[Solved] How do I change lighting ?

[justlikesang]

Hello, I've been doing some hand painted textures in 3d coat and I am aware of the lighting using the primary lighting and ambient lighting intensities. However, when I want to work on the bottom side of this dragon I can't seem to figure out how to light them up. It is always darker than the top of the dragon and angle lighting adjustments won't cut it. Attached are the pictures, please help!

 

 

 

[justlikesang]

Hello, I've been doing some hand painted textures in 3d coat and I am aware of the lighting using the primary lighting and ambient lighting intensities. However, when I want to work on the bottom side of this dragon I can't seem to figure out how to light them up. It is always darker than the top of the dragon and angle lighting adjustments won't cut it. Attached are the pictures, please help!

 

 

 

[philnolan3d]

At the top of the viewport there are three buttons you can drag to adjust the lighting. Contrast, brightness, and direction.  Maybe rotating the light will help.

[justlikesang]

Hi Phil, thanks for the swift reply. Yes I've tried the three light buttons for a while but it doesn't seem to help lighting the bottom. Do I need an AO map of some sort perhaps? All i have is normals for the texutres..

[philnolan3d]

Hmm. Have you tried the different options in the View menu? Like Smooth Shade, Relief Only, Flat shade, etc. Maybe someone else here will have a solution for you.

[justlikesang]

Yeah I tried all those modes as well, but still not able to figure it out. Much appreciated for your help though!

[ryivhnn]

Tried double clicking on the contrast icon? It does something with the lights.

One contrast mode looks like:

The other one looks like:

Stab in the dark, if you're in ortho view does not being in ortho view help at all? Sorry I'm not very good at this either XD

Edited June 21, 2016 by ryivhnn

[philnolan3d]

It that's interesting, that must be something new.

[justlikesang]

Oh awesome!  I never bothered to look at the description of the contrast but now I see it. I don't think making it orthographic made any difference to me, but the contrast made a huge difference. Thanks a bunch rivyhnn!

[ryivhnn]

@justlikesang glad it helped!

@philnolan3d I accidentally found its tooltip in the latest version when I was bumbling around learning things the way I learn things I'm only new myself though (as of a point version or so ago).

[philnolan3d]

On 6/21/2016 at 8:30 PM, ryivhnn said:

@justlikesang glad it helped!

@philnolan3d I accidentally found its tooltip in the latest version when I was bumbling around learning things the way I learn things I'm only new myself though (as of a point version or so ago).

Yeah I saw the tooltip after you mentioned it. Very interesting!