DaQuestioner opened this issue on Jan 13, 2006 ยท 34 posts
wolf359 posted Sat, 14 January 2006 at 10:03 AM
Attached Link: posers native toon renderer
*" Hey, at least I'm upfront about the cost. That $4479 will put you in the cat bird seat as far as rendering goes - a wise investment (if, as I said, you can afford it.)"* I dont Doubt that MAX/Vray etc. is a good high end PRO level CG suite But as typical of these threads you here evangelising **YOUR** personal Dream render Set up While totally ignoring what the guy says he wants to accomplish So far the only thing missing from this discussion is that person, whom i wont name, telling use we dont need other renderers at all and we should learn to tweak,massage,optimize our scenes and render in sections in "firefly "and paste together in post BLAH BLAH BLAH DaQuestioner wants a fairly simple alternative to posers Slow firefly render engine to render stills of poser figures . I am with him on this as far as i cna tell he is not looking to re render the defense of "Helms deep " from Peter jacksons "Lord of the rings" :-) Opera: Honestly im NOT very impressed with Carraras native toon renderer And frankly this is one the the areas where I think poser is actaully underrated (SEE link) but carrara comes with five network render node liscenes for you own little render farm and has true HDRI/GI,has batch render of scenes on a single seat you can have MUTIPLE scene files open at once it has FBX so i can exchange scenes between Carraa LW/MAX/MAYA CinemaD4 and is easy to use and is faster than fire fly will ever be poser shaders?? frankly if its that important to you to have Faceoffs python skin shaders in every scene than stick with poser and deal with firefly. as an animator I dont have as much a need for Sub surface scattering and i already have TRUE subsurface scattering in the advanced render of my Cinema4D 9.2 studio bundle where I use the **FREE** interposer plugin to bring in propely textured poser scenes from exported object files