OK I don't have much intelligence on this BUT, I only use GI and GR for poser figures in Vue5I. The difference in the skin texture is unbelievable!!!!!! It seems and I stress the seems since I am a rank amatuer on this, that the standard model in Vue uses very harsh lights. It is as if there is a single digit light strength that would bring out the potential of the skin texture but it is impossible to achieve that number you are either too strong and blown out or too weak and greyed out so that the posers either look ghoulish or dead. However, with GI or GR and ambient light set very far to the left the skin textures are simply fantastic and the better the texture the better they look. DMs Denise and Orion's latest look fantastic in my very humble opinion. I have been adding lights to the GI and GR enviornment and once again the textures loose detail as the light seems to saturate and smooth them out. I am just now doing a series of renders with ambient light all the way to the left and some very soft lights say 50 strength on a spot just to unbalance the lighting a bit and create some interest. I was seeing some amazing GR work with Carrara and was about to invest when I spent a whole day doing GR in Vue - no need to get Carrara now - Vue's GI and GR as has been stated before - are really excellent once one plays with the settings for a while (in my case many months) thanks so much for the thread. Oh and see the results in my gallery, my last post included every render and lighting setting I could think of so you can see what the effects are - be warned - nude vickies abound !!!

Message edited on: 09/04/2005 18:24