operaguy: "Isn't it PhotoRealisticTexture IN, HyperRealisticRender OUT?"

Not exactly - but it can get you a long way there.

A figure needs to look good from different angle and under a variety of different lighting conditions.

A lot of what give a character "reality" is the way the specular highlights are handled (and modified by bump / displacement maps) and the subsurface scattering effect of the shade (Poser 5 doesn't really have this out of the box).

There's a lot of "real" looking Poser work out there. But I've never seen Poser 5 produce a full color, well lit image that I had trouble distinguishing from photograph.

Message edited on: 03/15/2005 19:14