Oh Face_off - forgot to tell you. In this picture, my back light was getting shadow from one figure to another. So I cheated and turned it to no shadows so I could get the Blinn highlight on all four figures. Of course with her left hand over her thigh, it shouldn't glow like that, nor would it if I had the shadows turned on for it. Also, I really wasn't working closely with Jessi. Her texture sucks, as we've both pointed out before. I just threw her in to show the improvement, while never promising that the result for Jessi was acceptable. However, I think V3 is looking more believable. Still not photo realistic. But the improvement over the original is clear, right? Personally, I don't think that Firefly *** can *** render photorealistically. I've played with POV-Ray a lot in the past and radiosity has IBL and AO beat hands down. I've done a couple renders of poser scenes in pov - the workflow is a pain. I'm trying to find ways to make Firefly generate believable images. After all, it is a lot faster to try out ideas with Poser/Firefly alone. Plus I like the challenge. One of these days I may take these figures into POV-Ray, work out all the tedious conversions of textures, and let the thing chug away for 8 to 10 hours. I bet the results would, indeed, be nearly photographic.

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