Reinvent your renders with GlowWorm, a Python-powered plug-in for Poser 6. GlowWorm gives Poser the power to do batch and multipass rendering, two important staples of the CG industry. Easy to learn and full of possibilities, GlowWorm brings professional rendering techniques to your home!

Features

• Poser 6 SR2 required.
• PC Only. (Mac version coming soon!)
• Work conveniently inside of Poser.
• Batch Rendering
• GlowWorm automatically renders and saves images while you do other things.
• Create render jobs from PZ3/PZZ files or directories.
• Force render and image output settings on render jobs.
• Render multiple passes per scene.
• Multi-Pass Rendering
• Gain precise control over your images without endless re-rendering.
• Compositing multiple passes allows you to make fast changes, add special effects and change lighting with high quality results.
• Animators can use multiple passes to make changes that would be difficult and time consuming to make otherwise.
• Choose from a variety of pre-configured passes, or add your own custom passes.
• Render special effects passes using Particles 2 figures.
• Create customized passes that employ ShaderSpider's partial shaders.
• Compatible with your favorite compositing software, from Photoshop to Project Dogwaffle to AfterEfects to the Gimp.
• Open-and-go interface that is easy to learn and "just makes sense."
• The GlowWorm suite contains:
• A library-launcher that can be used to conveniently access GlowWorm.
• Comprehensive documentation.
• Five (5) tutorials that range from basic to advanced.
• Five (5) examples of compositing multipass renders (PSD files), complete with commentary.
• All tech support for this product is handled by the creator. Please send all support related inquiries directly to Poseworks.

MPR Rendering and Compositing Links

• Rendering in Passes/Layers (Gnomon Workshop)
• 3D Compositing (3dRender.com)
• Jeremy's Ant (3dRender.com)
• Render Passes (WikiCG)
• Multipass Lighting and Photoshop Compositing (3DNY)
• Creating Depth of Field with Render Passes

Now this looks interesting. Perhaps even GREAT......

I'll definitely need to investigate this one. If this plug-in will do some of what I hope that it does.....it'll be more than worth the money.

Thanks!

Already went into my wishlist at Daz! And thanks for those links... very interesting reading.

Argh I wish they'd hurry up and release the DAZ Studio SDK so you could convert your stuff for it! ;) SnowS

I think you'll be most pleased with GlowWorm :-D As for the DS SDK, well, one day it will arrive.

This looks very cool. Are there any RAM limitations? Can you post a little more info about how the renders are composited?

GlowWorm uses Poser's render engines to do the grunt work, so any memory limits are the same as Poser 6. There's quite a bit more info about render passes over on the DAZ thread. I just put up a sample PSD of render passes composited to recreate a normal render--you are encouraged to download it and tinker with it! We're posting our render-pass-remixes of the file over on the DAZ thread. Hope that helps!