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Lights and BPR Question

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#1

Hey, I’m reacquainting myself with Zbrush after a hiatus away from the program and have forgotten some things.

I’m having an issue getting the preview from my BPR to resemble the lights I’ve set up in my scene. I have a rim light going on that is shown in complete shadow when I hit BPR.

Before BPR, showing my lights:

http://i.imgur.com/6sxWIjm.png

After hitting SHFT-R to BPR:

http://i.imgur.com/53uPhqK.png

(I’d just post the images here but I keep getting an invalid file error)

Thanks in advance for the help.

#2

your rim light is in shadow, hence the darkening of the lightsource during render time. Increase the strength of the light.

#3

Doing that lightens the shadowed area more, but can’t seem to get the rim light as bright as in my viewport. I’m just wondering because I was following along with a dvd, in which the lighting didn’t change much from the view on screen to the BPR. Yet mine looks so different. (Though I suppose he could have been using a different version of Zbrush)

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out. Just had to use a different light in place of my main light source. The original one I was using had that shadow effect hardwired in.

Thanks