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Oldschool Photostudio

After i got so much response about this setup, i thought i put it on the site. You can easily link External Render Controls to the Xpresso, so you can use it also with Maxwell, Final Render, Fry & Co. Also if you are not familiar with Arealights you should take that chapter of the cinema help for your goodnight storry.

Tips:

You have to adjust the light intensity, acording the sice of the area light, especially for the top light. If you stretch it to 100×100% you probably have to push the intensity over 200% to get a white floor. Of course the other lights add so make some tests till you got the right black to white balance.

The falloff of the back Lights (V0.4) also affects their respective specularity.

Changelog:

New in v0.4

- complete rebuild resulting in more stable Xpresso setup Xpresso
- back lights now rails on a curve which also can bemoved.
- Falloff control for the back lights
- Light control on/off switch

New in v0.3
- bugfix (visibility multiplier)
- sweetspot is now free or lets say not attachet anymore
- Top, Left and Right light can be slided alomg Z-Axis in percentage to hole background, this alows to move the sweetspot in front of the objects (below 25% and above 75% youl move out of the background area)

New in v0.2
- Top light size in percent to the hole Setup
- Light Color picker
- light intensity
- seen in reflection switch
- reflectivity multiplier
- easy gradient access
- add grain option (see cinema help for explanation)
- little cleanup
- 1 xpresso linking bug found an fixed

New in 0.1
- pefect Arc for background
- lights automatic aligned to background borders
- light on/off switching
- light quality controls

The control:

Some example images:

left 50% (not seen), right back 100% (500% reflective multiplier) top 100% (100% reflective multiplier). GI on on low settings about 1 minute rendertime.