult to light in the manner I wish as it is quite deep along Z (and GI would take days). I have used your lightdome extensively and especially love the color gradient feature, and it would be perfect if I could use it to light this scene. Question: would the lightdome (or rather any Xpresso functionality contained within) break if I made the dome editable and elongated same along Z? I didn’t want to try it as it is set up as a preset in a specific way with a icon, etc. and would prefer no to reinstall. I appreciate any response….(unfortunately, I have only scratched the surface with respect to Xpresso, or I think I would be able to resolve this on my own).

thanks
altug

The setup already uses a texture for the light colour, so adding an image instead will work no problem at all, as you have already discovered by the sound of things. I have no problem with you sharing the file, as long as you credit me and keep a link to the helloluxx blog.

Thanks
Tim

Cheers,
Jo

So it’ll be the same principle. It will create 60 lamps around the scene but instead of connecting a gradient node, you connect an HDR images, and it juste pick the color at this point, and cast the same color whit the lamps created !

What do you think about it ?

Leo