UH-OH

We got sunlight on dynamic hair.

Taking a cue from ren mem's post, I tried again. Initially, I had thrown away the defaulted-in distant thinking I wanted GI without anything else. When this gave me only black, I DID throw a distant back in, but left it far away. More black.

This time I move the distant light right over her head and jacked the intensity up to 2132%. The photon count is 5000. No indirect light, only Sky Light.

Bingo.

This is the render without any attempt to improve anything, either in the Poser export or the Carrara settings.

This is "Kate Dynamic Hair" from Poser. I am going to fiddle some, then run a short animation overnight.

Hopefully there will be tricks involving moving the light around and tweaking settings to go after both quality of light and other desired effects, also with the goal of attacking the render time.

Rendertime: 11min, 46sec

AMD 3500+ 4GIG XPPro

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