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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Tool
Addon Tags: Comic, Scenic
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Soft Lamps

Description
Here it is. You ever go on the Artwork or Screenshots section and wonder how on earth people get their amazing lighting?
Its all this, the soft lamps tool. Created by Vioxtar and NeatNit, all credit goes to them, i'm simply the uploader.

This is the latest up to date version as of 1/4/2020 and will be continued to update if and when fixes come out.

Tutorials will be linked at a later date but here is the complex one by Vioxtar himself:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OQ5nK11qKaOCNBT66Jd8Njf8vOkCmZe8Eywmn7JT2z4/edit

and here are the BASIC instructions:

1. Spawn the soft lamp, the same way you would spawn a lamp
2. Hold C (or whatever button you assigned to the context menu), right-click the newly created Soft Lamp, and select Edit Properties. From here, experiment.
3. Console command for capturing a poster is poster_soft. It uses the same syntax as the normal poster command.

tags:
soft lamps
rendering
poster
scenebuild
posing
pose
scene build
lamp
lamps
lights
light
shadows
shadow
godrays
godray
god ray
god rays
volumetrics
volumetric
Popular Discussions View All (16)
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Jul 10, 2024 @ 10:21am
Glitches
Sheef
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Jul 13 @ 9:34am
How does one go about using this with artificial lightsources?
Fluffypaws, The Fluffy Pawed
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Aug 5, 2024 @ 3:20am
Are the instructions the same for paint.net
Willspowered
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PenolAkushari  [author] Sep 5 @ 9:20pm 
@bulkmoerls your render process looks like poster_aa is enabled, and console output for render result seems to say it's set to true. godrays render doesn't seem to like aa as it uses different source for getting picture, which seems to break it. put "poster_aa 0"
evil ass scheming royal advisor Sep 5 @ 4:01pm 
Weird, will keep looking into this. Appreciate it!
PenolAkushari  [author] Sep 5 @ 3:46pm 
renders get to garrysmod/screenshot folder iirc, inside game files that steam will take you to through game properties window

i'll check the video after several hours once i get the ability to do so
bulkmoerls Sep 5 @ 3:37pm 
oh and for the guy below me that is supposed to respond to @penolAkushari
bulkmoerls Sep 5 @ 3:35pm 
https://youtu.be/8hblNsoNi_Q
that will show proof
evil ass scheming royal advisor Sep 5 @ 3:31pm 
Hey! I imagine you get this one frequently, but where do the renders for poster_soft save to? I was unable to find mine in the GMod screenshots folder.
PenolAkushari  [author] Sep 3 @ 8:36am 
you can upload it as unlisted on youtube if you can. i guess issue may be within the soft lamp settings, given that you don't have aa or additive turned on
jack Sep 3 @ 8:35am 
Oops, forgot to mention the passes, but I also varied the pass numbers from 1-5 to see if it made any difference it still just rendered black.
jack Sep 3 @ 8:33am 
Yeah, fully black. The settings I used was pretty much setting the accuracy between 500-1000 (like you said, maybe I just had to mess around with the settings). I varied the quality from 1-3 to see if it made any difference and it didn't. Even tried changing Soft lamp settings, though to be fair I didn't change the default settings too much. And sure, I'll record it when I'm back on GMod again. Just let me know how I could send it over.
PenolAkushari  [author] Sep 3 @ 8:01am 
and it's fully black when doing a render? what's the settings for godrays render? also, would you be able to record how it happens somehow? as i think i'll need to see what's going on to be able to tell what's up