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12:01 am
January 29, 2012
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Mike
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Post edited 9:45 pm – January 30, 2012 by Mike
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.ShareCG.com/v/59581…..Ds-Reality
I have always been impressed by the results some photographers can get using a camera mounted ring-light so I decided to make my own version of a ring-light for use with Reality.
The prop I made consists 4 surfaces: housing, reflector, tube-light and diffuser. I converted the material for the tube-light into a light source in the Reality interface and then played about with the material settings for the reflector and the diffuser.
The image below is a basic 2 light set-up: small Reality softbox beauty light that is in-line with the camera and model and pointing down at about 45deg and the home-made ring-light that is ‘attached to the camera lens’.
As soon as I figure out how to turn the ring-light into a shareable ‘product’ (at the moment it is just a .DAZ file) I will post it to ShareCG so others can play with it.
 
(edited to add additional images)
(edited to add download link)
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12:03 am
January 29, 2012
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Pret-A-3D
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That's a great idea!
Thank you.
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12:07 am
January 29, 2012
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MotoTsume
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will this work in all versions of Reality?
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12:10 am
January 29, 2012
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Pret-A-3D
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3:53 am
January 29, 2012
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Nagus
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I tried to do this by using a taurus primitive and converting it into a light object via Reality, but I didn't get nearly as good of an effect as this. Please keep us updated, Mike! This would be very useful to many of us.
Thanks!
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7:02 am
January 29, 2012
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Kimberly58
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Will this be for sale at some point or is there a place we can download it? I would love to give this a try.
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Most people know me as Amethyst25!
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4:48 pm
January 29, 2012
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Mike
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Kimberly58 – I will be posting it on ShareCG shortly (with luck later this week). I will place a link to it here (assuming the site admin guys don't mind).
cheers, Mike
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9:48 pm
January 30, 2012
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Mike
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Here is the download at ShareCG:
http://www.ShareCG.com/v/59581…..Ds-Reality
The Readme/Instructions in the ZIP file are a little on the basic side so when I get a chance I'll post a few illustrated instructions to make things a little clearer.
If the Admin guys are ok with it then I'm happy to answer questions posted to this thread.
cheers
Mike
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8:40 am
January 31, 2012
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Pret-A-3D
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Thank you very much Mike, I posted a link to this article to both out FaceBook and Google+ pages.
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12:50 am
February 2, 2012
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Joe-B-Wan
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I posted a link to this over in the DAZ forum a few days ago. (I'm sure it got quickly lost there though)
Thanks for making this, Mike. I really wanna get a chance to play with it "soon".
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12:55 am
February 2, 2012
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Joe-B-Wan
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Paolo, I don't know if you've seen the Lightsmith Collection over in the sIBL Archive page here: http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html
I haven't looked at these, but I had been wondering for a long time if they could be used in a similar fashion to what Mike has done with his Ring Light. Any thoughts?
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2:02 pm
February 2, 2012
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Mike
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Your welcome guys. Please post an image if you get it working 
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2:21 am
February 3, 2012
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Mike
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7:44 am
February 3, 2012
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Pret-A-3D
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Thank you very much for posting the setup.
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9:53 am
February 3, 2012
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Pret-A-3D
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Joe-B-Wan, yes, those would work but they are hard to use because they don't map to the IBL sphere and they create gigantic lights. It would be easier to create a similar texture for the meshlight and use it there.
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10:26 am
February 3, 2012
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shimuzu
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Thank you Mike. I look forward to using it! All the best, Matt
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5:17 pm
February 8, 2012
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Mike
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Your most welcome Matt.
Cheers
Mike
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1:48 pm
April 28, 2012
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Post edited 1:52 pm – April 28, 2012 by mercedesk
Downloading this now, looks like a very usual tool… thanks Mike!
Just to make sure I'm doing this right… what path do I install this to? I'm using Daz Studio 4 Pro 
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