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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Tool
Addon Tags: Comic, Scenic
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1 Apr, 2020 @ 2:34pm
29 Aug @ 7:25am
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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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10 Jul, 2024 @ 10:21am
Glitches
Sheef
6
13 Jul @ 9:34am
How does one go about using this with artificial lightsources?
Fluffypaws, The Fluffy Pawed
1
5 Aug, 2024 @ 3:20am
Are the instructions the same for paint.net
Willspowered
660 Comments
PenolAkushari  [author] 11 hours ago 
is the lamp enabled? it still has to light up the scene as it relies on the lamp lighting up a plane
Avid Felony Committer 12 hours ago 
So godrays are still broken, every render comes out black, regardless of what I do.
PenolAkushari  [author] 29 Aug @ 7:29am 
@marislunch should be fixed now
0waterXcolour0 28 Aug @ 8:37pm 
Hey, god rays work again, thanks for updating Soft Lamps, I love this thing. I can't wait to see what I can do with these new tools.
PenolAkushari  [author] 28 Aug @ 8:10pm 
seems like it doesn't like that there's no button bound for the manager, check utilities tab, there should be "soft lamp manager" tab, inside of which you can bind a key to open it with. gonna get on fixing the error once i get time for it
marislunch 28 Aug @ 6:31pm 
Experiencing an issue:
lua/autorun/client/softlamp_manager.lua:766: bad argument #1 to 'GetPhrase' (string expected, got no value)
1. GetPhrase - [C]:-1
2. CreateMenu - lua/autorun/client/softlamp_manager.lua:766
3. ToggleMenu - lua/autorun/client/softlamp_manager.lua:813
4. v - lua/autorun/client/softlamp_manager.lua:873
5. unknown - lua/includes/modules/hook.lua:102
Divined  [author] 28 Aug @ 3:51pm 
Enjoy the update guys, hopefully the softlamp manager I put in helps some people out as well as the presets :) - mind you they're also shareable from softlamp_presets.txt in data/ if you'd like to either back them up or share them.
Skeletondudeofficial 28 Aug @ 1:51pm 
MASSIVE UPDATE DAMN:steamhappy:
PenolAkushari  [author] 28 Aug @ 12:45pm 
does it happen in some specific circumstances, always or not? perhaps you also could do a check whether there's some addon conflict by disabling other addons except for soft lamps, and see whether this issue will still happen, just to make sure there's nothing interfering
Sir Wyand 27 Aug @ 1:29am 
Lightsprayer often refuses to work, throwing the following error in console

[Soft Lamps] lua/includes/modules/vtrace.lua:209: bad argument #1 to '__add' (Vector expected, got nil)