i really don't like poser's render... can U please tell me is it posiblle( photorealism) and how...with any plugin or something?

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depends what you call photo realism. Is this it???

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it really depends on what you want. I have some high end tools, but *most* of the people renders I do use the Poser renderer. It gets me what I want pretty quick most of the time. Mind you, I tend to do a lot of post-work... Texture and lighting are the most important cues for fooling the the eye into thinking something is "photorealistic". Otherwise, consider getting another rendering package like Vue (I use Bryce and 3D$ Max)

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I know you said P4, but P5 is much closer... although, I think with the correct light application, you can get very close with P4 as well. a p4 image..nudity flag: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=230713&Start=37&Artist=Dave%2DSo&ByArtist=Yes

I don't know about photorealism, but with the right texture you can come close. Here's P4/PP render.

guess it helps to include the image.

and since this is where I started this here is the cigareete, I am going to re-do the burning one this was just a test of the texture, and I think I spoke too soon abotu teh smoke cause I really suck at hand texturing LOL, I will work more on it after CSI. These are truly photo realistic as I broke up a smoke to scan the paper, stood on on end to get the tobacco, if you get close enought you can even see those lil blue lines ( I am a canadian so these are canadian smokes.)

Great looking smokes..do they still sell them in the flat flip top boxes up there ???

yup they still come in those packs...and uuuughhh! players extra light!...i guess that means the texture is ok tho huh?i can tell what brand they are?i'm a die hard export "A" man myself....the smoke definately needs a trans map....maybe invert the texture,and try that????

Probably the best photorealistic renderer you can get on the cheap is the Carrara 2.0 GI renderer. Dale LaRoy Splitstone

Canoma give great photo realistic results as well.... :) Rozilla, I actually smoke JPS but didn't wanna wreck one of my smokes so I grabbed one of the cigarette tubes that we have laying around for when we are broke. I am going to redo the burning one of course as the paper is drawn burnt, gonna actuall smoke half of one then grab the textures from that ( yellowing filter as well.)

I think you can get pretty close with Poser 4, only if you also use some photo-edit program (like photoshop) to add things like blur and highlights and stuff like that. My humble opinion. :)

I'll second that Dale. I love the Carrara 2.1 GI renderer. I do all rendering with it by now.

Sorry but maybe only in my gallery you find a REAL photorealistic characters, with poser as example ( with NO POSTWORK !! ) http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=144923 http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=144923 my gallery: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=andygraph

players...dag, what about some du mauriers? :)

How's this for realism? Straight out of Poser no Postwork and took about 30 seconds to render at 800x600 on a 733Mhz machine.

Nice render Ronstuff. What light set did you use?

Wow, ronstuff, what a beautiful render!

The light set is my own. It is a fairly a simple 3 white light studio set (Key, fill and backlight). Glad you like it :-}. A lot of the credit, of course goes to the very good texture which is Syyd's Zane, but even Syyd thought this was a good render and asked how I did it. For now, that will remain a secret until I finish a tutorial that I am working on ;-)

you go Ron! :-)