I've developed this figure to appear attractive purely from the smooth shaded preview. Once I'm much happyer with it in this state I will invest more time on surface detailing.

For now all I want to do is output this scene for print as a poster, to put up here in my studio for inspiration. Unfortuetly I do'nt know how to setup the Output Options to replicate the Smooth Shaded Preview! And, because Poser 5 will only allow a 1008 pixel document window, the only way I can think of aquiring a file large enough is with Photoshop. But that is getting away from 3D and may not result in as fine an image as if I were to export the same size file straight from Poser 5.

= )

Can't you just copy the picture and save it?

Whoopsie, just read that you wanted better resolution for a poster...

I don't know about P5... but in PPP, I'd probably try rendering a 1 frame animation at "current display settings", rather than the render settings... I think... can't try it right now... at work

It also works in Poser 5. Make a single frame animation using display settings.

But the current display setting will only allow for a 1008 pixel document. How do I render current display settings at about 8000 pixels? I tried Animation>Make a Movie..., but that did'nt give me an option to increase the output size, even though I changed the movie output settings just prior. = )

you should be able to do that by rendering with the "use texture maps" and "use bump maps" options deselected. though I'm at work right now also, so I can't test it. Evo

or basically just deselect every option on the right except antialiasing, unless you want to show the aliasing.

FWTempest - Oh OK, I see now, there is a Movie Output area, in Render Options/Movie Outpu Settings... that I can enter my nimation size in! But then when I go to make a movie I notice it says Blur=.5. Wht is that? = )

I guess it's the blurr motion effect. Set it to 0 if you don't want any blur. Compiler

I set it up for a 8902x6120 render. Its been putting for about a couple hours now. I've opened my Task Manager several times, but it always says Poser 5 is Running. How long might this take? I've a Celeron 700 with 256MBs RAM. I let it go overnight, but then... = )

Moderatley complex 1024*768 Firefly renders take my Pentium IV 1,5 GHz 4-7 hours to complete. The best part is when you wake up and find out that the image froze at half-way and you have to redo the render all again... Never ask to much of your computer or your wife and thou shall be happy, I guess... Good night Compiler

This is a bit odd, but I can seems to get a 4000 pixel image in or around 1 min, but try 6000 or 8000 and, even with the virtual memory switched from 300-600 to 1000-2000MB(On HD1) and 0-0 to 2000-3000(On HD2), Poser 5 still crashes! = )